こんにちは！
Hellos and welcome, dear readers!
鋭意ハロウィンのお歌練習中のタカペンです！
Managed to finish translating and am now in the process of practicing the Halloween song I plan to be uploading hopefully by Halloween!
お外を見て、もう大分葉っぱが
紅くなってきたなぁ、写真でも
撮ってまたあげようかしら
I was looking out the window and noticing how bright red the leaves were turning on the trees outside. So I wondered if maybe I'd take some pics and upload or not.
どうしようかしら
Should I or shouldn't I?
赤と言えばそう言えば・・・
Speaking of red, I remember...
と思いついたことを書いてみようかと
So instead of about leaves turning colors, I thought of something else that I wanted to mention.
最近当たり前のようにキャンヴァの
素材の「黄色い」太陽を
可愛いな～と思って使ってました
So I've been using Canva's pictures of the yellow sun because I thought they were pretty cute.
でもふと思い出したんですよ
Then it occurred to me...
日本の太陽って赤くない？
The sun in Japan is red.
そうなんですよ
日本の太陽って、今はわからないですが
私が子供の頃って赤色で太陽を描いてました
Right. I don't know if kids still use red, but when I was little, in Japan, we used to color the sun red.
そもそも日本の国旗の日の丸も
太陽が赤いから赤いわけで
If you look at the flag of Japan, the red circle signifies the sun.
でも小学生のとき渡米して、
お絵描きをしていたら
ふと違和感を覚えるんですよ
But when I first came to the U.S., and when I looked around when it was drawing time,
あれ、
I was like wait
まわりの子たち
太陽を黄色く塗ってる！？
Everyone's coloring their sun yellow, not red!!
え！？
HUH?
私赤く塗ってるのに・・・
And here I am, coloring my sun red...
と、何やら子供心に
他の子たちと全く違うことを
していることに恥ずかしさを覚えて
As a child, I guess I must have felt a little embarrassed that I was doing something differently from everybody else.
気付いてからは太陽を
黄色く塗り始めたんですけどね
So I started coloring my sun yellow as well.
子供の頃に渡米して受けた
数多い小さなカルチャーショックの
うちの一つでした、太陽の色は（笑）
Just one piece of culture shock out of the many that I had when first came over to the U.S. :)
大人になって振り返ると
科学的な理由は説明できませんが
日本の方が太陽が赤みを
帯びてるんですよね
Now that I'm grown up, I know there are scientifc reasons for the sun to look redder in Japan (something with the atmosphere).
アメリカの太陽は白に近いです
Whereas the sun in the U.S. looks much whiter.
夕方でこそ赤みを帯びますが
日本のような大きな赤い太陽
ではなくて、ちっちゃな赤紫？
っぽい太陽です
日によってはオレンジなんですけどね
During dusk, the sun does look a bit purplish red, but not the huge bright red ball that it is in Japan. Even though sometimes the sunset in the U.S. does come a bit close to size and color in Japan. Very rarely though.
なので描かれる太陽の色が
違うことにちゃんと理由が
あるのですが
当時は困惑しかなかったです（笑）
So anyhow, I know there are reasons for the sun to appear differently in the two countries, but at the time, I just felt confused and embarassed. lol
そんなちっちゃな
カルチャーショックですが
今でもそのショックを受けた
と言う記憶があるぐらいには
ショックだったんだな～と
思います
It was a very tiny culture shock, but the fact that I still remember that slight shock to this day, I guess, is telling of how actually shocked I felt by the difference.
他にもたくさんありますが、
今日はとりあえず、太陽の色だけで
There are many other culture shocks I felt, but for today, let me wrap it up with just the difference of colors with the sun.
それでは次こそは動画をあげたときに・・・！ ではではっ！
Thank you for reading this far. Hope to be able to write about the Halloween video in my next blog! Til then! Taka out!
