Hello !

Nice to meet you.
I'm Himawari which means sunflower in Japanese. Please call me "Hima". Himawari is my nickname on the net. I choose this name because my mom plants 3 himawari(sunflowers) every year and calls them my and my brother's names.

I've had several blogs in Japanese since 2004, and this is the first blog in English and Korean. I feel a little bit nervous.

When I was a student, I really hated English lessons and never imagened I would be able to use English. I visited my ex-coworker who homestayed in England in the summer of 1998 and it must be the tarning point I got interested in languages. I spent whole week with her host-parents and they must have had tough time because I couldn't understand English at all. I hadn't had care that I didn't understand English until that but I felt sorry for them because I couldn't express my appreciate in words. I started to go to language school a half year later and I went to stay in Canada for nine months in 2001. I had a really great time there. I got a lot of good friend who came from all over the world. Time flies. Unfortunately I have only few friends I keep in touch with. Most of them are Korean and they can speak Japanese, so I always wanted to study Korean but there weren't any schools in my hometown and I don't have any power to study all by myself. Last year I moved to a pretty big city and I started to go to school for learning Korean. I'm wondering I "learn" Korean...I think more just enjoy it?

My hobby is reading books, watching dramas, and internet.
I know my language skill is not good but I found I like meeting people even though all of my hobbies are something I do alone in my home. So...I'm going to add "learning languages" or "communication in several languages" to the list of my hobbies.

I hope I keep writing this blog. I have to look for topics.