I worked early today. This morning, at the Zoom meeting for English learners, we talked about a piece of news that told us what British people think about universities (that one said young people tend to think that they would become a waste of time). Afterward, we shared how the system of universities should work for us. For example, in my case, I had just thought that the process of a university must have meant a sort of "leisure", the period when I just could enjoy doing various youthful activities which youthful cultures describe. Romances, drinking alcohol for the first time, and also part-time jobs...
In my case, I joined a large university (probably because of a miracle). It was about 30 years ago... I chose English literature, especially American literature to study, even though I had never read Shakespeare or any other great poets and authors. Although I had thought I was no snob enough to think that what university I belonged to would decide my life's road completely until death, maybe I could be so... After that, I had to struggle for a long time to find out the simple fact of this, an autistic person, am I.
At that period, however, I could never predict this world would become like this. No way! Now, I could have found a certain great system of welfare in this town, or this country that enables me to use a marvelous group home (it's like another family of mine) and also a job coach system. Oh, life must be a miracle... Anyway, even though some users on Twitter tend to say that my generation (a so-called "lost generation") must be a desperate, completely lost one because it seemed no clear help for us has appeared. But about this topic, I need to think more carefully enough to keep on having calm/steady, serial discussions with trustworthy people.
After today's work, I went back to my group home. Having dinner, I wrote a draft for the meeting I would do more. About the system of English education in schools, and how we the Japanese tend to think about it. When I was a college student, I could never think that the ability of English like this would literally "help" me a lot. Yes. it can happen in his life, this world. Therefore, as an autistic guy who must have very short-sighted eyes, I need to think about this topic from various virtual viewpoints as carefully as possible.
