Hirate Yurina I hate class and studying
A letter came from a listener: "Im a high school girl from Tokyo. We recently had a test at school. I ended up with a mark of 19 (Im crying)...and of course a make-up test. What can I do to be able to study? If you know, please tell me."
Hirate: To be frank, Im terrible at studying, too. (laughs)
Its really no good (laughs). Im also worrying what I should do (laughs).
But you wrote that you got 19 on the test. I think thats totally okay.
Ive recently been thinking how much fun school is. Talking with everyone and so on.
But I really hate studying in class. I just hate it. What I hate most is those print-outs you get passed, and the test-papers to fill in that we got right from the start.
The worst thing is that from the beginning, I was put in the very front seat. I hate it so much that I wrote the line from the beginning of Getsuyoubi no Asa, Sukaato wo Kirareta: "Why do I have to go to school?" (laughs)
I really deeply hate it. After that theres the line: "A teacher with a forced smile talks about fake love." I wrote that, too.
I really dont know why my seat has to be there. Right when I entered the school, the teacher put me in the middle of the front row, right up against the teachers desk. Right in the middle.
I wondered why I always had to be right in the middle, and so on. I just hate studying. Maybe my marks are so bad because its a private school.
But my attitude isnt that good, either. Ive said some pretty bad things (laughs). Really.... But I think its okay. Being eccentric is good, I think.
In the answer column on a print-out, I wrote straight out: "I think this is wrong. This doesnt get across what you want to get across to the students." I dont know what the teacher thought when they read that (laughs). But I think its good to be eccentric.
So then, heres Keyakizaka46, "Eccentric".... (song plays)
Um, high-school girl from Tokyo, lets both do our best to study! As for studying, I think...Japanese is important and I will work hard at that.
And Ill do my best to improve my attitude toward studying. We all have difficulties in our lives. Lets do our best!
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Techi seems to be just the student every teacher fears. Not able to do the work, not willing to try, and cheeky about it all. I hope she does learn to do enough to get by.
I understand why they want to keep such a difficult student up where the teacher can keep an eye on her, but I wonder if giving her a little anonymity might be a good thing: putting her back among the other students. Maybe she would settle down. And maybe not.
Japanese commenters put her down with words like "rebellious period" and "chuunibyou" (middle-school sophomore disease).
But I must admit to a sneaking admiration of how Techi is living her songs. Lots of commenters loved it, too -- while others made fun of her for believing the songs and talked about her getting over it and becoming an adult. I guess thats the point of the songs: adults are false and kids act freely and honestly. It may be necessary to become more like a responsible adult, but how much freedom and joy do you lose when you do that? Akimoto-sensei?
Heres the radio show. And heres a news post with the transcript of this part of it.
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