2023.2.9 Thursday I’d like to talk about the earthquake in Turkey. It’s such a disaster and tragedy looking at what is going on there right now. Actually, I did not know much about Turkey as in culture and a country but I had heard that South Korea and Turkey are countries in brotherhood long before. So maybe because of that reason, I’ve always had this familiar and friendly feeling about the country, Turkey. When I saw the news on media at the first time, I thought like I can’t believe there is still more spaces in this world for hardships and misery as there were and are many casualties occurring from the war. I think a fight or collision among different ideologies might bring results that most of the people do not want and the hurt from it lasts for a long time until everything becomes normal again. I believe in people and I hope Turkey to overcome this tragedy to become normal as it was again.

2023.1.26 Thursday I missed to write a journal for yesterday for practice and here I go. Today after work, I went to jujitsu after a long break from the lunar’s new year holiday in Korea. I’ve been learning jujitsu since 2019 if I am guessing it right, back in the time when I was in Seoul. I am not sure about how long exactly I’ve been doing this but anyway I think it’s been 3-4 years until now. I haven’t been attending much often to the jujitsu class, so I am still in white belt. But thinking that this might be the workout/martial arts that I am willing to do my entire life, I don’t care that much about the current level I am in and the pace I am learning. Last year in summer, my teacher from jujitsu class recommended me to join a tournament competition. And he told me that it will be a good experience and chance to see how much I can compete with people from another region and gym. To say the result first, I got a silver medal from my first tournament, but I also got a severe injury on my shoulder. I am still suffering the pain from the injury while I am doing workout and it is bugging me in performing my training. Hopefully this year, I wish to achieve blue belt and be familiar with using many good skills.

2023.1.18 Wednesday In this year, I've set many goals to achieve and one of them is to quit or reduce drinking alcohol. But everytime I meet people for dinner, I tend to drink fast and try to drink more than I can handle and say “Let’s hit another round! Let’s go!”. The next day, I always regret about what I did or say suffering from the worst hangover. I think lately, I experience blackout more often and it leads me to think I have a bad control with drinking and I get scared thinking how can I not remember anything after some point and what if I lose all my brain cells and ill from dementia in the end. People around me tell me that I can just drink slow and try to focus on talking more with people and drink water as often as possible in between of shots. But I am not sure if this will block me having blackouts and ruining my body. To become a better person having good controls myself in general and retrieve a self-trust in me, I think it’s time to make a big decision to have a healthy body and mind. Because without a healthy body and mind, nothing can be done since it’s the base but the most important. Let's do it with strong will!

2023.01.11 Wednesday It's been a year and half working in this company since I started a new career after I quit my previous job due to Covid situation. At first I wasn't really satisfied with the work that was allocated to me when I got in here and I think I had some time struggling with adjusting in the work I got. But as time went by, slowly I found myself I got adjusted to the work and I felt fruitful about my work achievement from time to time. However, I realized that work isn't really for me and I want to change my work to another one that is more related to my previous career and to what I have been working on in my career path. After quite a long time of persuading and appealing to the head of the department about my opinion that I have a thought to do another work, I finally got accepted to move to a different team so I can do something what I've wanted. Now I am thrilled about thinking doing the new work and wish me luck!

2023.1.4 Wednesday Happy new year everyone, It's kind of late to say this but I hope everybody who sees my essay achieve what you want this year and wish you all the best! I am Jin and it is good to be back here again, I'm very looking forward to communicating with people here and hopefully I can find nice people who can help each other with studying and correcting our essays. Every year I set goals for the new year, and one of the goals for 2023 is to write an essay every once a week here on italki and make it as a hobby! I don't know what change this brings to me and what am I going to write every week but let's just see how it goes and how much long I can keep doing this!

Just arrived in LA! It's been a long time that I wrote a notebook here! 1st semester of my 4th year in uni just finished and it was such a busy semester when I think of it right now. I had to prepare for an internship while I'm taking lots of classes and preparing midterms and finals. anyway, luckily I got in the internship program that I applied in my uni and now I'm in LA! The internship is about doing a research in a lab that I applied to during summer vacation which is about 7 weeks. It's my second time that I visit the US and last time I only went to the east part of the US. I hope that I have a good time while I'm staying in the west part of the US and can't wait to visit places from the movie La la land! If you know around here well, please give me recommendations that I must experience while I'm staying here!

Feb 24th 2016 it's been a while to be back to Italki and write a notebook. I've been doing well in Gold Coast, Australia, working at a hotel almost 3months for now. Working in a hotel is hard, I'm working in laundry department and usually my shift is during the night, so my days and nights are changed which makes me more tired. ;( and also I'm usually sleeping unless I'm working, so I can't do something that I thought I wanted to do in Australia. (I think I'm too lazy sometimes ;p) oh right, and it's been almost 7months that I've stayed here! wow, time flies, seriously. I'm not sure my English has improved even a bit, but I'm pretty sure I got some aussie accnent ! also I learned some new aussie words like, Brisbane -> Brissy, Mcdonals- -> Mccas, this afternoon -> arvo, mosquito -> mossie, good day -> G'day... and you know, Aussie people use the word 'mate' a lot ! seriously, A LOT . I don't really wanna use the word, but sometimes I say like , 'hey mate, how's it goin' unconsciously. so funny. Anyways, I'm planning on travel other cities in Australia while I'm staying here, to do that, I need money, so I'm trying to save money at the moment. I learned the lesson that 'there's no easy things in life' which I knew that already just superficially. but now I think I really know it haha. The reasons I came to Australia were first, Being fluent at English, second, Getting experience in abroad.(I never stayed in abroad this long time before.) I hope to believe that I've been doing well trying to achieve my goals. I think I should write more often here.