「日本・・・寒い・・・いやだ・・・」
「What?何言ってる?日本いい国だよ!(笑)Don't you think you are very lucky to be in Japan?」
「ん・・・。」
友人の冗談の質問に真剣に考えさせられた。
実は、「日本にいられるって本当によかったね。」と何度も自分の頭に繰り返して考えてたが、今日は新宿行きの電車に乗っていた間、友だちの質問を思い出し、電車の外側を眺めながら、その質問の答えを尋ね求めた。
「本当にラッキーかな?」
「ここは本当に自分の国よりいいの?」
「何がいいの?」
「自分の国にはない物が日本にあるの?」
「日本にあるものは自分の国では見つけられないの?」
ひとつの質問に次の質問が生じ、質問だらけで、相模大野から新宿まで50分かかったのに、答えは
なかなか、なかった。
「なんて難しい質問だなあ」と、電車を降りて、駅を出て、
日差しが眩しかった。
どこにいても、太陽は同じ。人間は同じ。私は同じ。
ただ、
心が一つ。
心のいる場は一つしかない。そこはやはり、家だ。
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Saturday, 17 October 2009
お金のない危機感
最近バイト始めた。毎週ほぼ毎日もバイトの予定が入ってる。
自分の身体が病気がちなので、長時間立ちっぱなしとか、体力が必要な仕事は自分に合わないって知っているから、バイトは英語教師に決まった。
でも、バイト、今、始めたのは早すぎるかしら?
12月にある日本語能力試験で1級を受けることにした。合格できるには自信が全然ない。
ストレスはたまってる。バイトしなくても勉強する時間はもう限ってるのに、バイトを始めた。
なぜかというと、私はお金がないことに緊張感を持っているからだ。
最近いろいろでお金の使いすぎ、来年引越しや新学期の費用でお金は貯めないといけない。
一応国費留学生なんだけど、毎月もらっている生活費はぎりぎり生活が維持できるけれど、急にお金を使う必要があるなら、現在持っているお金は絶対に不足だ。
一人暮らし、しかも、海外で一人暮らし・・・
自分の国と家にいるの良さはやっと・・・
わかるようになった。
自分の身体が病気がちなので、長時間立ちっぱなしとか、体力が必要な仕事は自分に合わないって知っているから、バイトは英語教師に決まった。
でも、バイト、今、始めたのは早すぎるかしら?
12月にある日本語能力試験で1級を受けることにした。合格できるには自信が全然ない。
ストレスはたまってる。バイトしなくても勉強する時間はもう限ってるのに、バイトを始めた。
なぜかというと、私はお金がないことに緊張感を持っているからだ。
最近いろいろでお金の使いすぎ、来年引越しや新学期の費用でお金は貯めないといけない。
一応国費留学生なんだけど、毎月もらっている生活費はぎりぎり生活が維持できるけれど、急にお金を使う必要があるなら、現在持っているお金は絶対に不足だ。
一人暮らし、しかも、海外で一人暮らし・・・
自分の国と家にいるの良さはやっと・・・
わかるようになった。
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Busy eating good stuff...
Recently, i think i've been busy eating good stuff...LOL!
The university girls from my school's free-talk session brought me to this dessert shop near Nishi-Shinjuku and decided that they'd treat me to that Red-bean uhh...puff? bun? with fresh cream inside. It was interestingly combined with the ever-so-bitter maccha (green tea) that Japanese drink during tea ceremony. The tea doesn't taste bitter, which i first feared, after eating the red-bean "pie" because it's sweet. =D


Then, last Saturday, we decided to go all the way to Chiba (Tsudanuma) to meet up with Ricchan and her lovely boyfriend(?fiance? lolx), Takumi, who took us for a drive, treated us to pasta, then brought us to a beach with water dyed in an amazingly disgusting brown colour.....The water is clean though, just that the colour is uhh...yucky~ >_<


Then, we headed over to her "house", don't ask me why i quoted her "house"...just that...oh well...we went over to her father's property to have dinner. Apparently, Ricchan's dad ordered the most expensive sushi he could find on the menu as a treat.
That whole set cost around ten thousand yen, if i'm not wrong. It's all good stuff...uhh..not GOOD...it's all PREMIUM STUFF!! Walk into a normal sushi shop and you'd have to eat ONE piece of those at around 300 yen.

Oh boy...how do i seem, eating to my fill for the past week...HAHA~
The university girls from my school's free-talk session brought me to this dessert shop near Nishi-Shinjuku and decided that they'd treat me to that Red-bean uhh...puff? bun? with fresh cream inside. It was interestingly combined with the ever-so-bitter maccha (green tea) that Japanese drink during tea ceremony. The tea doesn't taste bitter, which i first feared, after eating the red-bean "pie" because it's sweet. =D


Then, last Saturday, we decided to go all the way to Chiba (Tsudanuma) to meet up with Ricchan and her lovely boyfriend(?fiance? lolx), Takumi, who took us for a drive, treated us to pasta, then brought us to a beach with water dyed in an amazingly disgusting brown colour.....The water is clean though, just that the colour is uhh...yucky~ >_<


Then, we headed over to her "house", don't ask me why i quoted her "house"...just that...oh well...we went over to her father's property to have dinner. Apparently, Ricchan's dad ordered the most expensive sushi he could find on the menu as a treat.
That whole set cost around ten thousand yen, if i'm not wrong. It's all good stuff...uhh..not GOOD...it's all PREMIUM STUFF!! Walk into a normal sushi shop and you'd have to eat ONE piece of those at around 300 yen.

Oh boy...how do i seem, eating to my fill for the past week...HAHA~
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
The "weirdo" season on the train begins...
Summer...in Japan...
As summer comes, girls' clothing naturally become thinner and ... less. That's when the amount of gropers on the trains increase. Even if a girl's arse doesn't get groped, some guy may have a secret camera hidden somewhere and may take a picture from underneath a girl's skirt.
"Beer Garden" sessions also increase in summer. There will be lots of drunkards on trains and train platforms, naturally. Some drunkard might "accidentally" push someone onto a train track. Or, in my case, some old drunk man approached me on the train yesterday and started talking about the sky, the clouds, my shoes and his age......If he didn't get off at the next station, i would have gotten off.
The number of weird people increases during this season......Heat does strange things to people, huh?
As summer comes, girls' clothing naturally become thinner and ... less. That's when the amount of gropers on the trains increase. Even if a girl's arse doesn't get groped, some guy may have a secret camera hidden somewhere and may take a picture from underneath a girl's skirt.
"Beer Garden" sessions also increase in summer. There will be lots of drunkards on trains and train platforms, naturally. Some drunkard might "accidentally" push someone onto a train track. Or, in my case, some old drunk man approached me on the train yesterday and started talking about the sky, the clouds, my shoes and his age......If he didn't get off at the next station, i would have gotten off.
The number of weird people increases during this season......Heat does strange things to people, huh?
Friday, 12 June 2009
Tokyo from the Top
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