日本にいる外国人、外国好きな日本人 けっこう前から気づいたんだけど、日本に住んでいる外国人の中、自国で上手くいかない人が多いよう。気のせいかな。もしそうだったら、僕も同じかも。だから、人のどうのこうのじゃなくて、ただの分析というか (つぶやきと言っても構わない)。で、同じく、外国好きな日本人の中もちょっとあれっていう方が多くいらっしゃる。 もちろん、人はそれぞれ違うし、色んな事情を抱えてるわけだよね。でも、それと同時に世の中同じパターンで起こる出来事も多いような気がする。

2017, the year of changes Past year-end party (so called bonenkai) was held at Chinzanso hotel in Tokyo, same as a year ago. I can't say for sure yet but I feel like, probably, it was my last year-end party in this company. It's time to go forward, to take another important step. This year is going to be really full of changes and challenges. As always, I'm looking forward to them. And from this year I start studying at university in Moscow, the Faculty of Economics and Management. I just want to pick up some new knowledge and skills. Anyway, I wish a super-duper-pooper extra happy New Year to all of you, ladies and gentlemen! Cheers!

英語犬とお爺さん 最近、面白い出来事があって、本当に一生忘れられない。公園のベンチに座ってるところ、近くにいた犬の散歩をしているお爺さんを気づいたんだけど、まあ、何も珍しいことじゃないね。珍しいのはそのあとで始まった。お爺さんは犬と英語で喋り出したよ！話はだいたい下記の通りだった。 This way. Good boy. No. Let's go home. で、ずっと同じフレーズを繰り返して、残念ながら犬は一言も言わなかった。 「それってどういうこと？」僕は自分の耳を疑った。最初、そのオジイさんはボケているんじゃないかなと思ったけど、多分、そうではなかった。もしかして英語しか通じない犬だったかもしれないね。日本人って優しいねー。英語しか分からない犬と英語で話してくれるってすごいよね。ロシアからの犬だったらば、犬のためにロシア語を勉強してくれる人もいるのかなー。いや、恐らくいないだろう (笑)。

I'm going home I've decided to take a vacation next month. I'm going to Belarus to see my mother, brother and meet with friends. My father died two years ago while I was staying here in Japan. That time I had no opportunity to even go to his funeral. But this is the life, sometimes such things happen. So, I'm going to the country of Belarus. Belarus is a country in the central part of Europe. Although probably we are used to think that it's an East Europe country, geographically it is located in a centre of Europe, if we are considering Europe as a continent but not just as a bunch of countries composing the EU. But right, now it doesn't matter which part of Europe it is, just I'm going to Belarus and that's it. A lot of people actually don't even know about Belarus at all and I don't find it strange. Despite the fact that Belarus is a former Soviet Union republic and it's kind of poor country, I would say that it is quite peaceful place, as well as clean and beautiful. After the Chernobyl disaster some places in the southern Belarus are still struggling with relatively high levels of radiation there. Well, unfortunately nowadays Japan has the same problem. Be that as it may, I'm really happy to go to Belarus, especially in the middle of the summer, the harder season for me to spent in Japan. Summer time in Japan is incredibly hot and humid. Whatever the case, just one month later I'll leave Japan for a while, I'll meet with my mother, brother and the closest friends, I'll say them "hey, it's been a while isn't it!". And when I'm thinking about all of this, imagining in my head, I feel so happy. I wish I could describe my feelings in English properly but I'm afraid I even can't do it well in my mother language. Just one month later I'll go. I'm looking forward to...

On my way home My Friday working day finally came to an end. As always I rode the train and went to my home which is about one hour from Tokyo by train. Well, I can't say "my home" because it's actually not my home but anyway... the place where I currently live, in short "my home", it doesn't matter whether I am owner of this property or not. There are so many people in the train, some of them look tired, some not, a lot of them are just staring to their smartphones. And I feel so alone at this moment. But at the same time I feel kind of happy because it's end of Friday, I've got two days off, a good opportunity to relax and to recharge my exhausted body.