Annoying Shout & "The Gift"
◎ 2nd Week of September (9/4-10) 1)Annoying Shout!!! Some of my face-to-face course students may know,my apartment faces to the contraction site now.The site is maybe 50 meters away from my apartment. They are now building a large-sized municipal apartment house forthe city residents until the end of this year. This week, they were disassembling the scaffold around thehalf-built apartment house. One of them, seemingly a leaderwho is older than other workers, angrily shouted against his youngpeople to make them work more briskly.The old guy shouted in a very loud voice from the morning till the evening every day. His voice could be heard to my apartment clearly.It was very noisy and I almost lost my temper against hisvoice!!! It was tough for me to focus on work in such environment. Hope they will finish the disassembling work as soon as possible,leave the site and never show up again!!! 2) ”The Gift” This is the title of a bossa nova song I came to love for the first time.This week I gave a hard English lesson to one of my deshisas a part of educating work. I used this song titled "The Gift".If you listen to this song, you might say "Oh, I know this song"or"Oh! I've ever heard this song ". This song received lots of attentionabout 20 years ago when I was a sophomore at Bukkyo Univ.At that time, I took a year off from the school with disappointment,came home and stayed with my parents in Iizuka.After I joined the Coming-of-the Age Ceremony,I began to work part time at 太平楽 in 新飯塚.I happened to work with my high school mates there duringtwo months until the end of March. Every day I came home around the midnight from the part time job. Then, I used to watch プロ野球ニュースdrinking some sake. One day, when I was watching a TV commercial after the new show,a very fascinating melody caught my ears.That was "The Gift", and I got intrigued by this melody very much. Three weeks later, I happened to read an news article about the songon Sports Paper and then I went to a local record shop to find a cassette tapethis song was recorded in.Luckily I found the tape and bought it right away. Since then I have listened to this song for almost 20 years.This is the very song which got me interested in bossa nova and jazz. Now I use this song to let my students know the origin of my interestin Jazz and English pronunciation.-----------Ken