アラタが出発して10日ほどたつが、こちらは先週の急な再ロックダウンで気が散っていてそれどこれでなかったが、日本にいるアラタは14日間の自己隔離真っただ中な上、Wifiもなく、軟禁状態。
その上経験したことのない猛暑、新しい学校への期待と不安で、ホームシックになったようだ。
一昨日は4時ぐらいまで全然寝れなかったらしい。昨日も夜中の3時ごろから1時間、ほぼ泣きながら電話してきてた。どうやらトイレに10分おきに行きたくなるのに、出ない。それが嫌なんだと。
実家の２階は暑すぎるから下の洋間に布団引いて、冷房が直接あたるのがダメなのかもしれないと布団の位置をずらしたら寝られたと今朝報告があった。オリバーはペナンでもベッドの上に冷房の風が当たるようにわざわざ調整して、かけたまま寝ていたが、アラタは消してたっけな。お腹によくなかったのかもしれない。
どちらにしろ、家族がそばにいないのが嫌だと本音を漏らしていた。かわいそうだ。来週から学校が始まればそれどころではなくなるかもしれないのだが。
It's been nearly 10 days since Arata left. Another lockdown has been imposed in Auckland, and the rest of NZ has been level 2 since. I was a bit preoccupied by the news updates everyday and didn't have much time to feel missing of Arata. Of course, for him, he is still in the middle of 14-day self-isolation. Not proper wifi at my parents. It must be like a house arrest.
On top of that, it's dangerously hot in Japan. Arata hasn't experienced that level of hotness. He must feel anxious about his new school too. He has begun to feel homesick.
Since it is too hot upstairs, he's started to sleep in the lounge downstairs. But apparently he couldn't sleep till 4 AM the day before yesterday and he kept going back to the toilet as he felt he wanted to pee. (But nothing came out.)
He rang me sobbing at about 3 AM, complaining he hated that he felt he wanted to go to toilet often, but he couldn't control it. (This has been improved since Arata moved away the bed from the spot air-conditioning directly blows on. Unlike Takara, who was always sleeping under the air-conditioning all night in Penang, Arata didn't need colder temperature to comfortably sleep.)
Anyway, Arata complained he doesn't like not having his family around. Once school starts next week, he will become busier and not have time to think about it much..... Poor Arata. I wanted to be with him....
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