春学期が終え、学生も皆無事に帰国して、フォートライトのキャンパスは静寂そのものです。朝晩はまだまだ涼しいのですが、午後にはすっかり夏の気候となっています。
春学期の修了式の様子は、下に記したサイトをご覧いただければ、ご理解いただけると思います。
私は今学期はなかなかブログに投稿する余裕が無かったのですが、最後に、英文のままではありますが、修了式での私の挨拶をご紹介させていただきます。最後にある、"Your dream is our dream"という言葉は、私たちフォートライトの教職員の学生に対する想いを表現したものです。
Awards Ceremony Speech, Spring 2009
May 17, 2009
Dear Distinguished Guests and Mukogawa Friends,
It is my honor and privilege to welcome all of you to the 2009 spring graduation. Two hundred and seventy three (273) students are graduating this term. This number is the biggest we began in 1990, and we have now had over 8 thousand 5 hundred students complete this program. I am certain that the 19 years of this program has made a great contribution to Spokane Community and has helped develop many successful careers of both faculty in the United States and students in Japan.
My sincere thanks to Mr. Okawara, Chancellor of Mukogawa Gakuin and the President of MFWI, and to Prof. Naosuke Itoigawa, the President of Mukogawa Women’s University, MFWI Board Member Ms. Patricia Williams and Mr. Robert Beschel, and to many other officials and colleagues both in Nishinomiya and in Spokane for their strong guidance and support for us here in Spokane.
Also I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest appreciation to the Faculty, Staff, Advisors, RAs, Host Families, and the People of Spokane for their patient and heart-felt instruction and friendship. Your great cooperation has made the students finish their studies successfully and with so many wonderful memories. Especially today, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you, our guests, who are attending this awards ceremony. Because in the middle of swine flu MFWI did not attend Bloomsday, that is most important event in Spokane, but you attend this award ceremony, that is most important at MFWI. Though the spread of swine flu does not yet finish.
Thank you very much.
Through this spring term, I learned much the cultural difference between the United State and Japan. The difference of the attitude to illness, especially this appeared at the event of Bloomsday. The difference of the usage or interpretation of words or language; American people are very logical, or in other word, consistent, but Japanese people are very situational, or in other word, holistic.
Here in Fort Wright I learned positive thinking of American people. Even if we are in big difficulties, we must convert them positive.
Now students…congratulations! What have you learned here in Spokane? What is the most impressive word or expression whose you have studied?
You have studied hard and have completed your MFWI studies successfully.
You have made us all very proud. You are very positive for everything. That makes us more very pleasant to teach you. To be more motivated is to be more positive to study, and that makes you more successful. To speak English more makes you more self confident, and to become more self confident makes your English better. If your English becomes better, then you can express yourselves more confidently and you can find your possibility and your dream comes true.
Good luck for your future dream.
May 17, 2009
Dear Distinguished Guests and Mukogawa Friends,
It is my honor and privilege to welcome all of you to the 2009 spring graduation. Two hundred and seventy three (273) students are graduating this term. This number is the biggest we began in 1990, and we have now had over 8 thousand 5 hundred students complete this program. I am certain that the 19 years of this program has made a great contribution to Spokane Community and has helped develop many successful careers of both faculty in the United States and students in Japan.
My sincere thanks to Mr. Okawara, Chancellor of Mukogawa Gakuin and the President of MFWI, and to Prof. Naosuke Itoigawa, the President of Mukogawa Women’s University, MFWI Board Member Ms. Patricia Williams and Mr. Robert Beschel, and to many other officials and colleagues both in Nishinomiya and in Spokane for their strong guidance and support for us here in Spokane.
Also I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest appreciation to the Faculty, Staff, Advisors, RAs, Host Families, and the People of Spokane for their patient and heart-felt instruction and friendship. Your great cooperation has made the students finish their studies successfully and with so many wonderful memories. Especially today, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you, our guests, who are attending this awards ceremony. Because in the middle of swine flu MFWI did not attend Bloomsday, that is most important event in Spokane, but you attend this award ceremony, that is most important at MFWI. Though the spread of swine flu does not yet finish.
Thank you very much.
Through this spring term, I learned much the cultural difference between the United State and Japan. The difference of the attitude to illness, especially this appeared at the event of Bloomsday. The difference of the usage or interpretation of words or language; American people are very logical, or in other word, consistent, but Japanese people are very situational, or in other word, holistic.
Here in Fort Wright I learned positive thinking of American people. Even if we are in big difficulties, we must convert them positive.
Now students…congratulations! What have you learned here in Spokane? What is the most impressive word or expression whose you have studied?
You have studied hard and have completed your MFWI studies successfully.
You have made us all very proud. You are very positive for everything. That makes us more very pleasant to teach you. To be more motivated is to be more positive to study, and that makes you more successful. To speak English more makes you more self confident, and to become more self confident makes your English better. If your English becomes better, then you can express yourselves more confidently and you can find your possibility and your dream comes true.
Good luck for your future dream.
And always remember, your dream is our dream.
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