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Hello everyone, this is Masaki Nakajima.
Today is the last day of my trip to Rotorua for the time being.
It feels strange.
I came to my favorite place, Blue Lake.
I'm going back to Japan a little later, but tomorrow morning I'm going to stay with my host family in Haahei, Colomando, and then I'm going to camp a little further up from Rotorua, and then I'm going back to Japan in Auckland, so for the time being, today is the last day of my trip to Rotorua for the time being.
It's been a year since I came here and it's been fluffy, but I'm glad I could come here, and I'm thinking a lot about what to talk about.
I think you're looking back at 2023 because 2023 is over, but I think there were really good and bad things, but I'm a simple person, so I'm thinking of good points.
I'm the last 20s in my age range, and I'm 29 years old, so I'm wondering what I could do.
I've been able to do things I didn't expect to do in this year.
That's because I came to Rotorua and it's inconvenient to drive, so I bought my first car in my life because I couldn't enjoy it without a car, and I haven't driven much in Japan, but I can't go anywhere unless I drive, so I hope I can drive when I'm 29.
There was originally a plan for English to get better, but now I can speak it better than before, and I want to get information in English, and I think that's the best thing.
I can now get information from English naturally.
The road is still a long way, though.
Also, because of the host family, I can go climbing or camping in the future, and I also participated in the trail marathon and spent a lot of time there.
It's flying a lot.
Recently, because it's summer, the road in New Zealand is a little rough.
There are a lot of people who are excited.
Well, leaving that aside, I thought again this year is a year of gratitude.
I was glad I studied abroad because I thought I was a simple human being.
People in South America are so much more positive than me.
Also, people in Saudi Arabia.
I really learned that positivity.
I think it's really fun depending on how you think about things just because you're positive.
It really depends on how you think.
For example, I'm doing a part-time job now, but I work in Japanese.
At first, I thought it wouldn't work for my English because it was a job using Japanese, but the company there needed a lot of Japanese people, so the talk was going on and on.
Thankfully, I got a job, and the job itself is a lot of fun.
But English!
But when I think about it, I was a little worried about whether it would be okay.
But my friend told me that it's not up to my way of thinking.
You might think so, but you can do it because you're Japanese.
You said you couldn't do it for me.
You learned English and now you can understand English even a little bit.
You can also translate like that.
And you said you couldn't speak the first language of Japanese.
That's why you were so supportive of me.
I thought it was up to my way of thinking.
Thank you.
For now, I'm going back to Japan for now.
I'm going to power up and come back when I leave again.
I've learned English sentences and vocabularies over the past year.
I'm going to power up and come back here again.
And when I come back next time, I'm going to do the same job, but I'm going to have to translate it a little more difficult.
I have to put it all in for it.
Anyway, I think it's the same for everything, but when you start something new, there are a lot of new words.
Do you call it "industry terminology"?
I feel like I have to learn it.
First of all, the reason I'm going back is because I have to renew my passport.
My passport expires, so I have to renew my passport.
You know what I mean, right?
But you can do it in New Zealand, too.
I've been taking flights back and forth since the end of this year.
I thought it would be faster to continue in Japan if I went back.
I'm going to renew my passport and apply for a working holiday and get a flight ticket.
I don't know when I'll be back here again.
My goal is to be back here in three months.
I'm barely on holiday.
I'm 30 years old and I'm applying for a working holiday and I'm barely on holiday.
I'm 30 years old and I don't have this.
I wonder if this is me.
I'm very calm now.
Sometimes I get comments like, "Nakki, why are you studying abroad?"
As a result, it's for me, isn't it?
Recently, I've been thinking that you are you and I am me.
If you can protect and create an environment where you can be happy, I'll be happy with it.
There are times when I get negative no matter what.
But it's a lot of influence from around you.
It's not you, is it?
When I'm depressed, I get depressed in myself who I've compared to others.
I get depressed with words from others.
I get depressed with harsh words.
I get depressed with myself.
That's me, isn't it?
I'm like this.
Can you give up like me?
I don't expect much of myself.
I don't want to be loved, and I'm having fun now, and there are a lot of kind people around me, so I thought it would be really happy if I had my little world here to give and receive my own little love to them.
So if you ask me why I'm studying abroad, it's really for myself.
And then, you know, the choices you've made will build me up in the future, and it's not just about work, it's not just about studying abroad, it's about learning about human relationships, and I think there are still a lot of worlds I don't know about, but I think there are worlds you don't have to know about.
But I think I was able to study abroad because I was able to think like this.
Physically, I'm away from Japan, I meet new people, and even though I can see myself clearly, I give up what I can't do. Because I can't do it.
I need someone's help.
And what I can do is what I want to do my best. If I can be of help.
I just got a call from my mother. Wait a minute.
My mother is preparing for a great Christmas right now.
I spend about four days at the campsite and then go back to Japan, but my family spends a week or two weeks.
I have to prepare ingredients for cooking, and I'd like to film it, so I hope I can share it.
It's really nice. I don't know what's comfortable about it.
I think I've come to understand what it means to be able to live my own way.
This is me. If the happiness I have here is happiness, that's enough for me.
Anyway, there aren't many people, and there's less noise, and the price is high, and I think I'll go back to Japan one day, but I don't feel like I'm buying anything.
It's comfortable and easy.
There's a lot of wisdom you can learn and live here.
I'm sure when you go back to Japan, you'll find yourself in a convenient world again.
It might be convenient and successful, but I like this little inconvenient Rotorua right now.
I love Rotorua that's a little inconvenient, a little lame, but calm.
I love Rotorua that you can't do it because it's Rotorua.
And it's a wide sky, isn't it?
And for that reason, the stars are beautiful and it's very quiet at night.
And people are kind and in great detail, I like the fact that you can park in front of you when you park.
And I like the fact that there are no tickets.
I'm so happy to be able to come to Rotorua.
But it's an international channel, so you're probably wondering how much my English has improved, right?
Well, in terms of grammar...
I learned expressions that are a little closer to native expressions, like idioms.
For example, kids say "genki da" or "genki sugita" or "kids are full of beans" and stuff like that.
I didn't learn a lot of idioms like that, but a lot of people use them, right?
I wonder if I learned anything like that...
But I haven't been able to digest it all, so I want to do work that can be digested.
When I was studying abroad and writing my first diary, I stopped doing it every day and started writing what I thought at the time.
Well, that's also a diary.
Instead of writing every day, for example...
I'm here now, and when it comes to diaries...
Is it because I don't have the ability to write sentences? It's all the same.
I went to school today and talked about this and that with my friends.
I went running today and ran a few kilometers.
It's all pretty much the same.
I thought this wasn't good either.
For example, I copied the recipe you taught me.
Also, I copied what my favorite YouTuber said and talked about it.
That's what I decided to do.
It's surprising that I can talk about it in a sentence that I don't have much of.
But there's not much variety.
I want to be a person with more variety.
I found my favorite YouTuber and tried writing and reading.
I have to take a test, too.
But it's really...
I'm sorry I said that earlier.
It's really hard.
I can't remember the words!
Is it something you can remember if you work hard at it?
There's too much vocabulary.
I really don't like academic vocabulary.
Why do you remember it?
Why does it happen?
It's not like that at all.
Well, well.
Well, but I know.
You're talking about what you know, aren't you?
I've been interested in vocabulary lately.
I bought a book about bookkeeping.
When it comes to books like that, it's academic or professional vocabulary, isn't it?
I'm tired of reading one page in one day.
I'd like to do what I like and increase my vocabulary.
For now...
Oh, no, it's 2 o'clock.
For now, I'm going to buy what my mother asked me to buy and go to school to say hello again.
I'd like to pack everything and go back to Japan.
Oh, before that, I enjoyed my holiday.
Yeah, I've had a lot of fun on my holiday.
But I think I'll post that video again in a little while.
It's just a video of me having fun.
I want you all to forget about it.
See you later!