I've gotten my one way plane ticket couple days ago: Leaving Narita, Japan on 12/4- Arriving to Ouagadougou, Burkina on 12/9.
ブルキナファソまで行くのに5日かかるわけではなく、途中アディスアベバ(エチオピア)でちょっと遊んで行くのでこういう日程に。西アフリカにもうしばらく居ようとは既に決めていたけど、日本で契約してこっちに来る手もあるし、往復か片道か、何も決めてないんだから片道だろ(片道のが安い)という事で、19でニューヨークに行った時以来の、ノープランだけど何か覚悟を決めさせられる片道チケットの購入。それも別に本当は決めてないんだけど(何も決めたくない)、こっちで暮らすんだなあという覚悟をなんだか自分の中に見たような気がする。これぞ本当の海外生活。与えられた期限付きの生活では、やっぱこの地に足が着いてなかった気がする(私は)。
Of course it's not that it needs 5 days to get to Burkina from Japan but I'm stoping at AddisAbaba, Ethiopia for some days just to have some fun. I know I want to stay in west Africa for a while but haven't decided where or how. I could apply in Japan to be dispatched here, too. Whether to buy round trip or one way, at the end I said, gotta buy one way cause it's cheaper as nothing has been decided. When I moved to NY as well it was a one way ticket I bought. Buying it made me feel like I've made my mind up, that I'm staying here. And I feel it's the real life, at least for me, I feel life with a limit of 2 years, I wasn't well grounded or very independent.
ディエブグの人々が、私が来年コーディネーターとして働く用の企画を勝手に立ち上げてたりしてて、私は近場の国の雇用形態の全然違う仕事にアプライしようとしてたりしてて、なんかそれを引き止められたりしてて、うーんどーしよーNGOでも作るか？とか思ったり、いや、ガーナの大学院でも行くか、とか思ったりしている今日この頃。
My people in Diebougou have prepared, without telling me, a new project of recycling for me to work on next year, while me thinking about applying a job in a country nearby, then now they tell me not to leave here next year because there is a work for me to do;)) then that whole thing could make me think about making a NGO here, but the next moment I'm thinking about doing a master in Ghana. Wmm.
どーしよーかなあ。
ここでみんなとこの街をブルキナファソ初のゴミのリサイクルモデル都市にするのも(まあリサイクルとか内容はほんとはあんま興味ないけど)面白いかもなあという気に今日はなっている。
Maybe it's interesting enough to stay here and make Diebougou to be the first city in Burkina where is known for recycling, though the subject itself doesn't really attract me (but that's what I've been doing the past two years;)) I don't know what's going to be happening, but a thing for sure is that my life is in the good flow.
