を英語に直すことができない。


not in an unaccountable mood, not in a wonderful mood, not in a mysterious mood . . . but I am in a fushigi-na mood.


If I could just get lost in a book now . . . final exams and the end of my exchange program coming at hand have disturbed my mind.


If there were four semesters in a year at university, that would fit me. I need / needed more turning points.


Sweden was good. Wanted communicate more Swedish people there. But I would say Oslo is better to study in. Stockholm is too developed as a city for students.


居酒屋に行きたい。たこわさを食べたい。豆腐と納豆食べたい。『センセイの鞄』を読み直したい。日本の電車にのりたい。日本語の本に耽りたい。日本の繊細さに触れたい。京都に行きたい。太宰治を読みたい。日本の川の近くに住みたい。日本酒を飲みたい。花火が見たい。逢いたい。



池の水が鏡みたいに
空の蒼の色を真似てる
公園に住む水鳥が
それに命を与える
光と影と表と裏
矛盾も無く
寄り添ってるよ
私達がこんな風で
あれたら...

愛 愛 本当の意味は
分からないけど

誰かを通して
何かを通して
想いは繋がって
いくのでしょう
遠くにいるあなたに
今言えるのはそれだけ
悲しい昨日が
涙の向こうで
いつか微笑みに
変わったら
人を好きに
もっと好きに
なれるから
頑張らなくてもいいよ

瓦礫の街のきれいな花
健気に咲くその一輪を
「枯らす事なく
育てていける」と
誰が言い切れる?
それでも
この小さな祈りを
空に向けて
放ってみようよ
風船のように
色とりどりの祈り

愛 愛 それは強くて
だけど脆くて

また争いが
自然の猛威が
安らげる場所を奪って
眠れずにいるあなたに
言葉などただ虚しく
沈んだ希望が
崩れた夢が
いつの日か
過去に変わったら
今を好きに
もっと好きに
なれるから
あわてなくてもいいよ

愛 愛 本当の意味は
分からない
愛 愛 だけど強くて

雨の匂いも
風の匂いも
あの頃とは
違ってるけど
この胸に住むあなたは
今でも教えてくれる
悲しい昨日が
涙の向こうで
いつか微笑みに
変わったら
人を好きに もっと
好きになれるから
今を好きに もっと
好きになれるから
あわてなくてもいいよ


『to U』 by Bank Band with Salyu


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頑張らなくていいよ、あせらなくてもいいよ、というのはなかなか言えない。英語にもこれを表す特殊表現なんかないだろうし。言葉はいつでも難しい。世の中、言葉にならないことの方が多い。言葉にしない方がいい時もある。

帰ったら日本文学に没頭する日を作りたい。日本語も上手くなりたい。
I had been bored with the normal life in Oslo until about one week ago. Since I moved from a student village on a mountain side to another rather in the centre, I had not met my friends for a week or so. I was, as it were, an eager student: I had gone to the university, heard the lecture, and gone home directly afterwards. No, I must not have been an eager student... I just wanted to be in a private room and to avoid to be in a community, I feel so now. I had not been in the library long ever for my food in the fridge was waiting for me after the lectures and there were no reason to be in the library, which has no food for me and is not private at all. The things in Norway are way expensive so I must cook by myself always. Even MacDonald's is expensive here in Norway...

I had dreamed to live by myself without any helps of my parents: a life in a cosy private room which is close to my university: a life which is supposed to force me to study hard. But, in fact, this life is not such a brilliant one. The closeness to the university, on the contrary, indulged me in staying in a private paradise-seeming room. I did not pretend to be a devoted student; I have just realized that I was not such a sort of student.

What is an eager student? I thought I knew the answer for the question, but I did not: nor do I even now. I do not know how I can hit upon an answer for it. But, right from the beginning, there must not be any answers for it: we have to create an answer by ourselves: and there must be various answers to each person. Then, my answer for it is... hmmm...

Several insects were about to come into my room from the window. I live on 8th floor now: How come it is possible insects fly that high? I used to live on 6th floor in an old student village and many flies came into my room. I thought they could not come any more in my new room, but it was not so. Insects in Oslo are really big. I do not why. They may grow up too much by hibernating underground waiting the end of a long cold winter in Oslo. I do not why. I just hate them in my room: I hate to kill them or let them out by flighting with them with a towel.

I changed my clothes into tight ones. I was used to wear pajama in my room. But, I did not want to be relaxed with it tonight. I have got to finish my paper tonight, for sure.

It was bees that tried to come into my room. Really big. Round and dark black. No yellow on their body. Fast.

I signed up for Couch Surfing in February but I had left it as it was long while. Something suddenly reminded me of the site one day and I renewed my page to prepare for welcoming surfers. After a few hours, I got a request of my couch, which surprised me, but I said yes since there was no reason to refuse it. Something new started at one swoop.

Unaccountable atmosphere surrounded me. I relatively concentrated on English on the screen of my laptop after my couch was reserved. I felt as something invisible had been watching on me not to do but reading it. But my mind was somewhere else. Sometimes I looked out of the window once in a while: lights from the windows and cars and an figure on the window who was watching me just like I did: again the screen.