先日Noriからメールが来た。「１年前、ちょうどこの頃ラグビー一緒に行きましたねー。懐かしい。」と。ああ、そうだなあ、と振り返る。
ニュージランドでスポーツと言えば、ラグビー。シーズン中はBarなど至るところでビールやワインを片手にラグビー観戦を楽しむ人を多く見かける。一般家庭のテレビでもラグビー放送をつけているところは少なくない。私がホームステイしていた家庭ではまるきり関心がなかったが。
ニュージーランドにいる間に、一度は生のラグビーを、ということで、７月上旬の金曜日、当時通っていた語学学校のレクにNoriと共に参加して、スタジアムへ足を運んだ。ちょうど一年前の今日である。
初めて行く大きなスタジアム、プロのラグビー観戦、学校前に集合したときからやや興奮気味だった。試合はニュージーランド・オールブラックス対フィジー。前半はオールブラックスのゴール側にいたので、何度もトライする場面が見え、大興奮！スタジアムを一周する観客ウエーブに嬉々として一緒にうねった。飛び交う風船。大歓声。テレビで見るのとは全然違うこの臨場感。後半はゴールが向側にチェンジしたので全く私たちサイドに選手が来ず、レクに参加した人同士で話に花を咲かせたりした。それもそのはず、結果は、９１対０でオールブラックスの圧勝！センターラインからちっともこちら側に来ないわけである。
試合が終わると大勢の観客をすり抜けながら、またバスで学校まで戻り、ホームステイ先に帰った。結局１年の滞在の中で、観戦したのはこの一度きりであった。
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A few weeks ago, my friend Nori gave me a mail.She said ' We went to watch a Rugby game a year before'.
The most famous sport in NZ is Rugby.There are many people who watch the game in bar or somewhere with alcohol when it starts and most of family likes watching it on TV.But the family that I stayed was not interested in it.
We had thought that we wanted to watch a live game while in NZ and then joined a school event of going to stadium for watching the rugby game.It was a year ago today.
We went to North Harbour Stadium.We had been much excited before we left school and were impressed by such a big stadium and the game under our noses.It was NZ vs FIJI and one-sided game(91 vs 0 !!!),so we got chance to see many TRY in the first half.but..in the second half they rarely came over the center line.We really enjoyed it,anyway.People who was in that stadium made big and long wave.A live is much more different than on TV.After all, it was the first and last time I watched the live game in NZ.
ニュージランドでスポーツと言えば、ラグビー。シーズン中はBarなど至るところでビールやワインを片手にラグビー観戦を楽しむ人を多く見かける。一般家庭のテレビでもラグビー放送をつけているところは少なくない。私がホームステイしていた家庭ではまるきり関心がなかったが。
ニュージーランドにいる間に、一度は生のラグビーを、ということで、７月上旬の金曜日、当時通っていた語学学校のレクにNoriと共に参加して、スタジアムへ足を運んだ。ちょうど一年前の今日である。
初めて行く大きなスタジアム、プロのラグビー観戦、学校前に集合したときからやや興奮気味だった。試合はニュージーランド・オールブラックス対フィジー。前半はオールブラックスのゴール側にいたので、何度もトライする場面が見え、大興奮！スタジアムを一周する観客ウエーブに嬉々として一緒にうねった。飛び交う風船。大歓声。テレビで見るのとは全然違うこの臨場感。後半はゴールが向側にチェンジしたので全く私たちサイドに選手が来ず、レクに参加した人同士で話に花を咲かせたりした。それもそのはず、結果は、９１対０でオールブラックスの圧勝！センターラインからちっともこちら側に来ないわけである。
試合が終わると大勢の観客をすり抜けながら、またバスで学校まで戻り、ホームステイ先に帰った。結局１年の滞在の中で、観戦したのはこの一度きりであった。
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A few weeks ago, my friend Nori gave me a mail.She said ' We went to watch a Rugby game a year before'.
The most famous sport in NZ is Rugby.There are many people who watch the game in bar or somewhere with alcohol when it starts and most of family likes watching it on TV.But the family that I stayed was not interested in it.
We had thought that we wanted to watch a live game while in NZ and then joined a school event of going to stadium for watching the rugby game.It was a year ago today.
We went to North Harbour Stadium.We had been much excited before we left school and were impressed by such a big stadium and the game under our noses.It was NZ vs FIJI and one-sided game(91 vs 0 !!!),so we got chance to see many TRY in the first half.but..in the second half they rarely came over the center line.We really enjoyed it,anyway.People who was in that stadium made big and long wave.A live is much more different than on TV.After all, it was the first and last time I watched the live game in NZ.
We went to City toady to go to an office for procedure of IRD and then were going to eat Seafood Chowder at SeaMart.Unfortunately, the shop has moved to FishMarket and it seemed nowhere,actually it has totally closed.We missed Chowder and ate sushi instead of it. I was able to see only logo of SeaMart on some stuff in FishMarket,...
what??! ...I said to her what he called me yesterday and he said today is ok.She asked what's wrong with my(his) car ,so I needed to answer about broken window and that number ,colour ..after that,she said "OK, I will call you,,,could be tomorrow". I accepted it although I was angry and hang it up.Most of advertisements that I saw from yellow page says "Emergency help!!" ,actually they were too slow.I was quite uncomfortable.After 30 minutes,I wanted to ask another shop and I remembered the name card which one of them gave me yesterday and called.He was the nicest in all shops that I contacted yesterday and he could come to replace it today !! So, I was willing to ask him and cancelled that shop.The price was not much different.Anyway , his car was fixed and the staff was so so so so nice to me.I was happy through him.Thank you.....Do I require too much of customer service? but ...I don't think they can help in an emergency.Actually,I got used to it....
).For that reason, we had to repair today but he works from Monday to Friday and I have nothing to do because I've already quit my job.And then, I called some glass shops but it was too hard to explain the condition or answer their question by phone.To begin with my English was not excellent;secondly this is the first time to ask about car repairing here.That's why I didn't understand what they asked me.(any names of parts ,any numbers and so on)So,I wrote their address down and decided to go there directly.I went the nearest one in my memo the first and then I said to a receptionist.She said "we don't but I let you know one shop" and gave me another address.And then, I went the shop next but the staff said "No, we don't but I will give you the number and you call him ,then he will check and tell you the price."He gave me a name card.I didn't call him and drove 2 more shops.I just wanted to know about price and compare it.But both of them said to me " I will call you back later soon."even I asked a rough price.I killed time over 1 hour(I was sleeping in the car).When I woke up I checked my mobile and found they hadn't called me,so I called each of them.Both of them seemed to hear from me the first they said again."I will call you back later soon."It passed another 1 hour and I almost gave up and went back to home.On the way to home,one of them called me and he said the price and tomorrow should be fine,after I hang it up, I kept waiting another calling ,although price was not bad.But I didn't need to wait it
because he never called me...what's it customer service?
