Earthquake in Christchurch

I guess you guys has already known the horrible earthquake happened in Christ church in Newzealand.　
As a matter of course, here, in Newszealand, It is repoted daily on how badly it was. I think the city had a lot of serious damages more than we imagine.

Anyway, I'm fine. we didn't get involved in it fortunately because the natural disaster happened in South island, but I live in north.
However, as you know, Newzealand is not that large county, so we can't assume that it never happens in North island. Everything can happen anywhere because we never predict about any natural disaster. I need to stay alert especially now.
And you know how many Japanese people got involved in the earthquake? According to the news on TV here, at least more than 20 Japanese students are still missing and some students are buried alive under the building. They has been provided a critical treatment to survive and The search parties on the sopt has redoubled their efforts to find the missing people.
I hope everything is going the right way and the goverment will rescue as many people as possible within next few days.

Anyway, I'm sorry to worry about you. I'm alright.







みなさんも知ってると思いますが、ＮＺで数日前大きな地震がありました。

　連日、たくさんの知人・友人から安否の連絡をもらい、心配をおかけしているので先に話しますが、自分には被害は全くありません。地震の起こった地域とは離れているので、幸いにもなんの不自由もなかったです。
　ただ、ＮＺ自体は日本の国土より狭いため、予断は許されないかもしれません。

　地震が起こったのはクライストチャーチというＮＺ最大規模の観光地であり、在日邦人もたくさんいます。
　邦人学生が多数巻き込まれたほか、現地は２か月ほど前にも同規模の地震が同じ場所で起こっているため、被害は深刻のようで連日テレビでも騒がれています。

　日本も復旧活動の援助を開始したという報道もありましたし、いち早く復興作業が進み、被害者が最小限に食い止められるよう願うばかりです。

　とにかく、自分は無事です。

　ご心配おかけしました。

Bungy Jump

Hi, all!!

Have you ever done a bungy jump before??

I had never done it until yesterday.
We went around some local cities for holiday because my mate from Japan has come to see me now. Doing Bungy Jump was the main event to do for us because there is no chance to do bungy in Japan and my mate came all the way here from Japan, so we decided to do it.
To be honest, I have no fear in doing it even when I got there because I already did a skydiving from 5000ft above the ground, so I was expecting that nothing could beat the thrill of skydiving, and also to rehearse for bungy, I dived off the highboard placed 15m above a swimming pool the day before.

That's why, I thought it would be so easier to take off sky than everybody else.
However... I was really scare when I stood on the point, and one of the instructor told me just before jump I had to dive off straight after he counted to 3, and he started counting... I couldn't help but being encourage myself and went to hell.
At that time, I felt like my heart is going to jump out of my chest and going to be dead... I recognized how would-be suicides feel like before going.

Anyway, that was super-good experience for me and I felt like something in my mind was changed.

You should try if gea a chance to do it!!







みなさん、バンジージャンプしたことありますか？？

　やってきましたよ、高さ８０ｍから垂直落下してきました。これでスカイダイビングにバンジーを制覇し、あとはスキューバダイビングをどこかで経験せねば！！
　とりあえず、バンジーは飛ぶ直前までは全然平気やったけど、しっかり飛び込む為の装備をつけられて、飛ぶ直前にちゃんと装備されてるかインストラクターの方に再チェックされたときから、「あ、おれこの絶壁から飛び込むんや」と認識。

　足結構ふるえて、飛び込む先端になったときは完全に腰抜けてました。笑

　場所は、両端１００ｍくらいの絶壁で下が川になってるところに橋がかけられてて、そこからダイブ！！「なんちゅうとこや！」と思いましたね。
　値段は１７９ドルやったんで、日本円なら１万くらいかな、今なら。安いよね。


　おれは前にスカイダイビングしてたし、前日くらいに１５ｍのプールの飛び込み台で予行演習してたから、先端に立って泣き叫んでってことなく、あっさり飛べたけど、日本から来てた友達はぎゃーぎゃーやる直前まで騒いでました。笑


　しかしええ経験なった。おもろいです、まじ！！

　みなさんも機会があれば是非！！

My friend landed!!

昨日、日本から友人が上陸しました！！

　こんな遠い町に飛行機を乗り継いでやってきてくれました。嬉しい限りです。

　サッカーで知り合った友達なんで、昨日自分のチームの練習に監督に特別に許可をもらい体験で参加させてやりました。笑
　当日はめちゃめちゃ緊張してましたが、練習に入ると必死にやってましたね。笑

　時々日本語を発しながらも、いい経験ができたみたいでよかったです。

　１週間ほどの滞在ですが、週末には小旅行でバンジージャンプしてきます。友達はちょっとへタレなんで、ある意味楽しみではありますが、自分も足がすくみそう。笑
　
　
　また彼が帰国したら、色々綴りたいと思います！！





One of my soccer friends landed Palmerston North from Japan yesterday. I was really happy to see him again.
As you know, I've been a rural town of New zealand that takes at least a whole day to come by airplane.

We got to know each other through a social team we played before and we have been keeping touch with constantly since then.

And for his experience, I took him the training of our club yesterday night. He also play soccer for a local club in Koube, but it's just for fun.
He was really freaked out before the training session because he doesn't normally play in serious situation, he can't speak English well and also he had never played with oversea players!!
Anyway, I took permission from coach in particular for him only this time and I let him joined it.

All things aside, he seemed to enjoy himself on training and he was chasing a ball desperately like a kid.
I think it was good experience for him.

Dorm-breaking!!

Hi, there!!

Yesterday, I finally escaped from an bloody inhospitable room which I had been staying since I came here.
Actually I'd had my own room the manager of the hostel provided me before, but I was asked by her to get out of the room because it would be busy for the hostel in February. She is a boss, so I was moved back to a dorm room and sleepless night was started.

In dorm room, of course there is no private and also I had to be with other mates every single day in the same room. Some people have teeth grinding while sleep and others snore loudly all night long which frustrates me.

This was like a nightmare for me.

But I would be able to get a good sleep from tonight. I'm really relieved.

And I had another nightmate last week that I wasn't picked up for the game in Dunedin. The game agaist Otago should have been a good experience for me because we were suppose to travel there on the day before game and had a night on spot because the park is located very far down the coast.
Unfortunately I couldn't commit the game.

In fact, I know the reason. I know what to do for the next game.
.







どうも！！

　昨日引越し完了！！ついにドミトリー生活から開放されました。ふぅ。。

　いやぁ、この２週間はほんまに辛かった。それまでホステルでオーナーに一人部屋もらってたんやけど、これから忙しくなるってんで、ドミトリーに移され。。
　プライベートは全くないし、毎日違うやつと同じ部屋で寝る生活。イビキや歯軋りなど、眠れない日が続いた。パソコンも使えず、家ですることはなにもない。

　ニュージーランド人の友人がそこでできたので、彼とずっと一緒にいましたね。今度彼とシカを狩りにハンティングに行くんで、その様子もまた書きます。

　サッカーの方も初のメンバー外。今回は泊まりでの試合遠征だったので個人的にも楽しみにしていただけにショックだった。主力が抜け、自分の中で「普通にやってれば大丈夫」っていう変な余裕もあったといわざるをえないし、練習前の調整が全くできず、体は重いし、練習でもミスが多すぎ。
　メンバー発表の時に自分の名前がなかったので、その時に思い知りました。「本当にまだ未熟、甘すぎた」と。

　だからみなが遠征にいってる間、おもっきりジムで走ったし、これをなんとかプラスに変えないと意味がない。すべての過ちを「後悔」ではなく「反省」して、次へ。

　
　今週はホームでオークランドシティＦＣ戦。トライアウトの気持ちを思い出して、今週しっかり調整します！！

Captain's act

　What’s a normal team captain like??
I think a captain of a team is like has a sense of responsibility at any time and a person who can take the lead in the team, and captains must be a reliable person.
At least, all captains I’ve met and played with in my career were like that.

As the matter of course, there is a captain in my team, who is called ADAM. When I met him in the first training, I recognized he must be a captain because he looked like a very good player, gave some advices to the other players all the time and he was the only one player who spoke to me during the training like - ‘What’s your name?’ ’Where did you come from’ - something like that.

And then, I was invited his Christmas party on 25th of last December, and then I was his date couple times after that.
He takes good care of any other players off the pitch, but the thing is, he has the other personality when he is on the pitch. It’s horrible for us because his fine personality absolutely disappears and shows his brutality, especially when his team is being inferior to the other, at first he blame on his teammates who made every mistakes and he becomes out of control that means he tries to take all players on from the penalty box of our side in spite of he is a defender. At worse, he argues with a referee and our coach during a half time that the team is being malfunction. At last, he abandons the game.

I think a captain should prompt the team to head for the right way in any situations. It’s the captain’s act, isn’t it??
Lately, he is getting looser on his behavior. I had been patience for long about it, but I can't stand any more.

The game of this weekend, he has to be away from the game because of suspension from accumulated yellow cards.
This is gonna be a chance for us to show him that you're not a special one if we win the game. That's why we must beat!!







キャプテンってどういう人？？

　う～ん、またまた愚痴ってしまうのが嫌ですが、うちのチームのキャプテンのことです。彼の名前はＡＤＡＭ。
　キャプテンで、ずっと地元クラブでやってるこのチームでは中心選手。年齢も３０歳で最年長。トップリーグの試合もすでに１００試合以上出場してる選手。

　私生活では面倒見もいいし、話しやすいし、何かと気に懸けてくれたりするんで、ピッチ外ではゆうことないんですが、ピッチの中に入ると豹変し、すごいエゴイストになる。例えば誰かがミスをすると、明らかに不満爆発なリアクションを取るし、チームがうまくいってないと、試合を途中で投げ出したり、声を全く出さず、ＤＦなのに危険なエリアでドリブルで抜こうとしたりと言い出したらキリがない。


　チームのほぼ全員が彼とサッカーがやりにくい、かみ合わないと思っているはず。

　現に、今シーズン唯一勝った試合に、彼は累積で試合に出ていなかった。それ以外はスタメンで出て全敗。

　自分もそこまで思わないようにしてきたんですが、最近の暴れっぷりは目に余るものがあって、彼と同じチームになったときの練習なんか最悪。やってて全然楽しくないし、自分の為にもチームの為にもならない。

　確かに彼はうまいし、いい選手なのは認めるし、人間的にも素晴らしいと思う。

　ただ、いかんせんサッカーをしている時の彼は、キャプテンという自分の役割を履き違えているように思えてしまう。

　う～ん、これも海外の洗礼なんでしょうか。。。