This morning, after taking a shower and having breakfast, I went to the largest hospital in this town to meet the ENT section's doctor to have my ears checked. At first, I wrote a paper to tell my current condition. After that, a staff checked how I could hear tiny sounds with my ears, and its result said there seemed no serious/special disorder, but it seemed that my blood pressure was a little bit high and "maybe" it related to these days trouble. She decided to afford a few kinds of medicines.
While waiting for the medicine that had been prepared for me at a pharmacy, I read an interesting book by Takeshi Nakajima, "Asia-ism [中島岳志『アジア主義』]". After I got the medicines, I went to the main house of my group home. The sub-admin and I talked about this morning's event in that hospital. She said that they might be able to prepare a piece of equipment to check my blood pressure. After that, I showed the chart paper in which I've recorded recent days' events.
After that, I came back to my room and had ramen (yes, I forgot about my blood pressure!). Then, I had lunch and took a nap. This afternoon, I went to AEON. There, I wrote an article as homework for the English conversation class. In that paper, I wrote about last Sunday's event (you've probably read about it) in English: If someone has a so-called "introverted" character, they should try to "overcome" it or not? That's a provoking question for me.
I answered this: Probably I'm also so introverted that I rarely have any initiative in general conversation (so, I am not good at working as a host in general meeting situations). However, if I tried to "overcome" that character completely (as if I tried to get "reborn"), it would make me a fatal "breakdown". Instead, I want to treat my personality as a unique, lovely one which must have dignity. Eventually (bit by bit), I want to try to get used to opening my mind in casual conversation with truly trustworthy people.
At 7 p.m., the English class which I had mentioned above started. Today's topic was the coming Valentine's Day. The teacher asked us a few questions such as whether that Valentine's Day was a holiday or just a day based on companies' commercial tactics (I answered it is a holiday we wait for celebrating annually even though it had begun by companies). It was a pleasant time as always. I really appreciate it.
