サンノゼ州立大学に通い始めたRonさんは、学費稼ぎのアルバイトを始めるとともに、学校近くのシェアハウスに住みます。ここには様々なバックグラウンドの人が住んでいました。
多民族国家の米国には、異文化に触れる仕組みが日常生活に内包されていますね。
ここからは、Ronさん、24歳（1972年）の頃の話です。遅めの大学入学ですが、このチャレンジこそが大切なのです。
ちなみに、この年の洋楽のヒット曲No.1は、ロバータ・フラックの「愛は面影の中に（The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face）」でした。この曲を聴きながらお読みください。
I lived in the cheapest place I could find, the Roger Williams (R & W) House which was right on the campus of San Jose State University. I was owned by Grace Baptist Church. In that house I started out by sharing a room with another student on campus and gradually got my own room when one became available. The house was so old that it literally swayed in the wind. I think shortly after I moved out, the house was condemned and torn down. I meet people in that house that impacted on me very greatly.
First there was David Koppel. He was from Mountain View, just up the San Francisco Peninsula heading north. He has a Jewish guy that loved to cook. He was one of the “Head Chefs” at R & W House. He specialized obviously in all the Jewish seasonal foods. He majored in environmental health, graduated, got a job in Ukiah, CA as a sanitation inspector for the county up there. He married a Christian girl from Grace Baptist Church who later converted. They bought some land up there, and in the early years, they lived in a trailer that was parked on the property. Slowly, board-by-board, piece-by-piece, they built their own home, just the way they wanted it. After completing the house, they started producing the children.
多民族国家の米国には、異文化に触れる仕組みが日常生活に内包されていますね。
ここからは、Ronさん、24歳（1972年）の頃の話です。遅めの大学入学ですが、このチャレンジこそが大切なのです。
ちなみに、この年の洋楽のヒット曲No.1は、ロバータ・フラックの「愛は面影の中に（The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face）」でした。この曲を聴きながらお読みください。
I lived in the cheapest place I could find, the Roger Williams (R & W) House which was right on the campus of San Jose State University. I was owned by Grace Baptist Church. In that house I started out by sharing a room with another student on campus and gradually got my own room when one became available. The house was so old that it literally swayed in the wind. I think shortly after I moved out, the house was condemned and torn down. I meet people in that house that impacted on me very greatly.
First there was David Koppel. He was from Mountain View, just up the San Francisco Peninsula heading north. He has a Jewish guy that loved to cook. He was one of the “Head Chefs” at R & W House. He specialized obviously in all the Jewish seasonal foods. He majored in environmental health, graduated, got a job in Ukiah, CA as a sanitation inspector for the county up there. He married a Christian girl from Grace Baptist Church who later converted. They bought some land up there, and in the early years, they lived in a trailer that was parked on the property. Slowly, board-by-board, piece-by-piece, they built their own home, just the way they wanted it. After completing the house, they started producing the children.
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