前回お会いしたのは、初秋の頃だったろうか。
コロンビア教育大学院に留学中の小林さやかちゃん、秋学期を優秀な成績で終え、
束の間の冬休みが始まった時に、御連絡いただいた。
ビリギャルと言われた時代、なぜ自分が無我夢中で目標に向かえたのか。
地頭が良かったのではない、そのパッションの根源を脳科学的に証明してみたい。
向上心と探究心とエネルギーの塊である彼女と話していると、時が経つのを忘れてしまう。
外気温マイナス10度が当たり前になったニューヨークでも、心にポッと火が灯る。
人との御縁を大切にする彼女、２年後の飛躍した姿が、今から眩しい。
The last time we met was probably in early fall.
Sayaka Kobayashi, a Columbia Graduate School of Education student, finished the fall semester with excellent grades.
She contacted me at the beginning of her brief winter break.
Why could she achieve her goals so hard in the days when she was known as "Biri-Gyaru"?
She said it was not because she was brilliant.
Since she wanted to prove the root of that passion from a brain-scientific perspective, she is now studying.
I lost track of time when talking with her, a bundle of ambition, curiosity, and energy.
Even in New York, where outside temperatures of minus 10 degrees Celsius are now the norm, she lights a fire in my heart.
She values her relationships with people, and I can't wait to see how far she has come in the next two years.
