looking back

I can't believe that one year will have passed since I entered this university. The examination day of English Literature Department was held on 6 February and I studied hard to pass this exam. I really made a lot of efforts in studying and completely did my best on the examination. Fortunately or necessarily I don't know, but my dream to study English at Sophia University realized and I really appreciated my efforts. I got a good lesson from examinations and I'm convinced now that efforts will surely bear fruits and what I do now is connecting with the future. I am really lucky to lean important things.

Every time I did my best when I was a high school student. I did what I loved like club activities with great efforts and did even what I didn't want to with efforts because I believed that everything has meaning that to be done and I can get good lessons from them. But now do I do my best? I can answer this question easily, NOT! I don't make efforts these days especially in studying.
I'm sure that my English Skills are improved but not greatly, and the rate of growing is apparently worse than that in preparing examinations. I don't study hard now and do what I want to. So my skills are not greatly improved. But in Writing Skill, I think that I could fairly improve it. In my high school there is no class to study writing, and I just learned reading and English grammar. So I couldn't write long English sentences and could write a few sentences. But now I can write this blog that consists of about 500 words in 30 minutes although my English is not so good. Anyway I became a better writer and I have a little confidence in myself that I can write essays in English (again, I don't know how good and bad my skill is!)

In Speaking Class, my teacher said to me that I speak English very well but you have some room for improving. Of course I know that I don't have enough skill to use English naturally and fluently at all, but I am happy to know that my teacher understand my efforts and value it. I noticed again that I can improve my English Skills more and should do my best in it. Although I am still not good at English I am happy because there still are some room for improving. I expect that I will use English naturally in the future.

To improve my English I want to watch English movies and novels. After tests are finished I have long spring vacation and much time to do what I want to. In summer vacation I decided that I would read many English Books and I bought some novels too. But I was busy to do a part time job and club activities, and finally I couldn't read them. So I have many books to read even I won't buy now one. And also I want to read Japanese novels because these days I often notice that I am poor at Japanese expressions. I don't have enough Japanese vocabularies and I sometimes have difficulties in translating English into Japanese in Reading Class. And I have an interest in translating and use of words expressions, so I have to study hard Japanese too.
I have a lot of things to do! I want to do my best next year. Maybe I should do my best in the autumn semester tests and reports first :-(

Thank you Writing Skills Class!