Baskadia

第一章、 英語講師になるまで

　私の亡き父はウザかった。高校入試の合格発表についてきたし、就職したら２時間以上かけて勤務していた塾まで挨拶にきた。

　高校２年生の時までは、理系に進むつもりだった。ロボットを作りたかった。しかし、四日市高校は当時男子の割合が高くて男子クラスがあり、私はその男子クラスに放り込まれた。

　今もその傾向があるが、当時も男子生徒は理系が多くて私はその中で理系に行くのが当然だと思って勉強していたが、数学の勉強を始めるとめまいがするような感じがし始めた。

　それは、公式の成り立ちを納得していないのに無理やり使わされることに生理的な拒否感が生まれたらしい。模試の結果によると、文系なら難関国立大に合格できるけれど、理系だとそこまではムリという結果。泣く泣く「教育学部」に進むことになった。

　生きていくには英語講師になるしか選択の余地はなかった。しかし、その英語でも真摯に向き合うと問題だらけだった。

Chapter 1, How I Became an English Teacher

　My late father was annoying. He followed me around to announce my success in high school entrance exams, and when I got a job, he drove more than two hours to the cram school where I worked to greet my boss.

　By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I planned to go into the sciences. I wanted to build robots. However, Yokkaichi High School had a high percentage of boys at the time and had a boys' class, and I was thrown into that class.

　I was thrown into the boys' class, which is still the case today, but even then, most of the boys were science majors, and I studied thinking that it was natural for me to go into the sciences, but when I started studying mathematics, I began to feel dizzy.

　It seems that this created a physiological rejection of being forced to use formulas even though I was not convinced of their origins. According to the results of the mock examinations, I could pass the entrance exam of a difficult national university if I majored in the humanities, but not if I majored in science. In tears, I decided to study at the Faculty of Education.

　I had no choice but to become an English teacher to survive. However, even in English, I found that they had many problems when I took a serious look at it.