1st blog of 30-day challenge

Nina Yang

W&CIII

Ms. Guarino

04/10/2015

1.     Live without regret

  Many people are asking about what life is. As a student, my life is to eat, sleep, go to school, and hang out with friends. Is it the kind of life I want? I don’t know, and I have no choice but to go to school everyday. The one thing I know that the purpose for me to go to school is to learn something from my classes. The one thing I’m sure about is that if I did not learn stuff everyday, I would be regretful once I grow up. Therefore, avoid from being regret, I will be working on my thirty-day challenge starting today, which is a challenge about learning a new word from any language other than Chinese that can express my feelings or thoughts.

  The purpose of my challenge is clear: learning new knowledge everyday to keep me from being regretful later. But how would I do it and keep myself doing it everyday? Every night before I sleep, I would think about what happened on me that day. Maybe it’s something I learned in class that makes me feel intelligent, or it’s something that between someone and me makes me feel upset or angry. It’s a time for me to do self-examination and self-reflection that I wouldn’t do before. It’s a great time for me to think about did I spend the time wisely today? What should I do or shouldn’t do tomorrow that can make my day better than yesterday? It’s not only a time for me to learn new things but to do self-questioning. I think by doing this challenge, I would form a good habit to increase the quality of my day without wasting any time.

  The first day of my challenge is a Friday. Everybody loves Friday because it’s like a superhero that save us from stress and works. My word today is a French word. French sounds super fancy to me, and I hope that one day I could speak French as fluently as I speak Chinese and English. Since it’s a Friday, I’m learning the word “to rest” in French. “To rest” in French is “Se reposer” Different from English, French people do not say “I rest”. In stead, they say, “I rest myself”, which is “ je me repose”. It’s pretty fancy, right? We can rest for two days after the end of work on Friday. I’m so exited when even thinking about it. I don’t have to set an alarm for tomorrow morning and worry about whether I finish all my assignments or not. It’s the time for people to rest from the afternoon of a Friday.

  The first day of my thirty-day challenge had passed by learning a French word “se reposer” . My challenge is not hard, but I think I could gain a lot of useful stuff from doing it. Not only to learn incredible knowledge, but also to form a good habit. A habit for me that to live without regret.