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“A year without learning is a wasted year”
This is the default phrase I think of when I am about to finish a year. How was 2024? Let’s see by (1) Daily routine, (2) Major events and (3) Creation and Learning, hoping it might provide some insight into how to reflect your own 2024.
Daily routine
To be honest, returning to Japan and starting new center have messed up my daily routine. No excuse for 2025. I will improve ●Meditation, ●Learning, ●Journal/diary, ● Writing and ●Exercise more
Major events
●Countries traveled: 🇯🇵🇭🇰🇲🇴🇲🇿🇺🇸🇿🇦🇳🇦🇿🇼🇿🇲🇲🇬🇯🇵
●Countries introduced: 🇲🇿🇨🇱🇲🇬🇵🇪🇨🇦🇪🇸🇲🇽🇲🇺🇩🇰🇦🇷
●New start: 🌍 18 years →✈️🇯🇵 to start Global Learning Center to promote diversity and holistic skills – 3L Skills (Learn to Learn💡 Live 🌎 Love❤️)
●Jobs: Ministry of Education Advisor → SEL consultant + Writer + Lecturer + Writer
●Life skill projects:
Life skill project in Mozambique finished with big potential. It focused on the 10 competencies: (1) Communication, (2) Problem solving, (3.) Personal development and curiosity, (4) Persistence / grit, (5) Self-awareness, (6) Self-management, (7) Self-esteem, (8) Creativity, (9) Interpersonal relationship, (10) Wellbeing. All of the six target school disseminated to neighboring schools.
●Teaching and learning: I have conducted more than 50 trainings this year on different areas, such as life skill, wellbeing, etc. My Korean learning has been a bit stuck but now I can see the new world of 한글.
Creation and Learning
This blog’s theme is creativity, curiosity and learning, and I write the contents and draw the cover image and translate into 5 languages. It means the whole process is creation and learning, so reviewing my blog posts is a good way monitor this year. Below are this year’s blog posts / cover images.
●Happy New Year 2024 and Hidden words of 2023 drawing
●Initiative to Feel Closer to Africa and South America in Japan
●Obrigado Mozambique: A Two-Year Adventure of Learning and Growth Before the Next Chapter
●2nd Initiative to Bridge Japan with Africa and South America: Feel and Learn the World with 5 Senses
●5th Event – Feel the World Closer with 5 Senses – Spanish Edition
Also, we organized a diverse range of activities:
• Intercultural learning: Feel the world closer with your five senses (covering 4 continents and 9 countries so far), cooking classes from around the world
• Experiential learning of life skills: Sukiyari workshops, online meetings, eco-friendly hydroponic cultivation at home
• Self-expression around the world (art, dance, etc.)
• Glocal connections (activities connecting diverse Japanese people with foreigners, international bars, international evenings, etc.)
• World picture book library, games from around the world, dance from around the world
• Youth learning program
• Other external collaborations, training outsourcing, school lectures, etc.
The learning of this time
Reviewing 2024, I worked on habit skill via daily routine, captured major events and monitored creative and learning process to thrive and improve in 2025.
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