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2015年オーストラリア海外研修★番外編★ [2015Australia]

【7月27日MSJ校での歓迎会における本校副校長のメッセージ】

On behalf of Seirei teachers and 30 students,
I would like to thank you all for inviting us to this welcome assembly.
I especially appreciate the importance of this meeting
because this is 20th memorable year for Seirei and MSJ sister school relationship.
I sincerely thank all the MSJ teachers, students, organizers, and 30 host families
that will accept our students for two weeks.

IN SEIREI We have morning assembly at our school every week at our school
and as a vice principal, I must read the Bible and give a short speech to Seirei students every week.
I was born in Buddhist family and I am not a Christian.
You can easily imagine how difficult it is for me and how nervous I become the day before the assembly.
But I was far more nervous than that for the last couple of days.
Obviously because I have to give a speech in English in front of such a large audience.
Since I’m very nervous right now, adding one more aspect to make me more nervous shouldn’t make much difference.
It may be reckless, but I would like to talk a little about the Bible.
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”
This phrase from the Bible should be familiar to you.
Last month, I heard one Japanese catholic father’s speech on TV.
He said, “You shall be a neighbour of a someone who need neighbour.”
When we look around, we are all different from each other.
Still, ethnicity, nationality, countries, generations, beyond all the differences,
it is necessary to continue to be a neighbour.
And it is probably the founding spirit of our sister school relationship.

The fact our exchange program have been going on for 20 years proves that it has a lot of good essence which needs to be passed on to next generations to make a history.
In the past 20 years, teachers and students changed. The world changed.
Still our relationship as neighbour is unchanged.
For the next ten or twenty years, many things will change.
We will still remain to be friends. We are together making a history.
I hope that our sister school relationship will last forever by being passed on to the generations to come. We will forever be good neighbours.

As a 20th year anniversary gift, we would like to give Komainu to MSJ.
Komainu is a pair of gardian dogs for Japanese shrines.
I give these as gardian dog of MSJ With big prayer for our relationship to go on for another 20 years and more.

Thank you very much for listening.

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