One of your fondest childhood memories
Now, I came back to my homestay, and I am in rush of writing this blog. I have played “seek and hide” with boys and girls who were friends of my host brothers. It was not same as Japanese seek and hide because after we hided ourselves, we also had to run away from the tagger in here, so it was like the mixing game of seen and hide plus tag; however, I enjoyed a lot. I think I am still young! I remembered we had played normal seek and hide a lot in Japan when I was child, then it also reminded me of the fondest my childhood memories.
My fondest childhood memory is “Ninjya make-believe”,; we have called it "Ninjya- gokko" . Ninjya is a kind of Japanese spy. It was that we can be Ninjya, and we trained as Ninya.
When I was 10 years old, I and my two cousins found small space for playing at my grandfather’s yard. After we found it, we decided there was our secret “Ninya refuge”, and we made a Ninjya team. We have trained how to run fast, how to stay silently, and my grandfather made bows from bamboo, so we have practiced the bow. We have played seek and hide, but it is really serious for us, because we are Ninjya. If you were found, we have to escape from them! or fight with them. So sometimes we escaped well as Canadian seek and hide, and it was so excited for me. I remember my oldest cousin said “this is our secret refuge, so don’t tell anyone”. My heart was beating when I heard it, and it is so good old days for me.
After “now”, what will you do? I got a time to think about my future because my friends will leave soon, and my Japanese friends already had started job hunting in Japan, so I was thinking what I would do in the future. I sometimes I forget why I am here now because my major is Japanese modern literature, but I’ve studied English in IEP. This is not normal study case in Japan, so I feel worried about my future job, or life. Of course I do not know all these studies are going to be effective for job hunting or not, but I sometimes became to be lazy to do anything, and nowadays, I was lazy because I was tired of thinking my future and studying English …
However, this weekend was busy for me, so I do not have time to just sleep in my room. I had some parties with my friends. I went to a pub on Saturday. I was talking with some people like bartenders and waitresses. I just tell names of drinks and snacks, but they could not hear well. And I also went to Hikaru’s host house on Sunday, and almost all family came there, and we ate supper together; then I and Hikaru play with children. It was so excited and aggressive exercise as usual, and we talked a lot. A boy was pretending being Santa Clause (I don’t know why), and he asked me something I want in Xmas and so on, but I could not pronounce those words well; then he could not understand soon. Also, I went to convenience store and I asked a clerk “I am looking for cookies”, but I was asked again. These experiences were annoying for me because I’ve thought I can speak with anyone now, but it was wrong. But, they reminded me why I am here… I just want to talk many people as well as possible. Nowadays I just care about future jobs or licenses, but I remember I just want to become be the person who can talk with many people in some language. It is simple, but it is also easy to forget. I could remember that feeling, and I will try keeping this in my mind in the future, so it will also help me. Also, I will study hard from today.
