I have taken two days off (today and tomorrow). This morning, I attended a Zoom meeting in English as usual. Today we talked about no special topics (yes, so-called "a weekly free talk day"). So we shared a lot such as how we spent this "obon" season, and also summer vacation time. As I have written in these journals, this season I have to work so hard because my office requires us the work (that's the meaning of being an employee at this office). But, that's also a meaningful experience for me.
After that meeting, I went to AEON as usual to write the draft I'd been writing for the presentation I would do next Thursday. As a source of that draft, I decided to remember a memory piece I had seen in the English conversation class. Also, I tried to read an interesting book, Masaaki Tonedachi's "English? No Way! [刀祢館正明『英語が出来ません』]". Even though I have just read various articles and books only (so, about this topic I need to "discuss" how the Japanese people have their obsessive minds to English), I can get some clues to complete this draft eventually. However, this week I have to go to a large hospital to cure my toothache so I have to care for my health enough not to cancel it.
Now, as some main topic of that, I am thinking these things. What makes us learn or "catch up" with so-called "vivid" English enough to communicate with "native" speakers? How about reading classical books such as Ernest Hemingway? I am not joking, but am speaking very seriously. The more I learn about various cultures (not only British and American ones, but also various foreign ones), the more I am certainly getting how important the legendary cultural heritages in each one's country, even though I have not known how the Japanese culture can have been yet.
This afternoon, after seeing the admin of my group home, I read a favorite book of mine, Natsuki Ikezawa's "Still Life [池澤夏樹『スティル・ライフ』]". After that, On Discord I wrote some fragments in Japanese as my memo. For example, how can I find out the so-called "reality" in various novels? For example, if I wrote my own novel from an autistic guy, could it become a real one? If so, how would it be?
