2017.05.22
シリロのウーフイング2
佐藤賢太郎

私はシリロとの英会話が成り立たないことしばしばですが、笑いもあります。彼はよく気が付き、よく働き好感をもつようになりました。真面目な態度なので、彼をお昼に一番景色のいいところに連れて行き食事をした。

食べながらワインを飲み、緑に映える遠くの飯豊山の白い雪景色はとても綺麗であり、外国人とそれを見られることはとても幸せです。 

私がおかずを箸で挟んだ時、すべって下に落としてしまいました。しかし下にあった葉っぱ受けてくれました。それを見て彼は笑ってしまった。おかずが地面に落ちなく、葉が皿の役目をしていたのが面白かった。私はこれが、過疎に暮らしながらも十分豊かな生き方をしている一つと思います。世界の国々の方と英語はあまり話せずとも、退屈せず環境を整え共にする毎日です。今日は1週間に一度の休み、お互いに休み、彼が休みの日にちを使って今日は会津若松の城を見学してきたと言って帰ってきた。

互いに息抜き、気楽にしていても気を使っている。言葉が通じないこともあり、1週間がちょうどよい滞在かも知れないと家内と話した。

不思議にも私は今、全く知らない外国人と共にコスモ夢舞台理想を作っている。

 


Cirilo Castaneda Jr3

  I’ve only been living with Kentaro for a few days, but he has helped me realized what I would like to accomplish in life in such few days, Living in both America and Mexico I can say that Japan is nothing like those countries. In America and Mexico I grew up learning that the government is only after money that they can get out its people, most of the time they are getting money from the poor just because they aren’t satisfied with what they have. In the town where Kentaro lives there is no competition on who has the best car or who was the biggest house, the town helps each other out with farming and building part of the town. It’s such a beautiful thing to see this because these people don’t expect anything but help when it’s needed. Being able to see a community thrive the way it does without any money helps me understand that it’s not about how much you have but about how good of a person you are. I’ve always wanted to live as minimal as possible and living with Kentaro has made want to do it more than ever. My plans for when I get home is to try to start a small garden in my mother’s backyard and hopefully be able to build my own home with a lot of environmental friendly materials and try my best to educate people on living a good and happy life. Hopefully I can somehow make a change in the world.

 
 
                             Cirilo Castaneda Jr4

 To some it may seem odd the way Kentaro is living, but to other it makes senseTo be able to hear Kentaro and his wife say that they have no money, but they are very happy is a beautiful thingHe has little money, but his life is wonderful. He is a busy man and could have easily chosen the easy life and got a job in the city working from day to day making money for someone else, but he decide to dedicate himself to working and teaching junior high school students on how to live with nature, and the amazing part of that is that he doesn’t work for someone else he works for himself. Every morning we wake up and go do some kind of work then come back for lunch and after that work for another while. I usually see him constantly trying to figure out what needs to be done around the town whether it’s planting rice or trying to clear the forest to help keep the monkeys away. While I’ve been staying with him I’ve come to realize how material thing are not important, it’s about doing what you love regardless of what the outcome is also helping one another to try to build a better place to live. I would really love to go back home and be able to share the experience that I have learned while living with Kentaro and hopefully be able to do the something similar back home. It’s such a beautiful thing to be able to see the love that Kentaro has for his work and his wife. In America you would never see a man like him, because everyone is always worried about money and constantly trying to beat their neighbor instead of working together for a better future for their kids. One of the main things that I have learned from him is to just be happy and try to live as humble as possible. I knew that I was going to learn something new while here in Japan, but I never expected to learn so much from a man who lives the way Kentaro lives.