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Writingの授業の課題で自分と両親を比較してEssayを書けという課題があった．これだけ書くのに約２時間要した．英語プログラムも残り１週間になったのに，英語力向上したのか不安になってしまう．．．暇な人は読んでみて下さい．

The person who deeply influences me must be my father. I used to oppose everything that our parents advised me in my high school days. It is what is called the rebellious stage. I couldn’t take my father’s way of thinking to my heart especially. However, when I started living alone to go to the university, the change of living let me accept his mind. I’d like to write this essay and regard it as a proper opportunity to identify the relation between my father and I.

I can find many similarities about our physicality. The most outstanding feature must be our voice. Our voices are well known for low and resonant to my relatives. From time to time, someone who phones to our family hesitates to recognize who answers to him because our voices sound almost same. Naturally, our builds also are totally alike. Above all, we have longer arms than the average of most Japanese’s arms and sloping shoulders. These features make it difficult to find the clothes, which fit us. I think it is natural and inevitable because we are a parent and a child, but I can strangely find some similarities about personality.

Second, both my father and I seem to have some similar characters. My friends often say me that I am temperamental, selfish and obstinate. I don’t know what he is said by his friends, but I think he must evidently be the same as me. Of course, he also has a good personality such as gentle, tolerant to my family, and quiet. I hope to be like him in future. On the other hand, some our senses of value are a little different. In particular, the sense about a family is so different that we had an argument about each role among a couple. He thought that men should work outside and women should do only housework. I couldn’t agree with this opinion because it was so conservative. Thus, our personalities are quite similar, while ways of thinking and senses of value are a little different among us. However, now, I can’t help feeling that my thinking has been becoming close to him because graduating from my school days to working means being on the same stage as my father.

The school days are pretty different. My father and I studied at the same elementary school near my house. He used to play a baseball so well at this school that he was spotted and recruited by a private junior high school. He went to that junior high school and had been absorbed in a baseball until he stopped it at a high school because of a hurt. While, I used to be moderate in not only sports ability but also studying through elementary, junior high, and high school. I guess that I couldn’t stand out as much as him in these schools. What’s more, the lives of university are more different than of these schools. He had to unfortunately leave the university to take over the president of our family company because his father, who is also my grandfather, suddenly died. He has been working hard as the president for almost 40 years since that incident. While, I could have successfully graduated from the university and the graduate school by grace of the support of my parents. In addition, they let us study abroad before working. Now, I’m thanking them sincerely. Thus, our school days are quite different. I assume that the difference would affect our lives in present and future.

In short, there are a lot of similarities and differences of physicality, personality, and background between my father and I. Then, the biggest difference between us is coming, which is the working style. This means that I will work as an employee, but he’s never work as an employee. I know it will have to make bigger difference between father and I, but I’m looking forward to talk about this difference with drinking someday.