Uninteresting. No need to waste ur time reading.

oh u have come at last though u knew that it's gonna be uninteresting. if u've decided to do so, y not spent some time to go until the end then?

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Tiny Things Here
walking along the sidewalk around the school was a very nice feeling when i first came here in april. n of course it still feels the same now bcos it hasn't been, what we call, "a long time" yet. the view everywhere was really heart-warming with flowers blooming, birds flying n lots of greenery.

however, this was what i expected b4 i came here, so nothing interesting about that. what interested me more was not that beautiful nature, but the YELLOW lines along the sidewalk. some seniors who offered to come to guide me around gave different ideas to what purpose the lines were meant to serve. n at last the most logical n trustworthy claim was that they were made for blind or partially sighted people to step on. n of course it sounds really reasonable since on each line which is about 30 cm in width there r two kinds of embossed patterns, n u can feel them with ur soles. one pattern is a long bar shaped with round ends. this tells u that it is a straight line, n u can go forward. n the other pattern is round. this can tell u that it is a crossroad, or a turning point, or a stop at the traffic lights. seeing this n knowing it's purpose, i was really amazed at how thoughtful n kind japanese people were to those pitiful disabled people. n i wish we have that in our country too. with the help of these lines they can enjoy walking around taking fresh air, even though they cannot see beautiful things around. imagine if there were no these lines, how can they be able to walk alone without anyone's company? it may be hard, if possible. here in TUFS, there is a man who is visually impaired, but he can walk everywhere on his own. n he is taking classes here like other students. what is more, i've heard that he is even outstanding in his study. i really appreciate him. n he deserves to have good life as others. n to him i think the yellow lines r important to a large extent.

another thing that also interested me was that japanese people do strictly obey the rules n laws. u can see it at the traffic lights n in shops or stores or even the canteen on school campus. in my first week here, one night i happened to go out to buy sth to eat for breakfast. it was a bit late n no one was on the road except a car which was stopping at the red traffic light. it was clear that there were no other cars from the other three directions of the crossroad, but the driver didn't drive on b4 the green light appeared. on another day, i saw a car on another crossroad, but this time without traffic lights. this time too, it was clear that there were no people walking or riding bicycle or car driving pass, but the driver made his car to a complete stop b4 he drove on. i admit that if i had been him, i would have driven on without any fear of accident. but there is sth wrong with this behaviour. this may be one of the reasons that cause lots of accidents in our country. if we all help obey the traffic laws, there may be fewer accidents, n fewer people may die meaninglessly on the road. i do wish that we will change our habits from time to time. moreover, i think i really love the "Queueing" culture in the crowded place here, like in supermarkets or school canteen. at first i was a bit surprised when i first saw the line of people waiting to get into the canteen to eat their lunch. there really were lots of people but it took only a little time to get the food to eat. imagine if they hadn't queued n challenged to go first, some of them wouldn't have had anything to eat that day. so they were lucky cos they had this good habit of Queueing.

not to make u tired, i'll finish my text with this last notice. it's the frequency of saying the words "thank you" n "sorry". i really cannot count how many times i hear these two words per day. i think this is a good habit. n we should say them more often. back home, i have witnessed a lot of cases which involved these 2 simple words. but among the two, there were more cases with the word "sorry" than the word "thank you". in some cases, the word "sorry"

should have been said, so that no problem would have happened. n in some others, the word "sorry" was politely said, but problems still happened. what does this mean? what can we learn from this? for me, i learnt that some people will get satisfied with the word "sorry" n forgive us no matter how big or small our mistake to them is. or we can say this group of people r willing to forgive us, but they can do it only with a reason. n the reason is that we say "sorry" to them already. but some other people still get angry though we say "sorry" bcos they may think that with this word, the normal conditions of sth cannot be regained. n i think it is wrong to have this attitude. what i am trying to say here is that "whenever we make a mistake to people, we should always say 'sorry' . n whenever we hear a proper 'sorry', we should always forgive" after all, it is good to learn how to forgive n forget. right?

but some people may argue that "what if a person kill sb u really love, n then say 'sorry' in a very polite way, what will u do? will u forgive him?" my answer is "this is too big a mistake. n it is not the mistake i was talking about earlier. so what kind of mistake, or how big is it that we can forgive? it is up to ur common sense. n i don think it is impossible for u to judge. right? :-) "