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Nice to meet you!I'm Wakana, and I've been working at guesthouse waya since spring.

 

This blog is a continuation (second part) of my self-introduction blog "Nice to meet you, I'm Wakana"!

(if you don't mindFirst partPlease also take a look ^^)

In the second partI want people to know my background, introduce myself and what I likewrote about

 

HoweverIt took me a long time to write this blog.

 

Because I kept thinking about how best to express myself and “get it across”.

I want to spell the words as I want in life size.

 

With that in mind, I've been writing and erasing for the past two weeks.

 

Then I suddenly remembered.

"What was the reason you fell in love with waya?"What

 

The reason why I fell in love with"Because I fell in love with myself who thought I had nothing"English learning is necessary to prepare for life, learning and interaction with the global environment. <br> IT Skills (programming logic) is necessary to prepare for the needs of the future.<br> Financial literacy is necessary to prepare for creating, managing and being smart with time and wealth.<br>

I wonder what my life would have been like if I hadn't met waya that day.I vividly remember the throbbing in my heart that day, how I listened intently to what he had to say, and how I didn't want this time to end.

 

Surely, no matter which road I walked, I might have been me.However,

I'm glad I met waya.I realized that the world is big.I'm glad I made the trip.I'm glad I took the step.

 

Because I remembered the day when I thought so, I looked back again on why I fell in love with it, and went back to the beginning and wrote this blog.

 

When I was 17 years old, I was very happy to be able to meet this miracle of waya and to be able to take on a new journey as a staff member of waya.

Ever since then, I have been on a journey called life.

 

That's it for the preface.

In this second part, I pick up some things I like.While writing this blog, I was able to notice that there are reasons and backgrounds when I look back on what I like!I will write about it with details.

 

I would be happy if everyone could read it ^^

 

"I like doing things with my friends"

I was looking back on my childhood.

When I was young, I was not very active and often did something at home.

I just loved music and drawing.

 

I started playing the piano when I was 4 years old and continued until high school.But actually, I always liked school accompaniment more than classical music.smile　

 

At first, the music that I was doing alone, since whenmaking music togetherI became obsessed with

 

When I was in junior high school, I joined the brass band club and was in charge of the tuba, a brass instrument with a low bass.

The tuba was selected because it has a good body.At first, I felt a little resentment toward my teacher (lol), but later I fell in love with him. (Thank you, Sensei! My body is nice, nice!)

 

It's not like there's a solo that really stands out, and the sounds that he plays are often simple, but he's an indispensable presence.

If there is, it's like "it's better".The power behind the rim.I feel like I was attracted to such a tuba.

 

Brass band, it's very athletic!smile

I did the outer circumference and I feel like I did muscle training.There is also practice of answering.

Even after I retired, I was praised for my reply wherever I went.smile

 

Thinking back, there were anguish and fights (I had a lot of fights between club members. LOL), but

from those daysI love doing things with my friendswas.Support each other by fulfilling their respective roles.

 

I loved this anyway.We will cross mountains that cannot be easily crossed together.

I still have memories of many dramas.This is still my favorite thing.

"What you can't do alone, with others"I often think like that.

 

 

"I like traveling"

After college, I loved traveling and went somewhere every long vacation.

In addition to traveling, I often participated in volunteer work to build houses overseas.

I love meeting people and food trips.

I love eating food that can only be eaten in the area and experiencing food culture.I was able to help out at the farmer's place, listen to farming methods, hear how to eat delicious food, and listen to his thoughts.I also love going to local supermarkets and buying local ingredients to make rice.Recently, I went to Okinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture and asked a local mother for a recipe for pork miso.

 

A trip with encounters with people and encounters with food.

For someone like me who loves eating so much that I live to eat it, I can't help but appreciate it! ! !Best!

 

Time to "eat" the food that is treasured in the land.

And it's time to return to Hokkaido and "tell" it.The feeling of deliciousness that travel gave birth toI love it because it feels like it will keep you warm..

 

Meeting people is the real pleasure of traveling.Thanks to the wonderful relationship, there are many things I think.

 

When I traveled alone to Manila in the Philippines, I was touched by their warmth.When I went to the slums, a certain family warmly welcomed me and gave me a full meal.They are so warm, kind, and so charming.

 

He told me many things and asked me many questions.It's a time when you can't help but overflow with a smile that makes you think that this time should last forever.I just felt happy.

 

However, I later learned that they had just received a notice from the government to vacate their residence the day before they met me.

They said, "I can't see the future and it's painful. I don't know what to do."When I heard that, I felt so small that I couldn't do anything.

 

The warmth, sadness, frustration, and helplessness I felt at that time.I remember it with my skin.I remember crying on the plane on the way home, remembering, thinking, remembering, thinking, and repeating.That trip is still playing in my mind.

 

Traveling allows you to discover a world you never knew existed.You can feel the world that is not described in textbooks with your own feet, skin, eyes, ears, and heart.And it makes me think a lot about "myself".I had many trips that made me think about what I can do.Of course, there were also slow and wonderful trips where I just lay there looking at the blue sky without thinking about anything.

 

Six months after my trip to the Philippines, I transferred to a university to study international cooperation.

I have learned so much from my travels.It also teaches me that every choice is connected to the present.

 

And another important thing that I learned from my trip.

It means that the rice you eat together is more delicious than anything else!Having dinner with someone is so delicious!

 

I am who I am today because of many trips and encounters.

 

The continuation of the story of the trip is somewhere else.There is no definition for travel, so I want to continue my own journey.

 

Journey from spring with waya.

What kind of days will it be?Just the right amount of tension and excitement.

 

"I like presentations"

and!I love presentations.

I first fell in love with it when I participated in a presentation competition called DREAM when I was a first year university student.

DREAM was truly a dream-like competition where you can get a round-the-world air ticket if you win!

 

Although I lost unfortunately, I had a really wonderful experience.

 

Just as this blog was difficult to write at first, it takes me a while to put my words into words.

Even so, I loved that presentation time when I was able to speak properly in my own words at the end as much as I was worried about a lot.

 

I used to call PowerPoint a buddy (laughs).

When it comes to presentations, there is something I really like that goes beyond my hobbies, and I made about 100 presentations when I was a student.

(There are also materials that summarize things that I just like that have not been published anywhere.)

 

But rather than presenting myself

I loved the time when someone in front of me was talking about whatever they wanted in their own words.

 

In May 2020, after the corona crisis began, I was doing a personal project called "GRASP" for the ZOOM presentation competition for a year.

 

GRASP is a competition where speakers give presentations according to the theme each time.Everyone presents “freely” while expressing their individuality within the same theme.And there is a stage where you can express your thoughts in the given time.I really liked this.

 

I love the time when someone can speak freely and with a sense of security that they are being listened to..

I believe that presentations have that kind of power, and that they are the best way to do so.

 

I think it would be nice if I could have a presentation competition face-to-face someday. .No delusions!smile

Even now, I'm not particularly good at it, but I like it so much that I use PowerPoint to organize my thoughts, and I love presentations so much that I show them to my friends and family!smile

 

"I like warm places with no borders"

It's getting close to the summary, but I like "warm and borderless places".

Specifically,A place to support each other's challenges.A place where you can get close to someone's thoughts, whether you have a dream or not.

AndA place without borders, regardless of skin color, language, nationality, background, occupation or educational background.

 

I think each of us has our own definition of ourselves.

What does it mean for me to be myself?"To be who you want to be"English learning is necessary to prepare for life, learning and interaction with the global environment. <br> IT Skills (programming logic) is necessary to prepare for the needs of the future.<br> Financial literacy is necessary to prepare for creating, managing and being smart with time and wealth.<br>

I liked being able to be myself as a person called "Wakana Maeda".

 

This is because I didn't like myself, had no dreams or hopes, and there was a time when I felt so lonely that no one recognized me.

 

It was at that time that I met waya. When I went to waya, when someone looked me in the eye and listened to what I had to say, when I discovered something exciting, I made new discoveries, like, “I can feel this way..!”Because there was that warmth, there were people who supported me, so let's try it!I am who I am today because there was someone who reached out to me.

 

I like that kind of place.

 

"I like waya"

And it is thanks to waya that I am able to talk about my “favorite things” that I wrote above, and that I am able to take a journey called life.Waya was my starting point and turning point.

 

But surely, this is the world that I can see.I would be happy if you could tell me the waya that everyone can see!

 

Someday, I would like to talk about things like “I like this too!”, “I want to travel like this, right?”, and “What is the best size for rice balls?”.I would be very happy if you could just casually visit waya!I'm waiting with warm waya for the beginning of a new chapter.

 

In the second part of the blog, I wrote freely about "what I like".

 

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you who have come this far!

For those of you reading this, I cast a spell on you so that something good will happen today! ! !smile

Please support the new chapter waya and Wakana Maeda!

We are waiting for you at guesthouse waya!

 

Guest house waya manager Wakana Maeda