今回は前のセメスターで取っていたWrittng for Broadcastingのクラスで書いた文章を載せます。
このエッセイでは実際にインタビューを行い、そこから得た情報をもとにHuman Interest（日本語では三面記事と言うそうです）を書きました。
インタビューしたのはWashington D.C.でカーディーラー会社を経営するイエメン人の男性、ニューヨークで日本食レストランを経営する日経アメリカ人の女性です。
アメリカを母国としない彼らがアメリカで暮らすようになったわけ、母国にたいする想いを記事にしました。
His house looks like the Taji Mahal in India, painted all white and gold, located in a rich, quiet residential street in Washington D.C. The house is furnished with expensive antiques from Arabia. You can smell ancient Arabic incense from all of the floors. The owner of this glorious house is Mani Roseberry. He is friendly, polite and gentlemanly. Also, he speaks four languages and fluently in three.
He was the youngest child in a family of three children, born in Ethiopia in 1945. His father was a politician who attempted to be a President of the country. However he lost and moved his family to Yemen in 1955. Roseberry spent 10 years in Yemen before moving to America to study at Washington University to join his elder brothers. He majored in interior design and minored in French. After graduating from the University, he worked in a design company for 30 years. “Designing was my life work,” Roseberry explained. “I was engaged in design work for almost 35 years, and I still can’t help designing interiors.”
He retired from the company when he was 60 years old, and worked at a car dealership, which buy cars in the United States and sells the cars in Yemen for a cheaper price. “Yemen is still a backward country. I wanted to help my nation grow from the United States for the rest of my life, owing cars is symbolic of middleclass in America. I wanted Yemen countrymen to have a sense of middleclass even if they are very not yet,” said Roseberry.
He was not a born trilingual. He did not speak English until he came to America. He had started to learn English after entering the University. “Everything was different and confusing. That was the hardest moment of all in my entire life,” said Roseberry. “But the thing that helped me were the people. American people are the most friendly in the world. They taught me English and hung out with me even through I could not speak English well. Building human networks is the most important task no matter what occupation you are engaged in. Do not forget we all survive by helping each other.”
Women are stronger than men in terms of mentality. There is a strong Japanese woman who got married to an American man and run a restaurant in the U.S. Her Japanese restaurant, which is designed in the image of a cool, modern Japanese bar named SATO, is located in Elmwood Street, Buffalo, New York. Smith Satomi, the owner of this restaurant, has an active, smart and courageous personality. “I just wanted to study something in English because I had learned English when I was a child. I have no other reason to study in the U.S. I just wanted to see America. People should go overseas more and see the world.”
Her American life started when she was a college student, in 1996. She enrolled in Central Washington University and majored in geography and communication. When she was a junior, she moved to Buffalo and spent one year at Buffalo State College, using a national exchange program. Her experience at Buffalo State College changed her life significantly. She met her current husband (named) Josh Smith and started a dating with him.
After graduating from school, Satomi worked for a Japanese trading company for nine years. Also, Josh worked in a Japanese high school as an English teacher during the same time period. They continued their relationship and got married in 2003. They moved to Buffalo, New York in 2011 with their two children.
Satomi started her first career as the owner of a small restraint located on Buffalo, Ground Island. She worked there for two years, and then opened Sato in January 2014. This was a new challenge for her. “There are many difference between Japanese food and American food. For example, ramen is usually eaten in five minutes in Japan, but American people take a long time to eat ramen while enjoying conversation. It means that the soup gets cold and tastes saltier to the customer. So, when I cook ramen, I am careful to make it less salty. The difficulty is to keep the real Japanese taste while adopting foods for Americans.” Her day starts at 9:00 AM and ends at 9:00 PM. Even though she works hard every day, she never gives up. Her current goal is for people in Buffalo to come to love her restaurant.