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Self-PSP 1

My dad is working on a hotel as a manager. Because of that, the family moved to the cities few times. Whenever I moved the school, I worried about friends, school work and atmosphere in the school. Fortunately, I was the person that talk to new friends. Otherwise, I won’t able to hang out or play sports with friends. Korean male students love to play soccer during lunch break. To able to play with them, I had to be good at it or at least be the decent player. I also liked to play. Because of my soccer skill, my classmates were asking me about if I can participate in a class soccer tournament. I proved that I can be with them for rest of elementary life. I graduated the elementary school without having many troubles. Even I didn’t move house, I had to go to the middle school that located so far away from my house. I had to ride a bus to get there. I’m also new to people there as well. Unlucky, I hit puberty when I shouldn’t be. I became really quiet and didn’t like to socialize with people. But one of my friends started to change me to loud and positive person. He always joked around with me, play soccer and eats snacks together. I could also socialize with older students as well. I didn’t have problems until I moved to Japan because I spoke Korean to socialize. I needed to speak English to socialize and take classes. I just didn’t talk to people except for Korean students. I mean, I wasn’t ready to talk to them. They look different and speak differently. My English teacher taught me a lesson about be confident with making mistakes. So from 8th grade, I started to talking to people more than I used to.

Self-PSP 2

I know South Korea as a really busy country. Sometimes, we don’t even appreciate stuff that we have. I was like that too. I go to school in the morning, go back to home around late afternoon and go to extra study courses. All of my stuff ended around 10 in the night. After I take shower, I started do homework from school and extra study courses and I go to bed around 12. I had exactly same schedule for two years. I don’t think I had a satisfied life in Korea. I wanted to have more money, knowledge and friends to be popular in town. Basically I was very greed, but not many things were working well for me. Everything was annoying and I didn’t want to go to extra study courses. I just wanted to play soccer every single day.

After I move to Japan from Korea, I was mature enough to be thankful and appreciate stuff that I have. I had more chill life in Japan. No extra study courses and classes ends at 3:30 and I was able to join soccer after school. I still wasn’t thankful for it. I thought everyone have same things as me. I had quite similar mind set until 10th grade. But when I went to Vietnam for habitat humanity service, I had time to self-reflect about myself. A lot of Vietnamese were living in really old houses and they don’t look sad about that. They were smiling and welcoming us. I guess I realised that lately compare to other students, but I’m glad that I realised.

Self-PSP 3

I had a dream about playing soccer in professional league, but my parents was disagree about that. But I didn’t give up on that. I was really happy when I play soccer. I was begging about joining soccer club to mom. Even though I was in soccer club, I wasn’t thankful about it. I thought anyone can join if their parents agree about it. Because of my family moved to Japan, I also had to stop playing soccer. Which means, my dream was gone. Maybe I wasn’t happy about my situation, I was very negative person when I moved to Japan. I didn’t even know how appreciate to people that around me.

Back in March,2016, my class went to Vietnam for ‘Habitat Humanity Service’ trip for ten days. I knew this trip would be really meaningful to me and classmates. The service trip really touched me. I wouldn’t expect people can live in really bad condition houses. A lot of them don’t sad about what they have. That makes really want to do self-reflect about what I been doing in my life. Because of this service trip, I had a time to reflect about myself. I decided to help local workers a lot. The three days of working went really quick. Maybe I was tired afterwards, but I felt really proud and meaningful. After I came back to home, make people happy and appreciating are really thankful things to do. Whenever I see donation box in down town, I wish my small donation can help poor people happy.

Because all those great experience I had in Vietnam, I really want to keep give great service to people and make them happy. That makes me want to get a job can give service to people.

Self-PSP Final

I had a dream about playing soccer in the professional league, but my parents were disagree about that. But I didn’t give up. I was really happy when I played soccer. I begged my mom to join the soccer club, but once I joined the soccer, I wasn’t thankful for it. I thought anyone can join if their parents agreed to it. Because my family moved to Japan, I also had to stop playing soccer. Which meant, my dream was gone. Maybe I wasn’t happy about my situation, I was a very negative person when I moved to Japan. I didn’t even know how to appreciate the people that around me.

Back in March 2016, my class went to Vietnam for ‘Habitat Humanity Service’ trip for ten days. I knew this trip would be really meaningful to me and my classmates. The service trip really touched me. I wouldn’t have expected people to live in really bad condition. A lot of them are not sad about what they have. That makes me really want to self-reflect about what I have been doing in my life. Because of this service trip, I had time to reflect on myself. I decided to help local workers a lot. These three days of working went by really quick. Maybe I was tired, after afterward, I felt really proud. After I returned home, to make people happy and appreciate the things they are thankful for. Whenever I see a donation box in downtown, I hope my small donation can help poor people happy.

Because of all those great experience I had in Vietnam, I really want to keep giving great service to people and make them happy. This is what makes me want to get a job so that I can give service to people in need.