第７７回　WORKSHOP報告（２月２２日） / 参加者８３名

第７７回　WORKSHOP報告（２月２２日） / 参加者８３名

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（１：新人の方の自己紹介です）

 

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（２：前半マテリアル作成者のYさんから図を使用しての内容説明がありました）

 

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（３：こちらもYさんからのご説明です）

 

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（４：後半マテリアル作成者のMさんが内容説明をされている様子です）

 

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（５：今回も８０人以上の方々がご参加されました）

 

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《　今回のworkshop　》

 

○workshop参加人数：８３名（うち新人の方：５名）

 

○【前半】：「宝くじが当たったら何に使うか？」についてディスカッション

 

○【後半】：「故郷」についてのディスカッション

 

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＜英語サークル　E’s club　第７７回workshopのご案内＞

 

みなさまこんばんは、E’s club幹事のKです。第７７回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。

 

今回は前半のマテリアルをYさん、後半のマテリアルをMさんにそれぞれご作成いただきました。

前半は「宝くじが当たったら何に使うか？」について、性格診断と組み合わせて考えていただきます。

後半は事故が起きた原発の周りに住む人々についての記事を参考に、「故郷」についてのディスカッションを行ないます。

 

[今週のマテリアル]

 

＜FIRST HALF＞

At the end of last year, I bought 10 lottery tickets for the first time in my life.

No wonder I didn’t win a lottery, but I had been enjoying imagining the way to use winning money until winning numbers come out.

It was unusual for me to have a delusional dream like that, I think 3000 yen wasn’t expensive for its value.

So I want to share this feeling with you guys free of charge, and let’s think about the way to use winning money together.

In first half, please share your ideas. Then, in latter half, some keywords will be given according to the result of Psychological Test.

Based on these keywords, please keep on doing a brain-storming to make unique idea.

# if you have English dictionary, I strongly recommend that you bring it on that day.

 

昨年末、初めて宝くじを買いました。300円しかあたらなかったのですが、当選番号が発表されるまでの間、もし当たったら？と妄想して楽しむ事ができました。

そのような事を妄想した事はなかったため、3000円なら悪くないな～と思いました。

今日は、みなさんにも宝くじが当たったら何に使うか？を、考えていただきたいと思います。

前半は皆さんの考えをグループ内で紹介していただき、後半はこちらからキーワードをお伝えしますので、それを使って更に考えてみて下さい。

※英語の辞書があると便利です

 

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全40分

 

■self introduction.(自己紹介)

– 5 minutes.

 

□Q1. Winning money, 300,000/30,000,000 yen.

How are you going to use the winning money? Please share your opinion.

(宝くじを買って、30万/3000万円あたったらどうしますか？)

– 10 minutes.

 

 

■Keyword Addition by Psychological Test(性格診断によるキーワードの追加)

 

In order to let you come up with various ideas, I’ll give you two keywords in accordance with results of simple Psychological Test.

These keywords which related to your personality are different in each person, please take your personality into account and do a brain-storming again while combining two given keywords.

From now on, you are free to choose the amount of winning money from 300yen to 300,000,000yen, as you like.

# List of keywords will be distributed after the Psychological Test.

 

様々な賞金の使い方を考えていただくために、こちらからキーワードを与えます。

心理テストの結果に応じたキーワードが2つ与えられますので、キーワードを組み合わせ、自分の性格を考慮した賞金の使い方を考えてみて下さい（キーワードはグループのメンバーでも各々異なります）。

賞金額は、各人で300円～3億円までで自由に決めて下さい。

※キーワードのリストは、心理テスト終了後に紙で配布します。

 

– Psychological Test: 10 minutes

 

 

■Thinking Time

– 5 minutes.

 

 

□Q2. How much is your winning money? How are you planning to use the winning money? please share your opinion.

(宝くじの賞金はいくらですか？どのように使いますか？)

– 10 minutes.

 

(If time permits.)

□Q3. Choose the best idea in your group. You may combine each idea to make the best of the best idea.

(時間があればグループでベストなアイデアを選ぶ, 各々のアイデアを組み合わせて作っても良い)

 

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＜LATTER HALF＞

What is hometown? For us.

 

Hello everyone my name is Tatsuya Miyakawa I’m in charge of making latter half theme.

 

Today I would like you to talk about the importance or future of our hometown. Before mark three year anniversary of 2011 march 11th earthquake and tsunami disaster.

 

Please check References and I hope everyone have a good opportunity to talk about or discuss your hometown.

 

※Before beginning Questions, Please make your self introduction including information about your hometown.

 

(Question)

Q1 Do you like your hometown?

If your answer is “Yes”, Why do you think so? and What is the good point? Please make an appeal!

If your answer is “No”, Why not? and What is the bad point? Do you have any idea to improve that point?

 

 

Q2 What is the important thing for you in your hometown? and why?

(Ex, nature, culture, climate, food, friends, local social network….etc)

 

 

Q3 According to Reference 1, Some people are living in exclusive zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

How do you think about their residential decision? and Can you agree with it?

 

 

Q4 Unfortunately exclusive zone, alike Chernobyl, has established in Fukushima Prefecture by the accident of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

If your hometown became the exclusive zone by accident or disaster, What would you do? or How would you feel about that?

(Reference 2 is a example of exclusive zone in Fukushima. But Please read [ATTENTION!!] before checking Reference 2)

 

 

(If you still have time.)

Q5 Next month will mark third year anniversary of 2011 march 11th earthquake tsunami disaster and the accident of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. But recovery has NOT completed yet.

What kind of things are necessary for the recovery of devastated area in Tohoku or exclusive zone in Fukushima?

 

 

Q6 What is the ideal state as we can say recovered? What is the ideal state of the future?

 

<Reference 1> (compulsory)

TED TALKS

“Holly morris:Why stay in chernobyl? Because it’s home”

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/ja/holly_morris_why_stay_in_chernobyl_because_it_s_home.html

 

※ If you can’t watch this video, Please read CNN’s article.

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CNN

“After chernobyl, they refused to leave”

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/07/opinion/morris-ted-chernobyl/index.html

 

(CNN) – On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s reactor No. 4 blew up after a cooling capability test, and the resulting nuclear fire lasted 10 days, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. To date, it’s the world’s worst nuclear accident. The 2011 Fukushima meltdown, of course, is still playing out — but actually, so is Chernobyl.

 

Nearly 28 years after the disaster, Reactor No. 4 simmers under its “sarcophagus,” a concrete and metal cover hastily built after the accident. It’s now cracked, rusted and leaking radiation. A partial roof collapse last February sent reverberations of fear throughout the world. As well it should have. With 200 tons of lava-like radioactive material still below the reactor, and the “New Safe Confinement”aimed at containing and protecting it not scheduled for completion till 2015 (already 15 years overdue) this story of nuclear disaster is in its early chapters.

 

Today, Chernobyl’s soil, water, and air are among the most highly contaminated on Earth. The reactor sits at the center of a 1,000-square-mile “Exclusion Zone,” a quarantined no-man’s land complete with border guards, passport control and radiation monitoring. Inside the Zone are hundreds of unmarked (and un-mapped) burial sites where machinery from the cleanup after the 1986 accident was dumped. These days, Ukraine’s four other nuclear power plants also dispose of their spent fuel inside the Zone.

It’s real, and it’s scary.

 

But amidst the complicated real-life calculations and compromises — where science and politics meet to duke out the viability of nuclear energy — the long, deep, human parable of Chernobyl is often lost. That story is partly embodied in an unlikely community of some 130 people, called “self-settlers” who, today, live inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

 

Almost all of them are women, the men having died off due to overuse of alcohol and cigarettes, if not the effects of elevated radiation. About 116,000 people were evacuated from the Zone at the time of the accident. Some 1,200 of them did not accept that fate. Of that group, the remaining women, now in their 70s and 80s, are the last survivors of a group that defied authorities — and it would seem, common sense — and illegally returned to their ancestral homes shortly after the accident.

 

I’ve been filming and interviewing this unlikely community since 2010.

 

The Zone’s scattered ghost villages are silent and bucolic, eerie and contaminated. Many villages were bulldozed after the accident, others remain — silent vestiges to the tragedy, and home to the ubiquitous wild boar. Still, other villages have 1 or 2 or 8 or 12 babushkas, or babas — the Russian and Ukrainian words for “grandmother” — living in them.

 

One self-settler, Hanna Zavorotnya, told me how she snuck through the bushes back to her village in the summer of 1986. “Shoot us and dig the grave,” she told the soldiers who nabbed her and other family members, “otherwise we’re staying.” Then she handed me a chunk of warm salo — raw fat — from her just-slaughtered pig.

 

Why would they choose to live on deadly land? Are they unaware of the risks, or crazy enough to ignore them, or both? It’s hard for us — especially Westerners with deeper connections to our laptops than any piece of soil — to understand. But these women see their lives in a decidedly different way.

 

When I asked Hanna about radiation, she replied: “Radiation doesn’t scare me. Starvation does.”

 

It’s all about context.

 

They lived through Stalin’s Holodomor — the genocide-by famine of the 1930s that wiped out millions of Ukrainians — and then the Nazis in the1940s. Some of the women were shipped to Germany as forced labor. When the Chernobyl accident happened a few decades into Soviet rule, they were simply unwilling to flee an enemy that was invisible.

 

So long as they were well beyond child bearing, self-settlers were allowed to stay “semi-illegally.” Five happy years, the settlers logic went, is better than 15 condemned to a high-rise on the outskirts of Kyiv. The residents of the Chernobyl region are forest-dwelling steppe people of Ukraine’s Polesia region and did not adapt well to urban environments. There is a simple defiance common among them: “They told us our legs would hurt, and they do,” one 80-year-old woman told me. “So what.”

 

What about their health? There are benefits of hardy living from the land — but also complications from an environment laced with radioactive contaminants, such as cesium, strontium and americium. Health studies vary. The World Health Organization predicts more than 4,000 deaths will eventually be linked to Chernobyl.

 

Greenpeace and others put that projection into the tens of thousands. All agree thyroid cancers are sky high, and that Chernobyl evacuees have suffered the trauma of relocated peoples everywhere, including anxiety, depression,

 

Radioactive contamination from the accident has been death-dealing, to be sure, but relocation trauma is another, less-examined fallout of Chernobyl. Of the old people who relocated, one Chernobyl medical technician, whose job is to give annual radiation exposure tests to zone workers said: “Quite simply, they die of anguish.”

Home is the entire cosmos of the rural babushka, and connection to the land is palpable. They told me: “If you leave you die,” “Those who left are worse off now. They are all dying of sadness,” “Motherland is Motherland. I will never leave.”

 

Curiously, what sounds like faith may actually be fact. There aren’t studies to refer to (after all, semi-legal marginalized old women living on radioactive land are hardly a civic or research priority) but surprisingly these women who returned home have, according to local officials and journalists who have kept track of them, seem to have outlived their counterparts who accepted relocation — by some estimates, up to 10 years.

 

How could this be? Certainly, their exposure at an older age put them at smaller risk. (Young animals — and I’m including humans here — are more severely affected by radiation.) But let’s consider a less tangible though equally powerful idea. Does happiness affect longevity? Is the power of motherland, so fundamental to that part of the world, palliative? Are home and community forces that can rival even radiation? I believe so. And unfailingly, so do the babushkas of the Zone.

 

Radiation or not, these women are at the end of their lives. But their existence and spirit will leave us wondering about the relative nature of risk, about transformative connections to home, and about the magnificent tonic of personal agency and self-determination. They are unexpected lessons from a nuclear tragedy.

 

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