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SCHEDULE

Will finish reviewing of 10 lessons on Vocabulary until 4PM and then head to the gym for one hour at least! 

Starting time 1:45PM. Be done until 5:30PM.

driver licence

F has an appointment to take a written driver exam. I will go with him and if it is possible, I am going to have the exam also. I am not sure if I can have the exam because of SSN, I don't have one :(.  I am kind of stressed for the exam, sometimes I make a mistake and that is simply because I am not patient enough to read completely and carefully all the question and its answers before choosing which one is true. Hope I can have the exam and make it. I need to get my driver licence as soon as possible. I could not go any place on my own and most of the days I stay at home and it is driving me crazy. Wish I had something special like job or school! Oh Gosh I can not believe it after 30 years I still have nothing special for myself. I should stop it otherwise I will start crying pretty soon.

Cross my fingers 

nothing

I feel really really bad, don't know why! somehow very down down and my heart aches and just want to cry and cry :(

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence is a really important skill for life and business.

Much research has shown that just being smart is not enough. As well as intelligence, you need emotional intelligence to work well with people. Here are five steps to help you develop and build your emotional intelligence. 

1- Know your emotions: Recognize how you are feeling in a business situation. Separate your thoughts and judgments of others from your emotional response.

2- Manage your emotions: Relaxation techniques, deep breathing, keeping a journal where you can express any negative emotions. These are all good ways to help you manage your own personal emotions.

3- Motivate yourself: Think what kind of situations do you have negative emotions. Maybe this kind of meeting or talking to this person. Think how you can act and behave differently to avoid this.

4- Recognize others' emotions: Try to understand how do other people feel in a given situation. Look at their body language, facial expression, as well as what they say to help understand how they feel.

5- Manage relationships: When working with people, don't just think about the business, numbers, and figures. Think how can you keep good emotional relationship by recognizing their emotions and respecting them. By showing understanding and working together.

So emotional intelligence, a very important skill for your business and life.

Good luck!

from http://www.englishcentral.com/en/player/11087/emotional-intelligence

Library

I was looking for someone who take a GRE exam so we can study together, but I really do not know anybody in our town. We got some friends from F's work and none of them of course wants to study again!

Today I went to the library (I could not go and register sooner because my name was not on our lease until yesterday afternoon) and got a membership card. The library seems to be a nice place to start studying. As I was searching for GRE books, I noticed most of the books are gone. It would be really great if I meet some of the guys who are studying for GRE in the library.

Today morning before I went to the library I was chatting with one of my friends in Montreal and he told me one of our mutual friends is also studying for GRE. I am not quit sure if it is a good idea to send her an email because normally she is not a friendly person to talk, she is kind but not easy to deal with. 

getting old

I was taking a test which calculates your age (or better to say the age of your brain). You need to solve some math calculation problems which are in fact very easy but you need to be fast and it makes it kind of not easy. I used to do the test and my brain age was always much younger than my actual age. Now, today after a year or so I took the test again and my brain age in not equal or higher than my actual age :( I am pretty sure that happened to me because now I have nothing to do and I don't use my brain as much as before and all these make me stressed so I even can not concentrate and do some easy calculations. It is just horrible. I am really frightened. Need to figure out something soon.

what I am gonna read

It has been a long time that I have not read any book (almost two weeks).  I was not sure which book should I read? Some days ago, one of my friends told me about the book she is reading. So I searched to see if Apple has the eBook. In between I noticed Apple store has all the Virginia Woolf's books. So now instead of reading the suggested book I am reading "day and night" By Virginia Woolf, hope to enjoy it.

I should find some activities besides studying for GRE, TOEFL and reading. I need to go out. Staying at home makes me sick :( but I am not dare enough to go out by myself and discover the new city.

  We were supposed to mail something to Iran, we both were kind of busy and lazy and kept forgetting it. So today I went to post office to mail something for F's parents and when I got there I noticed I had forgotten to take their address with me so I came back home and went to post office again. I am pretty sure my lifestyle makes me kind of sick, forgetful and stressed. 

 

 

exercise

I did a little GRE exercise, the result is pretty bad:( don't feel good at all

in a new city, in a new home

I came to CA two weeks ago. Now I can say I kind of like being in our new home in our new city. However F is at work all the weekdays and he usually comes back home late; depends on how much they have work, he may stay until 7 or 8! The only problem is I can not drive our car so I mostly stay at home or just go for a short walk. It is OK after all I should start to study or find a job and in a very short time I am going to be busy (cross your fingers please). The weather is just unbelievably wonderful, no more bad and unexpected weather, yay.

I became so lazy and stopped going to gym, I was kind of in a good shape before I left Montreal! I should start exercising again. I should make a plan for myself again.

GRE

I should start to study for GRE but I have no plan and without any specific plan I am gonna waste my time surely. The first step I need to find a good source to see which books I need to study!