Monday, June 05, 2006
DREAM IN BURGEON WAS LOST
1) ▼ I heard a large delightful shout on the way ahead. “Keep at it!” “Up with you!” Cheering voice came from the school ground. On Sunday, I passed by an elementary school in Tokyo, where a sports meet was being held.
2) ▼ It was at the height of a relay race between red and white teams, catching up, outrunning, dropping a baton, picking it up and passing it to the next. I stopped walking to watch them running in real earnest. Children compete against each other or cooperate with each other to achieve something. Their single-minded attitude appealed to people regardless of their difference in physical strength and performances.
3) ▼ On the wall of the school building, there was a sign board with decorative letters aligned sideways. “Win Glory! Toward Your Goal of Dream, Both Red and White.” Children divided into red and white compete against each other to reach goal. It is hard for adults to realize it in everyday life, but competing desperately may become a sweet memory in the future.
4) ▼ At another elementary school I happened to pass by on Sunday a week before, six graders were doing gymnastics in teams at a sports meet. They set up twofold or threefold human tiers. I enjoyed watching each team clasping hand in hand and folding their arms at their own pace rather than they tried to synchronize their movement as a show.
5) ▼ It is a hundred years since the elementary school was established. For many years since the Meiji era, children have never encountered danger as much as they do today even though we are in peacetime. Parents and grandparents who talked to their children or watching their children quietly in the school ground must have wished that a peaceful time they had at the sports meet would continue for good.
6) ▼ I hear that a first grader murdered at Fujisato-machi in Akita prefecture won the first prize in an 80-meter running race at the sports meet held last month. He wanted to be a carpenter when grown up. His dream in burgeon was deprived of by the hideous crime.
2) ▼ It was at the height of a relay race between red and white teams, catching up, outrunning, dropping a baton, picking it up and passing it to the next. I stopped walking to watch them running in real earnest. Children compete against each other or cooperate with each other to achieve something. Their single-minded attitude appealed to people regardless of their difference in physical strength and performances.
3) ▼ On the wall of the school building, there was a sign board with decorative letters aligned sideways. “Win Glory! Toward Your Goal of Dream, Both Red and White.” Children divided into red and white compete against each other to reach goal. It is hard for adults to realize it in everyday life, but competing desperately may become a sweet memory in the future.
4) ▼ At another elementary school I happened to pass by on Sunday a week before, six graders were doing gymnastics in teams at a sports meet. They set up twofold or threefold human tiers. I enjoyed watching each team clasping hand in hand and folding their arms at their own pace rather than they tried to synchronize their movement as a show.
5) ▼ It is a hundred years since the elementary school was established. For many years since the Meiji era, children have never encountered danger as much as they do today even though we are in peacetime. Parents and grandparents who talked to their children or watching their children quietly in the school ground must have wished that a peaceful time they had at the sports meet would continue for good.
6) ▼ I hear that a first grader murdered at Fujisato-machi in Akita prefecture won the first prize in an 80-meter running race at the sports meet held last month. He wanted to be a carpenter when grown up. His dream in burgeon was deprived of by the hideous crime.
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