夏休み最後の日｜Last Day of Summer Vacation｜2021/08/31

子供たちは今日で夏休みも終了。とうとう終わってしまうと日曜日のサザエさんのエンディングを聞く時の心境に違いない。子供の頃の夏休みで一番印象深かったのは小学６年生の時だ。アメリカシアトルに駐在する父の元に家族で夏を過ごした。そこで父の友人たちのインパクトが強かった。トレーラーハウスでバッファローと住む人、自分で飛行機を組み立てて操縦する人、家に大きなプールがある人、ゴルフ場に住む人…。いろいろな人々が自身の価値観で生きている姿に小学生ながらスゴイと思った。あれから45年。小学生にそれだけのインパクトをもたらせることができるだろうか。（絵と文：サカキテツ朗）
The children have finished their summer vacation today. When it's finally over, it must be the feeling when listening to Sazae-san's ending on Sunday. The most memorable part of my childhood summer vacation was when I was in sixth grade. I spent the summer with my family with my father in Seattle, USA. There, the impact of his friends was strong. People who lived with Buffalo in a mobile home, people who assembled and operated an airplane by himself, people who had a large pool in his house, people who lived in a golf course ... I thought it was amazing to see various people living with their own values, even though I was an elementary school student. It's been 45 years since then. Can I have such an impact on elementary school students? -Text and illustration by Ted Sakaki
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