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Week 20
It was a little unusual that I slept more than 12 hours a day for four consecutive days this week. After waking up, I spent the day reading, writing and teaching, and I still felt sleepy. This made me feel stressed, like “What unproductive days! How stupid I am”. I concentrated on writing up my read more
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Week 19
I attended a session on Ethnography and found it very interesting and useful. My research includes fieldwork. Although I have been preparing for my field research, I didn’t have a precise vision for things such as the schedule, procedure, and lists of questions for interviews. The session gave me abundant information and instructions about fieldwork read more
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Week 18
The main event of week 18 was Luca’s birthday. I cooked lasagna and baked a chocolate birthday cake. We spent the whole day on Saturday having a luncheon party with his friends, going to watch WWE UK wrestling, and having drinks afterwards. To enjoy those birthday events, I managed to submit my work by Friday read more
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Week 17
Week 17 was busy with three seminars and extra reading. I need to finish writing another 2,000-word review of my reading. One of my supervisors allowed me to sit in on her module at medical school, which discussed the topic of end of life care. I observed the medical students’ consultations with older patients in read more
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Day off
On Saturday, I read a book on positive psychology, how to restore confidence and how to make myself motivated again. Following the instructions in the book, I made a list of my goals and top 10 priorities. My research eventually came out as the number one priority. I am feeling a little better. On Sunday, read more
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Week 16
Last weekend, Luca and I went to our favourite restaurant, Italia Nostra. There, he gave me a surprise card for Easter. It was my first time celebrating Easter in the UK. I still need to revise a large portion of my research protocol and adjust the initial schedule. I have already spent four months revising read more
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Week 15
I have been working on several tasks, editing my research protocol, writing literature reviews on two main themes, and preparing ethics forms. The biggest achievement in week 15 was receiving approval to record audio for my data, which is a very positive step in the right direction. It means I am realistically able to continue read more
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Blossom
For the past few days, I have been talking to my family. They said how beautiful Japan’s cherry blossoms are this year. I am badly missing my family, partly because we are on an Easter break so most of the students are back home, and partly because of the stagnant situation of my research. The read more
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