Machi’s Mission Statement

At ICU, I want to study a lot!

I’m interested in psychology, linguistics, sociology and biology.

I want to know myself from multi-direction.

I want to create meaning to my life which includes past, present and future.

 

I want to be a good puppeteer, too!

For example, voice production, acting performance, sewing and fabrication.

I want to tell the wonderfulness of the puppet show!

We sometimes perform it at some kindergartens.

I hope our performance will be something pleasant to look back on by these children.

 

I can’t imagine myself a working member of society clearly.

I don’t have a concrete ideal occupation.

I want to be a person who can reward requests for working.

 

I want to consider and improvement a self-sacrificing part of myself.

Sometimes it’s important, but there is its limit.

I want to be a person who can love and care for myself.

I want to take care of myself as good as of others.

 

I want to know what LOVE is.

I don’t know the pleasure to love a specific other.

I want to be pleased at encounters, to be sorrowful about parting and treasure everyone around me.

It’s my mission to live with gratitude, love and respect.

 

AHOYAMA Class & Text Case Studies Jigsaw

*AHOYAMA Class
 On Monday, we went to Ahoyama and took lecture with moving our bodies! The discussion under the sun was very enjoyable and fantastic! Our group made a good square with a blinder and only oral communication. Each members put up various ideas and the group leaders, who were Aiki and Yumi, collected up them. The discussion was very open and active because we can be friends as LILTDY classmates! I'm very very happy.

*Text Case Studies Jigsaw
 My part was Chapter 13, Anne Mahr of Rice Health Systems. I worried about the correctness of my commentary, but at the time of my presentation, I could do it with a lion's skin! My group members listened to my presentation carefully and asked a lot of questions, so I was comfortable. I feel grateful about that for my group members!

*Next Class...
 Tomorrow(Oops, it was already today!!) I am going to do my final presentation. My tension runs high now, but I'm looking forward to others' presentations!

Thank you for your reading, see you next class!

Mr. Kitashiro's Lecture

Last Monday, we listened to Mr. Kitashiro's lecture.　He told us his biography and leadership concepts. He was gentle, calm and opened his mind to us. His lecture was very precious for us!

He used some key-words.
*Be positive / Don't be negative
*Don't give up
*Passion
*Communication
*Good for everyone --- Make a win-win style

When we do something, we need to think about
1st : Customer / Client / Society
2nd : Employees / Team
3rd : Own benefit
to win!

I felt he was very very positive person and his family and friends must be very very happy!

Conflict

We talked about conflict. When we get into conflict, we shouldn't button our lips. We need to discuss or talk with someone who we can trust.

We checked our ways to act in conflicts. I was a confronting negotiator who wanted to solve the problem and thought both the goal and the relationship were important. It's one of the difficult ways, but I want to be a good confronting negotiator.

Confronting negotiators---they are like the owl.

In the next class, we can meet Mr. Kitashiro. It must be a very wonderful time for us! I'm looking forward to see him.

"Win" Tactics

There are 8 tactics to make win-win negotiations.
1. Exaggerated First Offer
2. Speed Ups
3. Delays
4. Drawing Lines
5. Creating Competition
6. Concessions
7. Investment
8. Authority Limits

I often use Delays and Investment to share a lot of deep information of each other.

Negotiation 2

We talked about good negotiation skills. In the Louisiana Pine Snake Eggs negotiation, we tried a business one with focusing our own interests.

We chose our own "sentence." I chose Einstein's word --- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. I want to be a "good" person.

Thank you for your reading and comments!

Negotiation Skills

 We learned about negotiation skills last week.
 The key word was simple --- "Information is everything!"

 We challenged some role playing negotiations.  In the orange one, I took a mistake that was I couldn't listen to the partner's information clearly. Therefore, I couldn't make a win-win solution. I want to be a good listener of English.

 We thought about our own long-term goals and short-term ones. What's my goal? It was very strong question for me. We watched a short movie and it said that "Was I better today than yesterday?". I couldn't nod to this question suddenly. Who am I? What's my goal? I can't answer them.

Thank you for your reading.

First Impressions

 Last week, we learned about First Impressions.

 Hand shaking has a lot of meaning such as showing the power relationships, familiarity and so on. And it has the points for us --- Brief, Worm, Firm!

 SOFTEN was one of the key words of us. It means Smile, Open stance, Forward lean, Tone, Eye contact and Nod. Especially I'm not good at Eye contact, so I need to prepare my talking well.

 Smile was very important for us, too. It has relations with our neurons, so it works with not only our rational minds but also our wild ones. It has big power for our assessments.

Thank you for your reading. Please comment on my blog lightly.

Machi's 1st Post

I'm Machi Ogawara, from Ibaraki and live in Mitaka by myself now. I'm not good at English, so please help me in class.

Last winter term, I took Ken's CS-CM class. It was very interesting and I thought he was very kind and cute, so I wanted to take his class again.

I'm  a member of ICU Puppetry Club. Nest year, we will need to lead our kouhai (ID16&17). I want to know how to get a leadership in the club activity.

Thank you for your reading.