Farewell party

On 27 Mar. there was a farewell party of my office.
We must say good bye to teachers and clerks who will transfer and who will retire, and adjunct part-time teachers. Now is the time of departure.

My third eldest son and I have seen the teacher who taught my son when he was sixth grade in the elementary school. On 29 Mar. the three boys and a girl of the five classmates at that time had seen their teacher again. Also did four of their mothers. One of the mothers has been getting on a mobile to the teacher once in a while. She asked him to meet us because our children had graduated from junior high school. The students will go different high schools. It’s a time for children to get together. Otherwise they are hardly to meet before a coming-of-Age ceremony. We met at Mizube no Sato in Oyama town. The boys had lunch together with glee.
There were five students in the class at the sixth grade in the elementary school. Then a girl student went to a junior high school in Fukuoka Prefecture. The others went to the junior high school in their home town by school bus. Time flies.

On 30 Mar. also there was a farewell party of my children's junior high school. Ms. Akiyoshi who taught my son in his third grade will transfer. Mr. Mori who was in charge of run the club my son belonged to will transfer. The vice principal of junior high school will advance to the principal of another junior high school. The part-time teacher who taught my daughter English will work at the junior high school which she graduated next school year. And the school nurse is to study at an university for one year. She said she wanted to study psychology of adolescence to understand students at puberty. I wish to see her again and ask anything about pubertal children. Once I was, but I can’t remind well how I felt at puberty.

On 31 Mar. I was surprised when I read an article which told that Mr, Yoichi Takahashi who is an economist had been prosecuted on suspicion of stealing. He had stole a BVLGARI wristwatch. He was a person who pointed out the horded money in Kasumigasseki. He was under Ben Bernanke’s tutelage while studying at Princeton University. It’s unbelievable and mysterious. I wonder it has something to do with Democratic Party of Japan’s donation scandal?

3月27日　職場の送別会でした。転退職する教職員の方々、非常勤講師の方々にさよならを言わなくてはなりません。別れの時期です。

　3番目の倅と私は彼が小学6年生のときの先生に会いました。3月29日当時の5人の生徒のうち3人の男の子と1人の女の子とその母親たち4人で先生に再会しました。1人のお母さんがたまに先生に携帯のメールで連絡を取っていたのです。彼女が、子ども達も中学を卒業したので会いたいですとお願いしました。子ども達は全員別々の高校に行きます。今会わないと成人式まで会えないでしょうと。私たちは大山町の水辺の里で会いました。子ども達は一緒にごはんを食べてはしゃいでいました。6年生のときは生徒5人でしたが、1人の女の子が福岡県の中学校に行き、残りが地元の中学校にスクールバスで通いました。時のたつのは早いです。

　3月30日、子どもの中学校の送別会もありました。倅が3年のときの担任のアキヨシ先生は転勤します。倅が入っていた部活のモリ先生も転勤します。教頭は別な中学校の校長になります。娘が英語を教わった講師の先生は来年度自分の母校で教える予定です。保健室の先生は1年間大学で思春期心理学を勉強する予定です。思春期の生徒たちを理解するために青年期心理学を学びたいそうです。
先生とまたお会いして思春期の子どもたちについて聞きたいです。かつては自分もそうだったのに思春期ってどんな風に感じていたかよく思い出せません。

　31日、経済学者の高橋洋一氏が盗みの容疑で訴追されたという記事を見て驚きました。ブルガリの腕時計を盗んだとのこと。彼は霞ヶ関の埋蔵金を指摘した人です。プリンストン大学でベン・バーナンキの薫陶を受けたとか。信じられませんし、不可解です。民主党の献金スキャンダルと何か関係があるのでしょうか？

31 Mar. 2009