My English doesn't improve at all.

I'm taking TOEIC exam on Sunday. I didn't do any preparation for that again. Lazy Sand, as usual...

I took a mock exam just now.
I'm depressed. I realized that my English doesn't improve AT ALL!!
My weaknesses are as the same as before. One is that I can't read English quickly. The other is listening. I wonder what I have been doing.

Should I rebuild my studying scheme more strictly?

Anyway, I will take another mock exam tomorrow in order to getting used to an exam, then I'm going to take the real exam the day after tomorrow.

Book: "Buddhism for Busy People" and going to Meditation classroom

I've been interested in Tibetan Buddhism, and recently I thought I wanted to know its teaching a bit more deeply. (A little bit)
First, I tried to read "Buddhism for Busy People" written by David Michie. Japanese title is different at all. If I translate it into English, it's "Travel of Awareness."

I was not going to belong to any religion and not going to do any training. I just want to know the teaching. However, after I read this book, I started to think about doing meditations. The book says that just knowing is meaningless and practice is important.

There seems to be many kind of meditations. The book introduced some of them and I paid attention to Thong Len meditation. Anyway, any meditations seem to be difficult.

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A few days after reading the book, I found that Thong Len meditation workshop would be held soon. What a coincidence! I applied for it soon, then I went to participate in it yesterday.

Hmm... I was a bit disappointed with the workshop, but at least I could learn correct pose (the way of sitting). I think I got much less value for money though...

I'll start doing meditations, anyway.

My Sansevieria was reborn!

I got a small Sansevieria about a year ago.

Sansevieria should become very big (tall), but my sansevieria doesn't grow at all. On the contrary, it started dying.

The left photo is a year ago. The right photo is now. It doesn't grow at all and I left a few leaves because they have died. Poor sansevieria.

It's my fault. I should have taken care of it more carefully. But I didn't give up. I was trying to make it alive again.

Then yesterday, I found that new small leaves came out!!!!!
I'm really happy!
Look at the small leaves!!

OK, I will cherish it.