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I remember I laughlaughing twice duringwhile sleeping, it was weird. I woke up at 9 a.m. but I slept again. After Two hours later(later already indicates that it happened after, so the word "after" becomes redundant.), I got up and took a shower. I was able to refresh, then I studied English. I made a Japanese fooddish called "Oyako don" it means chicken and egg are parent and child, so this dish is "parent and child don". It is a little bit strange but I didn't think so when I lived in Japan. I went to work and went to get the luggage(not sure what you meant here, I'm going to guess it's some sort of package(s))packages tofrom the next door candy shop. We don't open in the morning but some luggagepackages  come in the morning. So theythe candy shop receives some luggagethe packages instead of us. It is so kind of their staffs. I had to carry the package up the stairs, bring up with the stares but the luggagepackage was so heavy, since it was so hard. Yesterday, we were understaffed, so it was a little bit busy.

introduce myself Introducing myself

Hello, I'm Ayaka.
This is themy first time to write notewriting a note here so I'm feeling really nervous.
Though I've been studying English for so long, I'm not confident within my English skills and I'm afraid of making mistakes.
However, I really want to go abroad and teach Japanese to many people.

Your English is pretty good!

Not sure what you meant by impressive, but I wrote something down 1. It is clear that attending class is important 2. Most students think that attending class is important. *Assuming the "university" part is supplied through context

I think the major reason is the visa requirement. With most passports you have to apply for a visa prior to departure which is kind of a hassle. At least this was the reason that my friends and I had when planning our trip to Asia.

Swimming

13/Apr/2016
writing / swimming

To be fair, I was never (much of a sport guy) Maybe "To be fair, I was never too into sports". While I was a student, I tended to read books rather than play something active outside .(rather than engage in outdoor activites?) Although I was thinking I'd like to tame (really awkward choice here, typically not used for humans, I'd prefer "force") myself to play sports, it seemed too late for me. To add, it was another problem for me not to have a something of sport sense(experience with sports?). By the way, I've been in Philippines to study English for 2 months, I just came up with(decided?) that this country is the best one to start learning how to swim. So, I had some swimming lesson at every weekend, and it took 1 month. Which was great, though it was somewhat fast-teaching.(I had swimming lessons every weekend for a month, which was great, though it was a bit too fast-paced). Anyway, I've become to be able to swim with several basic poses such as free style and frog kick, and so on. In fact, initially I could barely breathe during swimming, though. But I was really happy to make a sport be one of my hobby (to have a sport as one of my hobbies). Since I started making a living in Australia, I visit at a pool, sometimes. Honestly, I'd be exhausted right after finishing just two routines and happen to think what the hell am I doing, seeing some old guys who seemed never to stop their races in the pool. Nevertheless, I'm working on it.
I think swimming is likely to show my personal matter in itselfpersonality. To myFor some insight into myself, I've always hang on hung on to one thing too hard. While I was under learning swimming, it was the most frequency word I've heard from my tutor, the most frequent word I heard for my tutor was "Relax". Yes, I think I'd rather be relaxing in every aside in myself. Because, straining too strong would make it broken rather than bent(Not sure what you're trying to say here? Make what broken?) During my university, I was thinking too serious and rigid when it comes(came)to my major, Architecture. And someday, I've figured out it makes me and my works worse, and need to consider things more flexible and easy  I need to be more flexible. As it turns out, there is something I couldn't cope with, on nothing but excessive trying As it turns out, the one thing I couldn't cope with was not over exerting myself.

* Just did a quick pass, may have missed something. Overall, most of the mistakes were just instances of really awkward phrasing.

The second one is correct. Consider if you remove the other noun and you just tried saying " I am an elementary school student", this is perfectly fine. However, if you replace "I" with "me" it doesn't really work. I believe the more technical answer is that "I" is used as the subject of the sentence, but "me" should only be used as an object of a verb. 

I would say that it's definitely beneficial for the individual who doesn't know the basics of the language. I think the bigger question is, does this create a bad experience for the other party? If the other individual has no experience teaching total beginners a language, it can be very frustrating for them to try to help. I think Greg has the right idea in saying that it is more about reciprocity and having something you can offer the other person. If you are asking someone to help you from scratch, I think you need to be willing to spend more time helping them, than they spend helping you.