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Professor Sarajean Rossitto: "I can't believe you are letting your daughter go to Japan!&qu

  • Faculty of Liberal Arts, U.S.A
  • Jan 26, 2018
  • 2 min read

My father was going to have an open heart surgery the week after my interview with the Tokyo YMCA. They told me I had two weeks to decide, but I said “no, I’ll decide right now.” I called my mother afterwards and told her that I was going to Japan within the next two months. Our family had a general agreement that we weren’t gonna tell my dad until after the surgery, that way he wouldn’t be so worried. However, one of my aunts, the night before he has the surgery, says to him: “I can’t believe you’re letting your daughter go to Japan.” My mother was screaming! She tells me that this was the reason why he was in the ICU for only one day, and out of the hospital in a week — he desperately wanted to talk about it! It just so happened that at the time, there was a special on TV about Western women who would go to Asia thinking they were going to teach English, but end up becoming a hostess. For this, my uncle Mario kept calling my dad to say “you never know what they do in Japan.”

YMCA東京との面接がある次の週に、父が心臓の手術を控えていました。二週間の内に決断すれば良いと言われましたが、私は「いいえ、今決断します」と答えました。その後、母に電話をかけ、二ヶ月以内に日本へ行く旨を伝えました。心配をかけないよう、手術が終わるまで父には言わないでおこうと家族で決めました。ところが、手術の前夜に、叔母の一人が言ってしまったんです。「娘を日本まで行かせるなんて信じられないわ」と。母は悲鳴をあげていました。どうしても私に話がしたかったのか、父は集中治療室にはたった一日しか入らず、その後一週間で退院できたと母は言います。偶然にもその頃、英語を教えるとアジアへ行ったものの、結局ホステスになってしまった西洋の女性がテレビで特集されていました。このことで、叔父のマリオは「日本で何をしていてどうなってるのかわからないよ」と父に電話をよくかけていました。 -国際教養学部 サラジーン・ロシット教授 アメリカ出身


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