英語リスニング - 本文
Eli: At the momentI'm living in Japan and life here is pretty different to anything I'vereally experienced before. I think just because the daily routine isso different. In England, in England, basically I was really lazy. I'dprobably get up at you know 8:30 in the morning. Leave ten minutes later,cause I always brush my teeth at work, eat breakfast at work, get towork for 9 o'clock, come home from work at 5:30, probably lie on thesofa, watch the Simpson's, cook some food, go to bed, and that was thesort of daily routine in England, a very lazy one. I mean, even if Ineeded to get to the supermarket which was probably what, like 3-400meters away, I'd get on my scooter to do it. Walking anywhere wouldbe just a massive hassle and so it was a bit of a shock when I got toJapan and all that changed, I mean, the one thing you have to do a lotof in Tokyo is walk. You have to walk everywhere. I mean the train systemsare absolutely amazing but you need to walk to get to the train. Youneed to walk between the trains and like when I first arrived, I walkedmy feet into the ground. After a week they were aching so badly aftertwo weeks. They were just I don't know, it took me at least a monthto like wear my feet in. They're still, still like now, after long walks,but it's just apart from the walking, you just, it's just a businessof life here, I mean cause no one actually lives in Tokyo cause it'sso expensive.
We all live out sortof in the suburbs in what we call bed towns, and so actually gettinginto school every morning, I'm studying Japanese here, I have to getup pretty early just to get onto the train, to then travel, commute,an hour in, to get to school on time, which of course I never do. I'mmeant to be at school at about nine, which would mean, sort of leavingmy house at about 8, getting up at 7. I know this is not shocking fora lot of people, but after the routine I had, it's a pretty shockingexperience for me, especially the hour of commuting on the train whereyou're kept in like sardines, you just would never have in sort of Londonand London underground in England where I'm from. On the London Undergroundif the trains full people wait for the next train. Here if the trainis full, people just push and push until they get on so you can endup being stood, never get to sit down, just standing for an hour, likesquashed up, like sardines, so by the time you get to school you'retotally tired and then there's a school until lunch time and after lunchI always say I'm going to come back and study but I never do I alwayscome back and fall fast asleep.