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Welcome to 英語で雑談＝Kevin’s English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hello.
Yes, after talking about my childhood memory.
Salt Lake City?
Yes, Salt Lake City, when I was in a Mormon family.
Yes, yes.
And I remember things now.
Memories coming back.
Okay, a lot of flashbacks.
Yes, yes, yes.
I remember those, for example, like religious things.
As I was, you know, a little boy, it's, you know, please understand it's like a cute memory.
It's not, you know, those things.
You're not trying to offend anybody or anything like that?
No, no, that's not something I want, but it's just a cute memory.
I was trying my best to, you know.
Is this about Mormonism?
No, it's just...
No, it's just completely different?
Yes.
Okay.
Yes, maybe Mormonism or...
Maybe?
Maybe not.
Okay.
So we went to church every Sunday.
Sunday?
Yes, yes, yes.
And went to the room inside, and there were like Bokshi-san?
Yes.
I'm not sure, like the guy.
Yes.
And we were like sitting around, and he spoke things to us, which I didn't understand.
You had no idea?
Yes, no idea what was going on, but he spoke Japanese a little bit.
Wow.
Yeah, he said he went to Japan to, you know, do things.
Oh, okay.
And he kind of spoke Japanese a little bit.
And after that, we did a basketball together.
What?
Yeah.
With the preacher?
He wasn't there.
He wasn't there?
But everyone in the church?
Yeah.
Y'all got together?
Yeah, if my memory was correct, in the church, they have like gym inside.
Whoa.
It's like taikukan inside, and you have rooms, rooms, rooms, and you have big taikukan inside.
If my memory was right.
Okay, okay.
I'm not sure, maybe.
But then, like, in the room, I was 12, many like 12 kids, or like 10, 11, elementary guys
in the room, in the preacher.
And then we went to the court, basketball gym, and many like big guys came, like high
schoolers, or college students, maybe, like big, big guys came in, and we played basketball together.
Whoa.
Yeah.
I remember.
I wonder where they came from.
I don't know.
They're basketball team players?
Are they in the same religion, you think?
I think so.
Oh, okay.
Because I believe that was in the same building.
Like in the same church, kind of?
Yeah, I believe so.
Okay.
Yeah, and the hoop was very, very high to me.
You were a kid, right?
Yeah, I tried to throw my basketball to the hoop, and like big guy just threw it to my
chute.
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Yeah, I remember that.
Oh, okay.
But yeah, we went to church every Sundays, and I remember that was once a month, they
skip meals, like breakfast and lunch.
Oh, really?
Like fasting?
Yeah, yeah.
They did a fasting for like, I think that was a daytime fasting or something.
Okay.
Yeah, so I was, one day they didn't prepare anything, and I was like, oh, I'm hungry,
but can I get like cereals or something?
And they're like, we don't eat today.
And I know you're not Mormon, you can eat if you want to, but at least we don't eat.
And I was like, oh, yeah, then I would try that.
Okay, okay.
And yeah, I remember I was so hungry.
Right.
Especially if you're not like warned of like, it's coming.
Yeah, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
And they brought me like a big, big church.
Not the church that you usually go, but like you go on a ride.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Big ones.
It was like more like a museum to me.
They showed many pictures and stories, and you have like statues and everything.
And we saw inside and everything.
And they told me that if you don't want to, you don't need to come,
but it might be a good experience for you.
So if you want to, and then I said, yeah.
And then I went there.
And then at last, they have like people to explain what Mormon is to you.
Okay.
And explained to me.
But I didn't get a deep insight.
Okay, great, thank you.
Then handed me a little Bible to me, written in Japanese.
Oh.
Yeah.
Wow.
And then, yeah, that's how I remember.
What's with the Japanese?
That's kind of rare.
Yeah.
I guess maybe because you were Japanese, they wanted to take you to a church where they were like Japanese.
Yeah, maybe.
They have like Japanese Bibles and stuff like that maybe?
Maybe, yeah.
But my host, my host brother, as I told you, they were like four brothers.
Yeah.
Two of them came to Japan as a kind of work, as a preaching.
Preaching?
Yeah, for like Senkyo.
Like a religious preacher?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come to Japan and do their thing.
Wow.
So I think it's relatively, I guess, like connected to Japan.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did you all meet?
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
So, but he didn't speak Japanese.
Yeah, so it must have been hard for him.
Yeah, yeah.
He said he was learning Japanese, but now he's back to his hometown.
Okay.
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How old are they?
So my host brother was one year older than me.
Okay.
And that was the second boy.
Okay.
The oldest one was two, three years older than us.
Oh, so y'all were close.
Yeah, we were close, close, yeah.
And the third one was eight, ten at that time, something.
I was 12.
Okay.
And the fourth one was six, seven.
Yeah.
Oh.
Cute little boy.
Wow.
Yeah.
Are y'all still connected?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
After the corona, the host brother came to Japan and we met and talked about things.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, it's been like 18 years, right?
18 years, right then.
Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
How was the meetup like?
I mean, he hasn't changed.
Not changed?
Yeah, we were kind of the same, you know?
Oh, okay.
Yeah, but he got like matured.
Oh, like you can see it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That he got matured.
Very polite.
Yeah.
Oh.
That's fine.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's nice.
He was very good at playing piano.
And at that time, I was 12, he was 13.
Okay.
And he did a piano kyoushitsu by himself.
What?
He taught people when he was 13?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Many kids.
They were kids.
Kids came to his place.
Oh, okay.
You know, teaches how to play the piano and he was very good.
Okay.
And that's kind of the reason why I started loving, you know.
Music?
Music.
Oh, okay.
You know, I told him that I'm still doing this and now I'm playing piano a little bit.
And he was, oh, really?
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's a good guy.
Yeah.
Wow.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember that.
Yeah.
You know, experiencing those different religions for a 12-year-old kid.
Yeah.
It's very good.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
It was very interesting to me.
Oh.
Yeah.
Like you realize that, you know, the world has a lot different cultures and religion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So that was my memory.
That's nice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's nice.
And they didn't have any caffeines.
Right.
I remember doing a kikaku about that, right?
There's a lot of soda places.
Like in New York, you have a lot of coffee shops.
But like in Utah, you have a lot of like soda places because they don't allow caffeine.
Oh, yeah.
Because of the religion.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
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So I don't remember soda places.
I wasn't that careful enough.
But yeah, they told me they didn't drink any coffee.
Or alcohol.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But they do drink a lot of sodas.
Did they drink sodas?
Yeah, yeah.
Like Dr. Pepper?
Yeah.
But my image was they drink a freaking amount of milk.
What?
Really?
That's my image.
They drank a lot of milk?
Yeah.
To me, it was the first time seeing this big milk.
Like a gallon?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like a gallon bag of milk.
And that's stronger than anything else.
Oh.
Well, I mean, that's normal, right?
Yeah.
I think that's, you know, America.
You saw America, not Salt Lake City.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
They drink a lot of milk.
Milk?
Not this much?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's stronger than anything else back here.
Yeah, it's a strong impression.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
