It was a not so chilly morning in the month of February in Trivandrum (Kerala), in the TCS Hostel (People Park) (Year-2008), when we the trainees were getting ready to attend the classes,
When we saw the display board displaying the name of our Foreign Language Teacher’s Name as Ms.Fumie Kobayashi, we were excited to meet some foreigner F2F first time in life and have a talk with those people. When we saw her the first time we judged her age wrong (I swear).We thought her to be a lady in late 30’s or early 40’s but she was a 60 year old lady or sorry I should use 60 years young, because the energy level and enthusiasm that she had in her was more than the people in their early or mid 20’s.
When I saw that lady for the first time, I never had the idea, that she will become one of the best women I ever met in my Life.
Till date I don’t have words to describe that lady completely. The level of energy, enthusiasm, joy, commitment that she had in her 60th year is much more inspirational to young people like us than anything else. Apart from that the love and respect that she showed for both the cultures (Indian and Japanese), was also something to be really admired.
We started the journey with that lady which lasted for about a month and the entire period was full of lost of fun. learning and building relationship. We came to know about another country’s culture for the first time in our life and really enjoyed becoming a part of Japanese culture for a short duration.
Everyday she was almost the first to reach the training room before we trainees could gather. She was absolutely punctual about her time (which the Japanese are known for throughout the globe) and directly or indirectly taught us also the lesson of punctuality despite of each of us knowing the same since childhood but again visualizing the same in front of our eyes taught us to respect ours as well as others time also in life.
Learning another language or culture is never easy for most of us but it was the magic of that lady which made us so familiar with her culture and language that we felt ourselves to be a part of her life and her country. For about a month she taught us the language and still the essence is still their. Sooner we used to wait eagerly for Japanese class which used to raise our enthusiasm and freshness level in a hectic and pressurized training environment to a lot. It was the ease that she made us feel during the period which made us more comfortable with her and our respect towards her and her country also raised a lot.
Every day when we used to meet that lady our minds used to research again the energy and enthusiasm she holds. She turned 60 on the last day of our training and that was the last day of her long career and we were among her last batch students. The day she got relieved from her career, we were not able to meet her but the last message that we all left for her as a memory had some common line as “Sensei Kirei Desu”(Japanese Teacher is beautiful)
It was the art and beauty of that lady which created her respectable image in our memory as everlasting and non-fading.
I still miss those ILP days (Training days) and hope my friends too. I wish a lot of good health and happiness to that lady who hold now a special position in my life and may God bless her with long life and she continue to inspire a lot people around the globe about her culture and her country’s tradition as an ambassador and enjoy a lot with her family also.
I am really proud of such true ambassador of their culture and country and hope I will also help to maintain my values as long as I am alive.
Mohit Kumar Jain
15-Feb-2010
When we saw the display board displaying the name of our Foreign Language Teacher’s Name as Ms.Fumie Kobayashi, we were excited to meet some foreigner F2F first time in life and have a talk with those people. When we saw her the first time we judged her age wrong (I swear).We thought her to be a lady in late 30’s or early 40’s but she was a 60 year old lady or sorry I should use 60 years young, because the energy level and enthusiasm that she had in her was more than the people in their early or mid 20’s.
When I saw that lady for the first time, I never had the idea, that she will become one of the best women I ever met in my Life.
Till date I don’t have words to describe that lady completely. The level of energy, enthusiasm, joy, commitment that she had in her 60th year is much more inspirational to young people like us than anything else. Apart from that the love and respect that she showed for both the cultures (Indian and Japanese), was also something to be really admired.
We started the journey with that lady which lasted for about a month and the entire period was full of lost of fun. learning and building relationship. We came to know about another country’s culture for the first time in our life and really enjoyed becoming a part of Japanese culture for a short duration.
Everyday she was almost the first to reach the training room before we trainees could gather. She was absolutely punctual about her time (which the Japanese are known for throughout the globe) and directly or indirectly taught us also the lesson of punctuality despite of each of us knowing the same since childhood but again visualizing the same in front of our eyes taught us to respect ours as well as others time also in life.
Learning another language or culture is never easy for most of us but it was the magic of that lady which made us so familiar with her culture and language that we felt ourselves to be a part of her life and her country. For about a month she taught us the language and still the essence is still their. Sooner we used to wait eagerly for Japanese class which used to raise our enthusiasm and freshness level in a hectic and pressurized training environment to a lot. It was the ease that she made us feel during the period which made us more comfortable with her and our respect towards her and her country also raised a lot.
Every day when we used to meet that lady our minds used to research again the energy and enthusiasm she holds. She turned 60 on the last day of our training and that was the last day of her long career and we were among her last batch students. The day she got relieved from her career, we were not able to meet her but the last message that we all left for her as a memory had some common line as “Sensei Kirei Desu”(Japanese Teacher is beautiful)
It was the art and beauty of that lady which created her respectable image in our memory as everlasting and non-fading.
I still miss those ILP days (Training days) and hope my friends too. I wish a lot of good health and happiness to that lady who hold now a special position in my life and may God bless her with long life and she continue to inspire a lot people around the globe about her culture and her country’s tradition as an ambassador and enjoy a lot with her family also.
I am really proud of such true ambassador of their culture and country and hope I will also help to maintain my values as long as I am alive.
Mohit Kumar Jain
15-Feb-2010
1 comments:
she was my favourite... when i was in ilp.....can't forget the songs she taught us
1. kaeru no uta ga kikoyete kuruyo gero gero gero gero ga.ga.ga
2. shiawase nara teo tatako,shiawase nara teo tatako... shiyavasenara teya dodishme soyo koraminnadeva teya tattako...
3. Aruhi...aruhi... kumasanni deatta....
etc
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