I know it’s weird to start off my first translation of Takki’s Tokyo Walker essays with Vol. 17. Maybe I’ll slowly go back and translate the rest when I have time. But I cheated, coz I referred to the chinese translation when I overcame problems :P
Don’t you think that this is fresh? Vol. 17 (scan)
(Tokyo Walker 6/20~7/3)
“How are the schools like today?”
From this volume onwards, I’m thinking of using “School” as a theme for discussion. To suddenly mention “School”, everyone must be quite shocked, but recently if you’ve seen the news programs, do you find that there are more cases of youth crime? Youth younger than me are saying depressing things like “I have no dreams for the future”. The topic of “Young boys and young girls in our present society have very difficult lives”… Even after many years pass, I’ll still feel vague about it. Thus, just what kind of situation is the youth education in schools today, I am quite deeply in doubt… and I hope there will be a solution.
Although it happened many years ago, when I look back on my school days, the memories I have are making the teachers very angry (laughs). The reason might be having a strong feeling to oppose the teacher, when they have differing viewpoints, are biased, or they do not want to listen to what students are trying to say. Of course, not every teacher is like this, I have also met good teachers. By “good teacher”, I’ve since realised that there are a few.
Recently, who I feel is a “good teacher”, is none other than “Yankee Sensei” Yoshiie Hiroyuki (link). After I watched his documentary program, I was very touched. Usually I’m not the kind who cries easily, but I cried a lot. I even bought the DVD (laughs). It is really amazing to be able to capture your students’ hearts.
The next volume I will have a face to face talk with Yoshiie Sensei. Although I’m looking forward to it, I’m starting to feel the pressure… I’m really very nervous~ (laughs).
This week’s freshness:
The Takki who talks enthusiastically about “Yankee Sensei”, and who’s about to talk to him in person. At first it was “I want to have a chat with him’, then as the day approaches, Takki flinches instead “It’ll be great if I can just have one look at him…” (laughs) He shows a glimpse of being a fan. That is very fresh!
Ijou desu~~XD
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Hi Mich,
How are you? plz take care ne.
Wow……….I’m first comment.
Hahaha……..
MICH,
“YANKEE SENSEI” IS THE REAL TEACHER, RIGHT?
TAKKI WATCH THIS KIND OF TV PROGRAME, MAY BE HE ALWAYS THINK ABOUT TEENAGE LIFE AND MISS IT.
i’m fine thanks~ ah, ya, takki really interviewed the teacher in the following issue (vol. 18)~ ^^
thanks mich! I know how it’s sometimes not easy to do translations, as I’m trying to do some now on my site too~
ooh, that’s good that you found a chinese translation! Was it published in a chinese magazine or something?
and I’m glad that Takki is a guy who is conscious and concerned about the society! good for him! =)
skammie~ i found it from forums ne~ it’s taihen even if it’s doubly translated, and not exactly accurate. ne, i keep forgetting to ask u about taiyou wa shizumanai!! haha.. dou? email me? hehe…
aawww…that’s so cool that Takki’s reminiscing a bit on his ‘school days’. ^_^ I, too, sometimes look back on my memories of my hs days but, not very fond of some aspects of it. lol Maybe becuz by the time I hit my Senior year, my bf (back then) left me for another girl…and ALL b4 my Senior Prom too of all things. -_- Dame dame~
And that’s so touching too that he actually cried while watching the documentary on Yankee ‘sensei’. ^_^ He’s not one to cry much, huh. Hmmm…*thinks now* Too bad cuz I’m more the emotional type. lol :P
Thanks so much 4 translating this article though. Now I’ll know what he talked about. =D