give it one's best shot

Today is August 16th, so we held a waterfall activity as usual as on the day with 6.

To our joy, we met there two foreigners living in Japan.

One of them is a Pakistani living in Japan for 35 years and he can speak Japanese so fluentry.

The other is from Italy living in Japan for 2 years. He said he is studying Japanese and English now.

Because we make a habit of taking about impressions each other after standing waterfall, we started it as usual.

When the Italian had a turn talking, he said first of all "日本語むずかしい" in Japanese.

However, he continued in Japanese. "I'll try it."

I was moved.

I've seen a lot of people from overseas speaking Japanese among the Japanese.

Some spoke fluently, and some spoke not.

Every time when I see it, I always respect them.

However, I've never put myself in their shoes.

If I'm in America and all the people around me are the American, I can't try to speak even a single word.

I know it's kind of too late to realize, but sometimes I should give it my best shot to talk what I think in English with only what I know now. 

Peace World Now Presence vol.3

Yesterday, on August 15th, our Kensui no taki monogatari held an event named "Peace World Npw Presence vol.3.

We had this event for the purpose of taking international exchange since three years ago.

Last year and two years ago, we had this event at Alice Garden located in the middle of Hiroshima city.

We had a very happy and enjoyable time with a lot of people including people from overseas.

However, this year, under covid-19 pandemic, we couldn't plan such a gathering event like that.

We had thought over what kind of event we could offer and 

We decided to give it our best shot to present an online public talk.

We invited a special guest Mr. Humayun A. Mughal (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BBA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB)

who is a Pakistani and has lived in Japan for 35 years.

He can speak Japanese so fluently and with a pleasant sense of humor.

I could understand the basic ideas a lot about the abstract and confusing themes like as religion and peace and war and so on.

one more topic about covid-19

 Since this spring, my son has sometimes claimed sick.

He says that his temperature is sometimes over 37℃, and he is fine except for that.

However, under covid-19 pandemic, even if it's only a slight fever, it's a serious problem.

Now, we can't participate in every event or go to see a doctor without taking temperature.

My son is a senior in college.and majoring in occupational therapy.

Because he has something to do with medicine, he has been aware of his own health condition.

I think he has taken a huge rensponsibility for his behaviors.

He has kept a voluntary restraint and it surprises me so much.  

If it wasn't covid-19, he could join the clinical traing in the hospital every day.

However, their on-site training were canceled. Instead, all what they can do is to do their assignments by themselves at home day by day.

I thought his slight fever might be caused by mental stress.

One day of last week, he lined me that he had a slight fever again.

Unfortunately, it was a day before when he would go to college.

As a result, he had to be absent from college, so, he got nervous.

I took him to his doctor.

At first, doctor said to him to stay home until his fever went down just as I expected.

However, we couln't spend two weeks without doing anything.

I'd already decided to have him tested for coronavirus.

I thought the only way to calm down my son  was to prove his negative.

We asked the doctor to make an arrangement for test.

My son and I got so nervous that we couldn't sleep well at that night after taking the test.

Anyway, next morning, we got a good news that said my son tested negative.

We got relieved.