This is 4th speech. "My Dream"
Though I say it myself, I think I did quite well.
A. Opening
Do you have a dream? Yes, I have them also.
Why would I ask you about your dream?
My belief is that a dream only comes true when there is a strong will behind it.
I would like to share a story about my friend "Matsuda-san" who is a mountaineer,
he had a powerful vibrant dream to climb Mt. Everest.
However, he was faced with a tough problem on Chinese mountain in 1992.
Following an alpine accident resulted in him losing his legs below the knee and losing all his fingers.
Did that stop him?
No, he pushes on and never abandons his plan to climb to the top of the world's highest mountain.
Then he started, he climbed a lesser mountain successfully in 1994.
Remember he is doing this with artificial legs.
He climbed a lot of mountain since then.
Finally he was ready to tackle Mt. Everest in 1995.
B. Body
Me, I do not have such a magnificent dream.
My dream - it was to climb mountains, starting with the Alps in Japan.
I never guessed it would actually come true.
I thought it was far from Hiroshima and dangerous place.
However, I found myself wanting to climb it more and more.
Then I met Matsuda-san, the one I have mentioned.
He was very encouraging and in sharing I felt his passion, he was buzzing with excitement for me.
He has big positive energy and a strong forward-looking approach that he backs up with effort.
Now I am feeling more confident and positive.
I screamed within my mind ” Yes, we can. Sorry Barack Obama. Yes, I can, can’t I?
I think about my situation compared to him. Anything is possible”.
Then I committed myself to making my dream come true.
I realise that nothing is achieved without effort.
It was time to take the first big step toward my dream.
I started with TN-san and Sakuragi-san, who are my mountain buddies, to gain a great level of skills and knowledge by climbing some mountains in western Japan area.
One of the amazing, fantastic experiences was climbing Mt. Turugi last June.
It took us 9 hours ad we came near to an alpine accident.
It rained and our map got wet and was dissolving in to nothing.
That was the cause of our losing one valuable hour of time.
And we did not take a rest and ate only small junk-food as a calorie mate during that time. My mind was not work properly as the climb continued.
Finally, the weather forecast that day said 'cloudy with occasional showers'.
We chose to walk. But it was rain all day.
I leaned three valuable lessons:
1.It is necessary to rest and take nutritious foods once every hour.
2.It is important to have a map and look after it.
3.Lastly consider the weather. On a mountain this is variable
When it rains everything stops, the weather becomes bad.
C. Conclusion
Now, finally, we made our debut on the Japan Alps between October 8 -11- 2009.
How I had waited for that moment.
It is like experiencing another world.
It just doesn't seem to be in Japan.
The scenery is the amazing and spectacular.
The altitude was 3,190m that was my first experience of altitude.
I had never seen any of it before..
My first dream had been achieved.
I believe with all my heart that ‘dreams really do come true’.
My next dream is to climb the European Alps.
Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Grandes jorasses and Eiger
These are the ones I want to see, to climb, to conquer.
To do this I need to climb the Japanese Alps more and more to build up my experiences and skills.
Finally, I am urging you to try hard to achieve your dreams, you will have a happy life.
TM
Though I say it myself, I think I did quite well.
A. Opening
Do you have a dream? Yes, I have them also.
Why would I ask you about your dream?
My belief is that a dream only comes true when there is a strong will behind it.
I would like to share a story about my friend "Matsuda-san" who is a mountaineer,
he had a powerful vibrant dream to climb Mt. Everest.
However, he was faced with a tough problem on Chinese mountain in 1992.
Following an alpine accident resulted in him losing his legs below the knee and losing all his fingers.
Did that stop him?
No, he pushes on and never abandons his plan to climb to the top of the world's highest mountain.
Then he started, he climbed a lesser mountain successfully in 1994.
Remember he is doing this with artificial legs.
He climbed a lot of mountain since then.
Finally he was ready to tackle Mt. Everest in 1995.
B. Body
Me, I do not have such a magnificent dream.
My dream - it was to climb mountains, starting with the Alps in Japan.
I never guessed it would actually come true.
I thought it was far from Hiroshima and dangerous place.
However, I found myself wanting to climb it more and more.
Then I met Matsuda-san, the one I have mentioned.
He was very encouraging and in sharing I felt his passion, he was buzzing with excitement for me.
He has big positive energy and a strong forward-looking approach that he backs up with effort.
Now I am feeling more confident and positive.
I screamed within my mind ” Yes, we can. Sorry Barack Obama. Yes, I can, can’t I?
I think about my situation compared to him. Anything is possible”.
Then I committed myself to making my dream come true.
I realise that nothing is achieved without effort.
It was time to take the first big step toward my dream.
I started with TN-san and Sakuragi-san, who are my mountain buddies, to gain a great level of skills and knowledge by climbing some mountains in western Japan area.
One of the amazing, fantastic experiences was climbing Mt. Turugi last June.
It took us 9 hours ad we came near to an alpine accident.
It rained and our map got wet and was dissolving in to nothing.
That was the cause of our losing one valuable hour of time.
And we did not take a rest and ate only small junk-food as a calorie mate during that time. My mind was not work properly as the climb continued.
Finally, the weather forecast that day said 'cloudy with occasional showers'.
We chose to walk. But it was rain all day.
I leaned three valuable lessons:
1.It is necessary to rest and take nutritious foods once every hour.
2.It is important to have a map and look after it.
3.Lastly consider the weather. On a mountain this is variable
When it rains everything stops, the weather becomes bad.
C. Conclusion
Now, finally, we made our debut on the Japan Alps between October 8 -11- 2009.
How I had waited for that moment.
It is like experiencing another world.
It just doesn't seem to be in Japan.
The scenery is the amazing and spectacular.
The altitude was 3,190m that was my first experience of altitude.
I had never seen any of it before..
My first dream had been achieved.
I believe with all my heart that ‘dreams really do come true’.
My next dream is to climb the European Alps.
Mont Blanc, Matterhorn, Grandes jorasses and Eiger
These are the ones I want to see, to climb, to conquer.
To do this I need to climb the Japanese Alps more and more to build up my experiences and skills.
Finally, I am urging you to try hard to achieve your dreams, you will have a happy life.
TM
