What I Thought After The Party🍺

If You Go Outside Of Comfort Zone…

I went to the club party in Shinjuku for college students on April 28, which is yesterday. Many international students or Japanese students who are good at English were attending there. That party was actually really fun! All the people there were college students, so they are almost my age and that makes it a lot easier for me to get into conversations and interact with them. Not only that, I really enjoyed it because I could do two things. One is that I could get to as many people as possible, whether they are male or female. Putting myself out of comfort zone and light up conversations used to be hard for me since I was a pretty shy guy back then. But throughout accumulating the experiences of meeting new people on campus and getting to know them over and over again, I've become a lot more outgoing, sociable and kind of cheerful. So that's the first thing I could do at the party. Second is that I just had fun talking with new people in English. Although I'm still not that fluent in English, I've grown so much from English immersion. So I didn't miss the opportunities to get to know new people, speaking in English.

Maybe going to the parties where I can meet lots of international people and get to know each other in English will be pretty fun! That's good for both using your English in real life and broadening your communities.

Here's The Truth

How the international students attending that party got in the university they are currently in is similar to the background of September students at ICU.
-> After all we are all humans so even if we go to different universities, maybe what we learn there and how we go through uni life are almost the same. 
They (including me) are the people who owe their (international) environments for being able to be in the situation they are in. But still they party, hang out with friends midnight, go drink at bars or izakaya and feel lazy and skip classes or put off assignments/ reports every now then. It's the same.

Doing something that majority of people around you are afraid of trying means you are trying things that most people in the world (at least in Japan) are not trying. 

Takeaway:
What I feel about things is exact the same as others. When you feel tired, others do too. When you are having fun, they are too. So being dare to do what makes you feel tired, exhausted, nervous, overwhelmed and embarrassed will help you gain knowledge, experiences and skills that others can not. It takes time of course, but if you keep doing that for a long period of time, you'll be running way ahead of others whatever field you are working on.