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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Good morning.
Still we are...
10... 10.30?
Yeah... 10... 14...
So, there's one topic that I want to talk about with you.
I actually met with my friend.
I mean, friend, but I haven't been seeing him for like...
for like 15 years.
15 years?
Okay.
Very long.
Yeah. He was an elementary school friend.
And after we graduated from that elementary school, we haven't been like me.
And we actually... So, I met him yesterday.
Yeah.
And we did time capsule thing.
Oh yeah?
When we were... Like when we graduated from this elementary school.
Yeah, that's nice.
When we were like 10...
No, no, no. When we graduated.
We were... When we were 6... I mean, 6th grade.
Yeah.
We did like time capsule thing.
Yeah.
We... We... We bury our things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Like your favorite things.
Favorite things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or like... Like anything, you know.
And when we turned 20, 20 years old, we went there and...
Opened up our time capsule.
Oh yeah.
And we... We've got the things.
Okay.
That's what we did when we went Seijinshiki.
But actually, I couldn't go there.
I couldn't come to that ceremony actually.
I was kind of... I had another thing.
So, one of my friend, that guy, have been keeping my thing for like 7, 8 years.
Yeah.
And he finally passes me the things.
You received it?
Yeah, yesterday.
Nice.
And that was so... Actually, what is inside was Sakubun.
Okay.
All my Sakubun that I wrote when I was 6th grade.
And it was so funny actually reading all these phrases in Sakubun.
Let me... Let me show you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was so funny.
Actually, I even don't remember what I buried inside.
This is all you buried inside?
Yes.
This was it?
Well, that's not that much.
Oh yeah.
Just like what?
Like 30 pieces of paper and that's it?
True, true.
I imagine more like a little toy or something.
Or like a little... What?
Like a letter or like more of like a... What?
Like something.
Yeah, yeah.
Key holder or something like that. Yeah.
Like a little toy or something like that.
Right. But I didn't put those things.
But those are some Sakubun.
Interesting.
03:01
Look at this.
Whoa.
"What is space?"
Look at me.
This is me when I was 6th grade, okay?
Okay.
"What is space?"
"The sun dies after 5 billion years and the earth dies too."
"And before that, mankind will perish."
"Before that happens, I want to live on Mars and develop technology that can live without the sun."
"And I want to extend the extinction of mankind even a little."
Whoa.
Wow. And he continues.
"I want to research space too. I thought it would be best if I could advance space development along with the improvement of the Earth's environment."
"But that's very difficult, so I need all the Earthlings to cooperate, learn about space, and pass on this endless plan to the Earthlings."
"I think the infinite universe is the infinite possibility of mankind."
Elementary school graduation?
This is elementary school graduation.
That's so funny.
Really? You're like a serious man.
You're really like 6th grade.
Yeah.
Whoa.
So funny, funny.
I feel like you have a very high, like, like, "文章" skill.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, but I...
You were...
I remember...
You were a writer from that age.
Yeah, I remember I was loving writing all these things, you know.
Saku-bun and poem things.
You write better than I do at your age.
No, no. You write better than me.
Okay, is that a different one?
Yeah. Like...
Okay, let's ignore this.
Yeah.
You love "宇宙" (Uchuu)
Whoa, yeah.
This is another one about "宇宙", right?
"宇宙人" (Uchuu-jin)
Maybe that was the topic?
Maybe.
Okay.
"宇宙人"
"宇宙とは人類"
Oh, that's a mistake.
"宇宙は人類が住めると思う"
"なぜなら火星には薄い二酸化炭素が主体だから"
"植物を植えれば酸素になる"
Whoa.
Wow.
Scientific.
"いや、それより前に"
"いや、火星に大量の二酸化炭素を送り込む"
"そして火星に温室効果を作り、氷を溶かす"
"そして水を作り、海を作る"
"そこに原室的な植物を植えれば、酸素は作り出せる"
"そこに人類が生き、いや、"
"いや、最初は動物の方がいいかもしれない"
"でも、そうやって思考錯誤していくうちに、人類が住める火星になるんじゃないかと思う"
"そうなったら、人類は地球人ではなく宇宙人になれると思う"
Wow.
So funny.
You have a really like...
What?
Like, "自信がある"
Yeah, yeah.
Confidence in your writing.
Yeah.
06:02
It's so...
Like, it's not...
Like, in a way it's cute, but like, it's not straightforward cute.
Oh, really?
You know what I'm talking about?
Like, it's cute that you're writing these kinds of things in 6th grade,
but like, I imagine it to be a little bit more like soft, kind of like...
Oh, yeah.
The topic's to be a little bit more softer.
That's right.
It's actually like really like severe topic, right?
He's completely like, you know...
Like, "Maseteru" or like...
Oh, yeah.
You know.
Oh, yeah.
Right, right, right.
"Kawaii kunai"
"Kyougakusei"
Yeah.
Yeah, it's so funny.
Reading all these, you know, these letters that I hand wrote.
Oh, yeah.
It's really different from the one I write right now.
Right.
And it's...
You know, it speaks a lot from the fact that you put "sakubun" in your time capsule.
You know?
I... It really...
You did have that character of like loving literature.
And right now you read a lot of books and you like to, you know, write a lot of lyrics.
And I think, you know, this is... This connects, right?
Like, it's... This manifested in what you are right now.
So, you know, it... You had that... This was really you back then.
Like you decided to put all these words that you wrote in the time capsule.
So, yeah.
Right.
Fascinating.
Sure. I wrote about footballs.
Oh, you love football then!
Yeah.
Nice.
And, you know, this was when I went to the United States and did homestay.
Oh, yeah?
Wrote about this.
And this is "sakubun" that I...
"Hyakusatsu"
January 1st, new year. The beginning of 2007.
My goal this year is to read 100 books.
Wow! It's like... Yeah, it's like who you are right now!
Yeah, I haven't been changed actually.
Yeah!
Yeah.
Reading all those "sakubuns"
So, so... Like, I found about myself much and it's really...
That's fascinating.
I wrote about my "omoi de" about "undoukai"
I did "shougai butsuki" also with my dad.
Okay.
And I wrote about those things.
Yeah? Tell me about it.
Yeah.
"Hyakumetoruso" was easy.
I don't know what happened behind me, but I was first.
But the problem was eating "senbei"
You know all these "shougai butsuki"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Damn it! I can't get "senbei"
No good! I can't get it no matter what.
09:01
I was close to "biri" when I entered the "nini-san-kyaku"
Oh no!
But from here, my counterattack begins.
I was confident in "ninini-san-kyaku"
I took a shortcut and got to the "nini-san-kyaku" starting position.
And I dashed.
But I couldn't breathe.
Somehow I reached the goal at "nii" and I fell.
The two of us were together. My father was holding "senbei" with his hand.
And I was close to him.
We were very sly parents.
And I was waiting for the "bento"
*laughs*
Wow, that's...
You... this looks... this sounds like I'm reading part of a book, a novel.
You really had some like...
Yeah, like...
Like literature skills back then, dude.
*laughs*
That's just some talent, dude.
No, that's...
It's really cute to me.
What he tries to write in.
So funny.
Yeah, that was a big thing to me.
It was so fun reading all these things and find myself.
And also like talk with my friend.
When we were together at elementary school, we haven't been changed much.
But there's so many things that we had to talk about.
Right, right, right, right.
It was so fun.
You must have had a great time.
Yeah, it was.
Yesterday, right?
Last night, yeah.
It was...
Good stuff.
Yeah, it is.
I mean, it's really fun to open up these things.
Yeah.
You know?
Good stuff.
You know, time capsules are more fun when you open them rather than when you dig them inside.
So like it's...
You have to wait a whole lot, right?
So like it builds up.
So like yeah, that must have been really enjoyable, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
Well, good stuff.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
It's the end of the pie.
