帰国した。

お久しぶりです。
9ヶ月の滞在を終え、昨夜日本に帰国しました。
エコノミーの狭い座席で、空港で買ったゴシップ雑誌を読んでいるとき、英語を読める喜び、使える喜びがこみあげて、思わずブルッと震えがきました。

さて、9ヶ月といえば、外国では赤ちゃんが生まれるまでにかかる期間と言われます。
私の留学は、果たして何を生み出すのでしょうか。

今日は、ケアンズで参加した日帰りツアーで仲良くなったオージー男性のツアーガイドさんに送ったメールをアップします。
彼はなぜか私を気に入ってくれて、地元民しか来ないという行きつけのパブに飲みに連れて行ってくれたりしました。
日本人観光客を扱った経験も豊富で、日本人のことをよくわかってくれているので、こんなメールを送りました。

以下本文です。

Thank you for your email.

Frankly, your tour was one of the best fun I had in my whole stay in Australia.
You were very very very well organized , yet unpredictable in a good way.
I think you can even get the same kind of job in Japan or be a comedian.
I met an Aussie tourguide in Sydney who's appeared on TV, movies and a kids show in Japan.
If you do, we can hung out anytime. So please come to Japan tomorrow and stay with me !!!

hehe...
Aforesaid was because I felt very dissapointed with the attitude of a taxi driver.
He, of course Japanese, spoke a polite language, but the attitude was very rude. I even felt being looked down.
You may know this as you stayed here for a long time.
We call this attitude `Ingin burei`

From this, you can see Japanese people tend to show an opposite facial expression or use an opposite language of what they want to use truly.
and that is confusing. I need some `Aussie elements` in my life. That's why I want you to come!!!


Even though I talked to people like I did in Australia, I couldn't receive any fine responce. All their faces seemed to be filled with tiredness.
Then I desperately realised that I came back.





Sorry to be negative. However I had a tiny seed of positiveness as well.
It was my younger brother. He prepared a cake and some of my favorite drinks for me secretly. That was actually very very generous of him, because I left him alone in Tokyo and also let him deal with some difficult contracts of mine related to the Internet, the payment of English lessons, newspapers.....and so on.
I must be extremely grateful to him.



I am thinking of starting some actions toward job hunting.
In my mail box was some interesting information about a little shipment company.
Maybe I can ask them for an opportunity to look inside of their office and see how their daily work is.
It is an outsider act as most newly grads meet Personnel staff firstly after they won a maths and sort of knowledge tests. These tests are implemented just to cut down on the number of candidate which sounds unreasonable for me.


So, I would rather seek a different way than just be cut down.
It is not certain if that company accepts this kind of sudden request, though if they truly want English bussiness material, they mustn't miss out the existence of me!
Hehe, too confident?
The only person who can motivate me is myself. So it works as a good way to cheer up myself.





Anyway, thank you for reading this long mail.
I miss you so much, but I feel by my sixth sense that we will get together again soon. :D
Until then, let's stay in touch.