藤本 ラーナの留学レポート

私は、夏休みの一か月間アデレードで留学をし、たくさんの経験をすることができました。

そのことについて少し紹介します。

 

私は、留学中Golden Grove High Schoolに通っていました。

まず、初日にはホストマザーと一緒に学校へ行くと北星以外の学校から同じく留学に来ている２人の日本人がいました。そして、担当の先生に時間割とその教室を教えてもらい、学校の案内をしてもらいました。そして、制服を貸してもらいました。実際に着てみるととても寒く感じました。その後に自分たちの荷物を入れるロッカーの場所とそのカギをもらいました。日本にはないようなものなので最初は扱いにくかったです。

私の一番好きだった科目は、演劇でした。演劇の先生もとてもやさしくよく「わかる？」と聞いてくれました。毎回授業の始めと終わりには簡単なゲームをしました。それはほかの生徒たちとも交流をとれたのでとても楽しかったです。授業の内容としては、不条理演劇でしたが、それは難しすぎるため私たちは別に日本語原作の映画やアニメを短く簡単に英語にして演じました。日本語や理科の授業が同じだった人はよく手を振ってくれたり、お昼を一緒に食べたり、放課後に学校の前にある小さなショッピングモールに行って話したりしました。

 

私のホストファミリーはホストマザーと犬だけで少し寂しいときもありましたが、私のホストマザーは明るく面白い人だったのでとても楽しめました。週末にはシティーや動物園に行ったり、ホストマザーの家族と食事に行ったり、ホストマザーと一緒にお菓子作りをしたりしてとても楽しい時間を過ごすことができました。時には、学校の近くのバス停から乗って30分くらいのところにあるショッピングモール行き、買い物したりしました。たまたまそこのショッピングモールがホストマザーの仕事場に近かったので、待ち合わせをして夜ご飯を一緒に食べたことが何度かありました。

 

私はこの一か月間でさまざまな感謝、大変さ、難しさなどを感じて今までにない経験をすることができました。わたしはこの一か月間で最も重要なことは自分の意見や考えを常に持ち続け、それをただ思うのではなく、他の人の意見とは関係なく、しっかりと発言し伝えることがとても重要だということを学びました。

 

This summer I went to Adelaide and I could experience a lot of things that I hadn’t before.

I will tell you a few things that I experienced in Adelaide.

 

I went to Golden Grove High School during my study in Adelaide. On my first day of school, I went to school with my host mother and I met two Japanese students who were also starting school that day. We met the teacher first, and then got are time schedules and looked around the school to know where the classrooms are. After that, we got are school uniform and once I wore it, it felt very cold for me. And we got are locker keys and went to the lockers to put my bags in. The lockers were a bit difficult to use for the first week because I do not use it in Japan. And I went for two classes which were left for the day.

 

The subject that I liked the most was drama. The drama teacher was very kind and always asked me if I understand the information. In the beginning and in the end of the class, we played some easy games so I could communicate with a lot of students at that time so it was very fun. In drama class, I was learning “the theater of absurd” which was very difficult. Since the class was too difficult, so I did something different things such as acting out Japanese anime or movies in English. It was a bit difficult in the beginning but in the end, I could act it out in front of the teacher and my classmates. The students who were in the same classes in Japanese and science class would often wave to me and I also ate lunch with them. Sometimes, we went to the small shopping mall in front of the school after we finished school.

 

I will tell you a little about my host family. My host family was only a host mother and a dog so I felt a little lonely in the beginning but since my host mother was a very cheerful and a funny woman, she always made me laugh so I had a great time there. In the weekends, I went to the city and went shopping or to the zoos or spend some time with my host mother’s family and made some Australian snacks with her. Every weekend was so exciting and I enjoyed completely everything. Sometimes I went to the shopping mall which was about 30 minutes by bus from my school and did some shopping there. Since the shopping mall is near my host mother’s work, we usually met after a couple of hours and ate dinner. I ate foods from different country and it was most that I had not eaten before.

 

Even though it was a short time in Adelaide, I came up to some difficulties, and I could feel thankful for a lot of things in my life and Japan so I think I experienced things that I had not before. In a month in Adelaide, I learned that the most important thing is to have your own opinion or ideas constantly and not only think about it, but to share your ideas or what you think.