Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (2-j) : サンノゼのシェアハウスの仲間たち（５）

R&W Houseでの学び・・・・・・

After I graduated from school, I moved out of the R & W House to a similar place with improved conditions. Peng also came along and took a room in the same place. That is when I first started to study Japanese. In spite of him being Chinese, he was a great encouragement to me in those early years struggling with the language. He was not the first.

Then, there was Ken Holden’s. He was the #1 drug user in the R & W House and majored in Art. As a matter of fact, his class twice hired me as a nude model! I sat nude for an hour and was paid extremely well.

I learned many things living in the Roger Williams House through the other occupants, but something also sticks out among all others. We all had our problems of one sort or another, and we learned to care and accept each other as we were. That is something most of us did not get in our respective homes. We in a sense became a family.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (2-i) : サンノゼのシェアハウスの仲間たち（４）

さて、サンノゼのシェアハウスの話の続き。

Another person in the R & W House was Tom Tang. He was from Hong Kong, and we were not that close, but one summer a friend of his who was studying in the UK came to visit. His name was Jimmy Chan, also originally from Hong Kong. He went away to a British boarding high school, and then continued on to university and graduate school in mathematics in London. Well, we became the best of friends and are still in contact today, over 40 years later. He now makes his home outside of Toronto, Canada.

Over the years after first meeting in San Jose, I met Jimmy in London in 1972. Then, after he graduated in London, he moved back to Hong Kong. So, I met them there around 1978. After that in around 1980, he came to Japan, and we met here. In 1997, China was to take over Hong Kong from the UK, so he moved to Canada as I mentioned. I have met him twice in Toronto. It is interesting that we have been able to meet in so many places. Speaking of Toronto, he took me to lunch in the Chinese community in Toronto to meet his friends. It was like a little Hong Kong, as so many people from Hong Kong moved there. I felt like I was in a different country and not Canada. I have had quite a global adventure with Jimmy. We share Christmas letters every year even now.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (2-ｈ) : サンノゼのシェアハウスの仲間たち（３）

またまた蒲田で定例会＆飲み会。

今回は「いつもの居酒屋」ではなく、蒲田名物「羽根つき餃子」の店で紹興酒で一杯。



＜これが羽か。私自身初めての羽根つき餃子＞


＜野菜も食べないと＞




さて、サンノゼのシェアハウスの話の続き。

Also, there was Sam Fisk. He was from UC Berkeley and extremely smart. He was in San Jose in a Master’s program in Psychology. He later dropped the program and decided to transfer to San Francisco State University and pursue a Masters in mobility and orientation for the blind. When he was studying there, he shared a room in a house in Oakland. I moved up there also a few years after graduating and share a room in that same house. The owner of the house had a business, and I did some outside selling for him. I was not particularly successful at that selling job but learned that I like outside selling. After Sam graduated, he got a job in Hawaii. I have met him many times over the years in Hawaii with my family. We have been close friends ever since.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (2-g) : サンノゼのシェアハウスの仲間たち（２）

サンノゼのシェアハウスの話の続き。

Then there was Peng. He was a Chinese national that grew up mostly on Taiwan. His father was a high officer in the Chinese army on the mainland. In Mother was an American of Chinese descent. She had a PhD in Literature and met her husband in China. When the fighting started, she took young Peng and went to Taiwan where she taught at a major university. Peng was a good 7-10 years older than us and held many degrees in electrical engineering and hydraulics from universities back east. For us though, he was our Chinese food chef. As a boy on Taiwan, as his Mother was always busy with university activities and writing, Peng spent a lot of time with maids and cooks. That was where he learned to cook. We did a lot of chopping and cooking together. Also, on Sundays, we used to drive up to China Town in San Francisco, have Cantonese breakfast, buy Chinese specialty foods and spices and drive back home. He was my first introduction to the Asian world along with people from Hong Kong and Vietnam.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。