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Cried in front of employer Tears welled up in my eyes because I'm disappointed with myself. She just wanted tot talk to me about work. I worked hard but there was just a different mind between us. Anyway it was not her fault. Actually I've felt good since I came here. I've spent time with just mixed feelings of anxiety and anticipation and missing my country. But crying made me feel relaxed. I find I have to change my mind to be proactive not consavative.

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I Cried in front of employer my boss

Tears welled up in my eyes because I'm I was* disappointed with in myself. She just wanted tot talk to me about work. I worked had been working** hard but there was just a different mind difference of opinion*** between us. Anyway it was not her fault. Actually I've felt good since I came here. I've spent time with just mixed feelings of anxiety and anticipation and missing my country. But crying made me feel relaxed. I find I have to change my mind to be more proactive not consavative and less conservative.

Natsumi-san, this was a nice, thoughtful article. (I almost called it a "piece" which can mean any "piece of work" - music, painting, etc. - and we use it in magazine writing to mean any article).

 * "I was disappointed in myself" - Keep it in the Past Tense. "Tears welled up. . ." is in the past, so the feeling of disappointment should also take place in the past. "Disappointed with myself" is okay, but "disappointed in myself" is more natural, I think. 

** "I had been working hard." It's better to use the Past Continuous Tense to say that over a period of time, this is what you had been doing. I have been learning a similar thing in Japanese. The difference between Simple Past ("I worked") and Past Continous ("I had been working") is similar to the difference between しました and していました (よく食べました vs よく食べていました).

*** I don't know exactly what you meant about "different mind." "Difference of opinion" means that you disagreed about something. But you may have meant "misunderstanding".


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