Following the Old Track - Part1

 Today, I’d like to write about one of my past experiences to take a break. A few of the bloggers here might know that I’m from Korea. When I was in Korea before I came to Japan, I had just finished my two-year-course college. I specialized in Aromatherapy, and it’s the topic that I like to talk about. It might be too long and you’d get sick of reading it, so I’m going to separate this posting into 2 parts. Part 1 is basically about the background of my major and herb growing class, and the part 2 is about making cosmetics/soaps/candles classes and volunteering.

First of all, now I can tell you that I’m really interested in aromatherapy, but at first I didn’t want to choose the major because I was not interested in herbs or aromatherapy at all. For a specific reason, I couldn’t enter an art university where I wanted to go and I needed to make a choice that time. After I started learning it at school, my mind had changed. Anyway, the thing that made me interested in was the classes for making things with aroma oils and herbs. I found the mystery of plants, for example, the healing power of herbs and the beauty of nature during the course.

Lavender is the most useful herb in Aromatherapy especially for relaxing.

Since its essential oil is safer than other oils to use, children can have treatment with lavender oil.

Only about over 100 students were in my major. I think it was because not many people in Korea know about aromatherapy, and it might be hard to find that kind of study especially at University. The popularity for students was pretty low, but I found a lot of interesting classes. They were basically about chemistry that can be separated into essential oils and medical science. I didn’t really like the course of medical science for some reason except the massage class, but the herb classes were very interesting.

 In the campus of my ex-college, there was a small herb farm, and I took the herb growing class there. I had a very good time, and I found out that I’m a talented farmer. It was a joy that taking some of my lavenders and make dried herbs for my place, but my favorite herb was rosemary. I loved the smell and taking care of it, so I made a small rosemary garden which was the most beautiful part of the farm (in my opinion). I also used the rosemary that I grew for cooking, especially with meat dishes. If you want to remove the smell of fish or pork, you should add some fresh rosemary in it. Well, but it’s not only rosemary that makes a big difference in your cooking life. There are various herbs that you can use for food. Herbs are useful to add flavor too.

The upper left corner of the herb farm in my ex-college.

There were 3 parts of 'Rosemary Garden' (it's still growing).

 In the part 2, you’ll see different activities as making soaps and candles in class.