Second Assessment of the Year- May 2021

This year has been one of struggle but also a lot of success. My previous semester of work led to me achieve ding a 4.0 GPA and being inducted into the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and it also allowed me to get one step closer to my goal of joining KCAI's foreign language honor society. I have confirmed a fair amount of diagnoses and have strengthened my bond with my physicians and learned to better understand my body's needs to function, and above all else, I have continued to try my best at learning.

I started this current semester in January, extremely unconfident in my skills, barely able to form basic sentences or read anything other than hiragana and a handle of kanji, and I feel that I have progressed so much as a language learner. Even though I am still incredibly self conscious about the way I speak and being put on the spot, I can now, if given time, put together information that makes sense and can get a point across, and I am proud that even when I was feeling like I couldn't continue I still was able to pull it together enough to progress. I think that I have done myself well.

What might be simple to some, or meaningless, has had so much of an impact on my mental health and views of my own ability, and I am excited to continue to learn this summer, next semester and every semester after that! 

(As a simple check, I would like to write below some of the information that I have learned and retained this semester with no other motive than sticking it in one place to look back at later!)

苦しみ、待って、食べる、飲み物、損害、にく、年、多く、別、何、魚、水、東北、地震