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Chrisが日本に来てから衝撃を受けたことを話してくれました😄
首都圏でも田舎でも子供たちが子供たちだけで通学している姿を日本ではよく見かけますよね。
でも、海外から来た講師達には不思議な光景なんだそうです。
6歳くらいの子が一人で電車に乗って通学してるのを見て、あまりにビックリして周りを見渡して親御様の姿を探した！そうです😆
Chrisの話を読んでいきましょう。
One of the things that really surprised me when I moved to Japan was how often I see unsupervised children. I moved from Los Angeles to Osaka in 2017. Both are large cities with millions of people but the way that children traverse these two cities couldn’t be any more different.
（子供たちが一人で行動してるのを見て驚いたみたいです。L.A.と大阪では子供たちの通学が全然違うようですね。）
I was so shocked to see school children, who appeared to be 6 or 7 years old, quite confidently maneuver their way through Osaka Station, tap their ICOCA cards and board trains, all without any adult supervision. Just out there commuting to and from school like salarymen going to work. The first few times I witnessed this I wondered to myself where their parents were and why could they possibly be out in the world by themselves like this.
（大人が通勤するように通学する6歳か7歳の子を初めて目にしたんでしょうね。親御様がどこにいるのか周りを探したみたいです。日本では、目にする光景ですよね。）
In Los Angeles, if I saw a 13 or 14 year old kid by themselves I would wonder where their parents were. If I saw a 6 year old by themselves, I might look around for a police officer and ask them to help the kid find his or her way. I have two nieces that are 11 and 14 years old and my brother or my sister-in-law still pick them up from school everyday. When I was young, I lived in the countryside, far away from the big city, but still, I took the school bus to and from school everyday. It picked me up directly in front of my house and dropped me off at the school.
（L.A.では、13歳や14歳の子が一人でいると親御様を探すんですね。州によっては、一人で留守番できる年齢が法律で決まっているようです。外出も州によって法律があるみたいです。16歳や17歳でも大人の監視なしで、場合によって最大2日までだそうです。Chrisの姪っ子や甥っ子は、親御様が学校に迎えに行っているみたいですね。共働きの家庭は大変ですね。バスが家の前まで来てくれるはいいですね。）
I think the difference between the two situations, Japan and the US, comes down to the safety of the countries. As I’ve come to learn, Japan is one of the safest nations on the planet, safe enough for small children to travel through the city without fear. Whereas, in the US there is more crime. The possibility of something happening to an unsupervised child in the US is greater than it is in Japan. Having grown up there, I don’t really consider the US to be an inherently dangerous place, but I do consider Japan to be an unusually safe place in comparison with the rest of the world. And this amazing level of safety that I find unusual has led to, what seems to me to be, an unusual level of freedom for the children of Japan.
（Chrisが子供のころアメリカで生活をして治安が悪いと危険を感じたことがないようですが、それ以上に日本は平和な国なんだとこの光景を見て感じたようです。）
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One of the first things in Japan that I noticed was different from where I come from is the price of fruit. I was very shocked when I first came to Japan to see a melon for sale in a grocery store in Kobe for nearly ¥3000! I was so surprised that I took a photo of it to send to my friends in the US. I’m from Los Angeles and the average price of a melon is about $2.75 (about ¥316). And it’s not just melons, all fruit and vegetables seem to be more expensive here in Japan. I regularly pay about ¥600 for a bag of 6 or 7 oranges at the grocery store here in Takamatsu and in Los Angeles, I would get a bag of 10 or 12 oranges for about $3.00 (¥345). Tomatoes here are usually about ¥100 each, in LA you can get a package of 6 for about $2.00 (¥230).
I lived in an area that typically got a lot of snow every winter. January and February temperatures often went down to -20C or even -30C. And my hometown was located just south of Ontario Lake, one of the 5 Great Lakes. Cold wind would blow south from Canada, pick up moisture over Ontario Lake and then drop A LOT of snow in my area. 30cm on the ground throughout January and February was not uncommon and at times it could be up to a meter deep!
I remember very clearly waking up on snowy mornings and being so excited by the possibility of a day off school. I grew up before the internet was around so school closings were announced on the local radio stations. My brother and I would get ready for school as normal, just in case it wasn’t closed. But we would listen to the announcements on the radio, anxiously waiting to hear the name of our school. The announcers would read the names of all the area schools that were closed for the day and the list would be updated every 15 minutes or so. I can’t even tell you how disappointed my brother and I were when schools all around us were closed but ours remained open. But on those mornings that we heard the name of our school announced, we were absolutely thrilled. Usually, school clothes would immediately come off, winter clothes would be put on and we would head outside to play in the snow. Then, as I got older and became a high school student, snow days just became days that I could stay home and watch TV or practice guitar. Not as whimsical as when I was younger, but still fun!
There is no representation for Wales, whose flag contains a dragon, which I think would be an amazing addition to my home nations flag.
You might had just read the United States in the above list and been confused. The Union Jack and the Star Spangled Banner that America uses have the same colors but they don’t look alike. Well, the United States first flag, called the Grand Union Flag was based on the Union Jack, and it’s design has been left seen in Hawaii’s national flag. So as you can see the Union Jack flag is a historically important flag.
So, Valentine’s Day in the US may sound a bit like White Day to you, the day in Japan when the man buys gifts for the woman. This is definitely true, they are very similar. The main difference between our two countries is that we don’t have a day like Japanese Valentine’s Day. There is no romantic holiday where women are expected to buy gifts or chocolate for men. We have Valentine’s Day on February 14th where the man is expected to buy gifts for his wife or girlfriend, but no opposite holiday! Basically, a man can expect to receive gifts on Christmas or his birthday and that’s about it.
中級コースでは、
会話のキャッチボールをスムーズに出来るように練習するのが、この中級コース”
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