自然と出るユーモアのセンスを磨きたい
今日、１月７日から地元の倉賀野小・中学校では3学期が始まります。このため、これから１週間、毎朝７時３０分からの登校時に、私は仲間と共に通学路を歩きながら「交通指導」と「挨拶運動」を行います。終わってから朝食です。きっと寒いでしょうが、「未来ある子供たちのため」に私なりにできることを行います。
子供たちは多くの場合、仲間と楽しそうに話しながら登校しますが、中には「一人ぼっち」で登校する子供が見受けられます。どちらにも声を掛けますが、特に一人で歩いてる子には必ず声を掛け、例えば「冬休みは楽しかったですか。」などと、話しかけるように心掛け「社会は一人ぼっちでないこと」を実感させたいです。
ところで、大人社会においても、日本人は比較的に表現力に乏しく、概して、ユーモアのセンスがあまりないといわれます。拙い体験では一人で行った内モンゴルでもインドでも、平素の会話やスビーチにおいて「ユーモアが大切な要素」であったと感じてます。一般論として、外国人との会話では５分間に一度位は笑いがないと、真に友好を望んでいるか否かまで問われがちです。
島国のため、昔から外国人と接触の少ない日本人は「言葉より互いの表情が大切」のように感じても、やはり、言葉ではっきり会話し、ユーモアのセンスを磨いて友好関係を築きたいものです。実は、私は今日は予定が立て込んでおり、朝の交通指導に始まり、午前中は証券会社で今後の経済動向の指導受け、午後は久々に喫茶「さんぼ道」へ、そして、夜は仲間との「新年会」です。どこででも楽しく過ごしたいです。
Dear my overseas friends who are interested in Nature and great music.
The simultaneous interpretation for your understanding will be done after my breakfast Japan time.
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Today, January 7th, the third semester begins at the local Kuragano-Elementary and Junior High School. For this reason, during one week, every morning from 7:30 a.m., I will walk the route to school for traffic guidance and a greeting campaign. After that, it's time for breakfast. I'm sure it's cold, but I will do for the children who have the brilliant future.
Many children walk to school with chatting happily with their friends, but some children walk to school alone. I talk to both, but I always talk to children who is walking alone, for example, by asking, "Did you enjoy your winter break?" I want them to realize that they are not alone in society.
Incidentally, even in adult society, it is said that Japanese people are relatively poor at expressing themselves at conversation and generally do not have much of a sense of humor. In my limited experience, both in Inner Mongolia where I went alone to meet my pigeon that strayed into Inner Mongolia, and in India as a teacher of Japanese school, I felt that humor was an important and indispensable element in everyday conversations and interactions. Generally speaking, if we don't laugh at least once every five minutes in a conversation with foreigners, people there will question whether I am truly seeking friendship or not.
As an island nation, Japanese people have had little contact with foreigners since ancient time, and although they may tend to feel that "facial expressions are more important than words," we should to communicate clearly and hone our sense of humor to build friendly relationships. In fact, I have a busy schedule today, starting with traffic instruction in the morning, receiving guidance on future economic trends at a securities company near the Takasaki-station in the morning, going to the "Sambo-michi" cafe for the first time in this year in the afternoon, and then having a "New Year's party" with friends in the down town of Takasaki-city in the evening. I want to have fun wherever I am.
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