DR #189 “The Settlement of the First Half of the Year” 「2011年上半期の決算」

DR #189 “The Settlement of the First Half of the Year”　

I work at Daedeok College as a Japanese teacher now. This is the 2nd year as the school employed the semester system completely.

They say that the law concerning “interlocking professor” has changed and I can teach my classes less than 10 hours a week as an interlocking professor.

[With sophomores, 大徳大学精密機械システム科2年生、대덕대학정밀기계 시스템과 2학년]

Since they pay me hour-based salary, now I can get about 40 hour salary a month. So, it is difficult to meet ends every month.

[With freshmen-class 2, 大徳大学精密機械システム科1年生2班、대덕대학정밀기계 시스템과 1학년2반]

However, good news for me is that I have more free time than before. I decided to use my free hours to improve my health and physical power.

I increased the distance of everyday walk in the mountain and/or along the river up to 12 km - 15 km. I also increased power training such as sit-ups and push-ups and chin ups, each from 100 times to 300 times for a set. (Chin-up, from 10 to 30 times.)

The result of this increase of exercise turned up to be very effective for management of blood glucose level. Since I am diabetic, I check this level regularly. My HA1c level in February was 7.6, very bad. Then in April, it became 6.9, showed significant improvement. Then my recent test result turned out to be 6.1 so my doctor praised me for it. I am very happy.

So, I could not meet the economical balance but physically, I am well satisfied at the end of the 1st half of the year.

Fortunately, the school gave me opportunity to teach high-level students by creating extra-classes, besides regular academic classes. This is out of “interlock professor contract.”

I got 3-hour special classes for 20 times, in June and during the summer vacation and in the 2nd semester.

[The 3-hour Special Class students, 特講の授業者たち、특강 수강생들]

Now I finished the first semester in the middle of June. I also finished the special concentrated classes during the summer vacation last week and I am ready to go back to Japan next week.

Two families of my relatives in Fukushima and Ibaraki were hit by the recent disaster on March 11th. I will go and see them the next week I arrived in Japan.

I am going to see what I can do about this disaster after coming back to Japan.

Best Regards,

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DR189号「2011年上半期の決算」

大徳大学は完全二期制になって2年目。今年から1学期は15週となったため、授業数が減った。

[With freshmen-class 1, 大徳大学精密機械システム科1年生1班、대덕대학정밀기계 시스템과 1학년1반]

昨年から兼任教授の授業時間は1週間に10時間未満と法的に決まったようで、今学期も1週間9時間のみ授業。

私は実質上時間講師なのでその分収入も減るが、自由時間が増えた。今学期は特に日々の運動量の増加に努めた。

朝食後の裏山への登山は距離を伸ばして片道2km往復4kmとした。また、途中の筋トレも腕立て伏せ、腹筋、エアーウォークを100回から徐々に増やして現在は1セット300回。懸垂も10回から30回できるようになった。

このような運動量の増加は、血糖管理上、大いに効果があったようで、2月、4月、6月のHA1Cの値はそれぞれ7.7→6.9→6.1となった。この6.1という値は記録を取り始めてからの最善値である。

万歩計で日々の歩数も記録しているが、最近では常に2万歩から3万歩で、歩行距離もほぼ連日10km～15kmである。

経済的なバランスは収入より支出が大きい状態が続いているが、肉体的なバランスは得る所が大と言わざるを得ない。

また、感謝なことに6月に入ってから大学の兼任教授の他に、同じ大学の同じ学生対象ではあるが、能力別の特講クラスを任され、こちらは二学期も続くことになった。

[The 3-hour Special Class students, 特講の授業者たち、특강 수강생들]

一学期は6月中旬におわり、二学期は9月開講である。先週、夏季集中特講の授業も終わったので来週は帰国する。

帰国したら3/11で被害を受けた福島と北茨城の親戚を訪ねる予定だ。自分がこの未曾有 の大震災に対して何ができるかまだ分からないが、健康を感謝しつつ動こう。