Aloha！
初めてこのようなブログを立ち上げました。私の言葉が、こうして私の中に留まらずに外へと出て行って公になることに、正直こわいという気持ちがあり、そして未知なる可能性にわくわくしています。まるで
自分の子供を初めてのお使いへ出すような気持ちです。（まだ自分の子供はいないので、正確には分かりませんが、きっとこんな気持ちになるのでは。）
それでも、私の「気持ち」たちが私の知らない間にこうにも逞しく（たくましく）なって、「外へ出ていきたい！」と私に伝えてきたことと、それを許せるだけの度胸がついた自分を褒めたいと思います。
このブログを立ち上げた理由は、日本にいる家族、それから世界中にいる友達たちに手紙を毎月書きたいけど、その時間が割けないので、このブログに訪れてもらえれば、みんなと繋がっていられるかなと思ったからです。
時 間のある時に、出来るだけ更新していけたらと思います。(日本語を暫く書いていないので、表現や言葉使いが変なことがあるかと思いますが、どうかご了承 ください。そして、下に見えますように英語でも書いていますが、英語もパーフェクトではありませんので、ご了承ください。二つの言葉の狭間に佇んでしまう ことが多々あります・・・。もう少し英語が上達すれば、この症状も落ち着くと思うのですが。）
それでは、私の新たな旅発ちを応援願いたい！
みんな、ありがとう。
[写真：Iao Valley（イアオ バリー・渓谷）の内側からカフルイ（マウイの中心）を見渡した眺めです。］
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Aloha!
This is my very first time to have my own blog! I am a little bit anxious about publishing my words on a public place, called on-line, but I am also excited at the future possibilities that this blog will bring to me. It's like sending my small child for grocery shopping on his own for his first time. (I don't have my child yet, so I don't know if this is ture or not, but I guess I will feel like this.) (I think that it's not common to send a small child, like five or six years old, for grocery shopping here in America because I don't see small children at grocery stores by themselves. It is common in Japan; it's like a rite of passage. I remember that I could not help to follow my brother when my mother sent him for his first time. I was so proud of him when he got home with vegetables that my mom asked him to get. I hope he did not notice me...)
The reason I created this blog was because I wanted to keep in touch with my family in
I would like to update my blog as often as I can. (My English is not super great yet, so please bear with my "Akari-tive" English :)
Well, please support my new journey!
Thank you!
[Photo: This is a view from inside of Iao Valley to Kahului, the center of Maui.]
4 comments:
Great job Akari!! Thank you for doing this- I can't wait to read more in the future. It's a good way to keep on what you're doing- I guess that's how we have to do it now in this day and age! Well Matt and I (Carlen) say konichiwa!
xoxox
Dear Akari,
I love your Akariesque english. I am excited for your blog! Everyone can learn so much from you.
Aloha,
Sean
My Dearest Akari,
It's so nice to know that you're doing well! Seeing you working so hard to make your dream come true always gives me a lot of energy. I'm so happy to have such a wonderful friend like you, Akari!
Lots of Love,
Maki
Hi Akari. If you feel like a little kid going to the store for mom for the first time, so do I. This is actually the first blog that I've ever looked at. I'll check back to see what you are up to from time to time.
Thank you for your great performance at our Martin Luther King Dinner Dance on Friday night. Everyone was so impressed and we are so inspired by one who truly gives 100% and then some more!
Aloha,
Chuck
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