えんじゅ：２３１号
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マイケル先生 竹馬日本縦断記 |
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At 6 am on July 1st 2009, my wife Miki and I began a challenge to walk the length of Japan, from Cape Soya to Cape Sata, on takeuma. It was a crazy challenge, but we felt ready. We had our 20kg bags, our new bamboo takeuma and our map that would show us which roads to take for the next 3000kms.
At 6.25am, we faced our first major problem. Our map was gone. Not forgotten, but gone. Winds stronger than a typhoon had blown the map from Miki’s hands as we stopped to check the road ahead. Now, our map was floating toward Russia. As we watched it disappear, we both wondered how we would find our way to Cape Sata, 2998kms away.
At that moment I think we both thought this crazy challenge was impossible. How could we walk 3000kms on stilts? I understood why my students here had said ‘we can’t help save the rainforest and the orangutans in Borneo. That problem is just too big.’ The fact is every problem looks impossible when you just think about it. If people just think about saving those forests and orangutans without doing anything, then maybe it will be impossible to save them both. But it is amazing what you can do when you start something. Problems suddenly disappear. Impossible things suddenly seem possible.
As our map floated out of sight, the only thing we could do was get back on our takeuma and walk. And so we walked, for the next 189 days until we reached our goal at Cape Sata. Our impossible moment on that first day had passed as quickly as the waves had taken our map. With each day, problems came and went with the sun but we just kept walking, because you know, nothing really is impossible once you start.
- 「自調自考を考える」（そのＣＣＸＸｌｌ）
- 平成２２年度入学式
- 中３ニュージーランド研修
イギリス研修
シンガポール研修 - 新任紹介
- 褒賞
- 平成２１年度 大学入試結果
- 平成２２年度 年間行事予定
