Chapter 1&2

I personally find chapter one is easier for me to answer. Thus I would like to define my long-term goal and short-term goal.

Long-term Goal

My final goal is make world better for my siblings and future children. This is not specific and very vague but I was/am thinking about it all the time. I believe that if children are happy, the world become happy. I am still thinking what exactly I can do. One thing that I am thinking is making over 90 percent of literacy rate in all countries around the world. Also, building libraries in developing countries would help people to know the world where they are live in. Reading gives a lot of chances to people. If they lean to read, and then read to learn, their worlds increase those horizons.

This is very big goal. Many people try to achieve it for years but the issue still remains. To increase literacy rate in developing counties, people not only to build school and give education to children, they need to change people’s mind, their cultures and customs. That is toughest thing and it takes several generations. However, even how tough it is, this is one thing that I want to do.

Short-term Goal

1)    Get good grade for exchange study.

2)    Join internship

3)    Get good grade for graduated school

Those three goals are goals I face now. Firstly, I have to get good grades on this spring term to apply as exchange student. Secondly, I would like to work with adults, and want to know how people apply their passion to their work. And lastly, I would like to learn developing study in graduated school, thus I need to good grade for it.

About Yumi

Hello, everyone.

I took the class, Lessons in Leadership and the Dynamic You, because, to be honest, I want to know who I am. Who am I? How am I different from other people? If people say I am odd/unique, how am I so? I always had this kind of questions. Leadership is second interest I have, not the first one. I am very interesting to find myself through this course. Of course, I want to learn about the leadership too because I know I do not have it. I want it to control myself. I want to be a leader of myself.

I would like to introduce Yumi.

Yumi was born in Seoul in 1992 as the first child. Her mother was Korean and her father was Japanese. Yumi grew up in two different cultures at same time.

She mainly lived in Japan. As she got older, Korean culture in her family got less and less. Thus she cannot speak Korean well.

When she was 8^th grade, she moved to Egypt for her father’s job for four years and a month. She went to Cairo Japanese School first, and moved to Cairo American College when she became 9^th grade. Yumi leaned English there. She came back to Japan and went to Japanese publish high school for last high school year.

She now lives in Keyaki dorm. Her family lives in Yokohama. She love Yokohama and believes that its her home town.

Yumi thinks her character is something natural that she had when she was born with, but how she think is based on her life which had many moving. She had gone three elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools and one university. She has many friends but had said good bye to many friends.