I MADE IT!

Yeah! I made it!! I received the TOEIC result. I took it in Sapporo, last month. Then, I got...a 900 score! Was it my biggest resolution this year? Yes! I fulfilled it even though it's just the second month of the year! (You know, it seldom happens to me...)
The picture is not clear, but it says my listening score is 455(It hasn't changed from the one of two years ago...that's why I always think my listening is not good!!), and my reading score is 445.
Last October, my score was 815... It's been just three months, and I haven't prepared a lot this time! What happened? Probably, my adjustment to the old TOEIC in the U.S. was not succesful last time. Also, I have studied mostly using Japanese reference books. So, I saw some famillar questions from those books in the Japanese TOEIC.
Anyway, now, one of my dreams of "getting a full score on the TOEIC" has become realistic to me! If I get more 90 points, it would be a full score! I should work harder to get them, generate some strategies, and teach those to people who work on the TOEIC in Japan!!

I learned two things from this result.
1. We should have the HIGHEST objective in OUR field. Before I came here, my TOEIC score was 450. It was hard for me just to listen to and read English at that time. I thought "I want to get an 800 score before I go back to Japan! But maybe it's too difficult for me..." However, after I got this score, I started to think about "getting a full score, and being a TOEIC teacher someday." If I had been satisfied with an 800 score, I wouldn't have thought I could get a 900 score. If we kept seeing higher positions, the height we could jump would be higher...I guess. However, the objective should be realistic.
Ten years ago, I studied to be a kind of lawyer. However, it was TOO hard for me and it was not MY field! That was unrealistic. So... have the highest objective in YOUR field!!

2. Dreams (or resolutions) could be changed. Sometimes we should be flexible.
Just after I came here, I only wanted to be involved in WEDDINGS like I used to be. However, even though I hoped... the wedding business requires communication skills. Language is an important key of the communication. So, I went to English schools everyday. Sometimes it was frustrating that I couldn't speak well, or couldn't understand what people said. Also, I was not sure it was OK If I wasn't in actual wedding scenes.
However, the more I went to Elglish classes, the more I was impressed how classes changed depending on a teacher. I have met many English teachers...more than 15? maybe... A few of them were not good teachers (even though they were good people.) They didn't think about how they can improve their students' English, or didn't like to have questions... But some teachers are...REALLY admirable people! What makes them different? The answers are...( I know, they sound TOO dramatic..)love,passion, and professionalism, I think.
I want to put what I learned from those great teachers to account after I go back to Japan. I know it is hard for me to compete with professional people in the English educational field using GENERAL English because my English career has just started. But getting a full score on the TOEIC is realistic a dream to me ( I know it takes time! though...), so I want to make it "my field!" (Oh! Of course I want to continue my wedding emcee job! Weekends: wedding emcee, weekdays: TOEIC teacher, is my ideal life!)
My point is...we can take advantages of where we live, or whom we meet. Our dreams could be changed by their influence!
Thus,be flexible and take the advantages as much as you can!

Surviving in this world is not so easy...but having a dream can be a nice REFRESHMENT in our lives. Even though some will never come true!? No, it can be true! I want to believe so...