メイン州ウィンドハム高校に留学中の齋藤有里杏さんから、第1回目の留学報告が届きました。

           I’m Yuria Saito, I am staying in ME. I‘ve been in the US for a month. I felt like time’s going by so slowly. I already finished language camp in AZ, and came to ME. The temperature is going up and down, It’s hard for me. However, I am having a great time.

First, I’ll write about “Goal of study abroad”. My big goal is “Pour my all into the now”. When I came back in Japan, I want to be a person who can understand many new things, so I must study English now for that. There for I shouldn’t use Japanese, sleep all day, stay in my room. Anyway, I shouldn’t do what I can do in Japan. I must do what I can do in the US. If I can do like this, I will be a person who I want to be. I hope that.

           Next, I’ll write about “Home stay”. In AZ, to be honest I think it was little hard because my host mother was very busy person, so I often can’t see and talk. In addition, my host sister had boyfriend, they were always in their room, so I can’t talk to her. After school, I often stayed alone at home. Also, I often had dinner, and went to somewhere with another host family, but there wasn’t my host family, so I felt very sad. I don’t have memory that I did something with my host family. However, I could have wonderful time in AZ. I am grateful to those who had taken care of me in AZ. First in ME, I was confused many times. The people who met at the airport was different people who I thought host family. In addition, they were temporally host family. I thought “Who is my host family?”. Now, I stayed real host family’s house. They are really kind, so I felt happy.

メイン週に留学中の齊藤有里杏です。 英語でも述べたとおり、この留学での目標は今すべきことを全力ですることです。部屋でYouTube見たり、本読んだり、大好きなお昼寝をせず、ファミリーとなるべく居間で過ごしたり、お手伝いして会話の機会を増やそうと頑張っています。小さい目標だと英語に関するものがたくさんありますが、達成しようとするにあたってやっぱり思うのは、会話をするのがすごく難しいです。書く分には頭の中で好きなだけ考えてられるけど、会話中はそれができないし、それ以前に何を言っているか分からないです。あと相槌がうまくできないことに気づいたので、会話中に使われていた相槌表現をメモに取っています。

ホームステイに関しては、他人と暮らすのが意外と苦じゃなくて驚きました。日本人の性格上、お客様とか気を遣うとかあるけど、こっちの人は家族同然に接してくれて結構気楽です、もちろん感謝の気持ちは忘れていません。ただ短期のホストファミリーとは、いる時間が本当に短かったです。アルバム見返しても他のホストファミリーとの写真ばかりで少し寂しいですが、いい経験だと思います。来週から学校が始まるのでまた大変なことが増えると思いますが頑張ろうと思います。