西　明歩　の留学レポート

I went to Adelaide of Australia about for a month. I was looking forward to meet them before I meet my host family, but I was getting nervous when I met them in the airport. At first I was happy but gradually became nervous, and only the mother came to the airport. Then, we went to her house. When I went to backyard of house, family and their friends were making sausages. Because my family is Italy and also their friends is Italy, too. I saw making sausages for the first time. That was so strange and interesting for me. And my host family’s member is maybe 5 people, host mother, host father, host older sister and two older brothers. The top older brother got married and lives in Melbourne so they are not live together. Just come to Adelaide a few days. And they have 3 dogs and 5 chickens. Everyone finished making sausages and eating meals in the living room. I was nervous and could not talk much.　But they were very kind to me. That is made me happy. Next day, I spent a holiday alone until my family came home. Because every family member is working. So I felt very lonely at sad. And I cannot go to anywhere with my host family. So I only went out with my friends or I spent most of the day in the room and as my family did not take me anywhere, he took me to a zoo or party with a family of Kyoka Nagasawa my family did not take me anywhere, he took me to a zoo or party with a family of Kyoto. Finally I went to school on Monday and decided classes. I could not choose the lesson I chose in Japan. That was so sad for me because I wanted to attend an art lesson. And next day, I went to Charles Campbell College School.. There was a lot of Japanese and Chinese. I think that half of the students are Asians. So I spent a lot of time with Japanese. And I got a few Chinese friends for the first time in my life. I have noticed about Chinese and learned a lot of things from them. I was walking home with a Chinese man every after school because he lives near my family’s house. He is likes Japan very much and he is interesting in Japanese culture. I was surprised because the Chinese thought that they are not like Japan, so I was happy hearing that. He took me to a cat café with his 2 Chinese friends, and I thought that they are so kind to me. Because they were speaking with Chinese while I am with them. He took me to eat Chinese food. That is for the first time for me. It was so delicious. Because I did not have a metro card, I lent the card all day. That day was very fun and became great memory for me. I didn’t have good images to China because Japanese news is always telling us almost bad image, but Chinese was very kind. My image for China was changed. So I learned to have prejudice is not good.