地球兄弟　よしきの日々

スピーチコンテスト本番で発表した原稿です。 ぜひ最後まで読んでみてください！！ 一番下に、親友カルナの子供の写真もあります。   I lived in Nepalbefore I came back to Japan last March..   I am going to tell you about my best Nepali friend, who I met in a small village in Himalaya during my stay there. His name is Karna. When we met for the first time in his village, we were both 15 years old. His family was very poor, but he was very active and he supported me a lot. We spent 4 whole days, eating together, farming together, and sleeping in the same house every day. Let me tell you something which will surprise you. Karna was already married, and his 14 -year-old wife was pregnant.   This is one of the realities of poor people in Nepal.     The village is mostly cold all year round, so I was wearing a warm jacket all the time, but for some reason, Karna was only wearing a T-shirt and short pants. I thought   he was feeling cold so I asked him “Aren’t you feeling cold?” He replied, “Yes, It’s very cold”.   So I told him t