現地時間2024年8月7日（水）、午前9時に起きた。午前10時半ごろに家を出て語学学校へ向かった。
授業でトラブルがあった。台湾出身のクラスメイトと一緒にプレゼンテーションをする予定だったのに、その生徒が無断で休んだのだ。私たちの発表は延期になった。
パートナーがなぜ休んだのか、理解に苦しむ。昨日まで休まず授業に来ていたし、発表に向けた準備の段階では、積極的に意見を出し、議論を引っ張っていた。
発表当日にパートナーが欠席するのは、私にとって今回が2度目。約2週間前には、韓国出身のクラスメイトが無断欠席した。私は以前、アジア人は責任感が強いと思っていたが、この2つの経験によってその先入観は崩れた。
On Wednesday, August 7th, 2024, I got up at 9:00 a.m. PST and left my house around 10:30 a.m. to go to my language school.
I was troubled by a classmate from Taiwan who was supposed to give a presentation with me during class today. She was absent from the class without contacting me or the teacher. As a result, our presentation was postponed.
It is hard to come up with a reason why she didn’t come today, as there had been no indication that she would be absent from the presentation. Until yesterday, she had been leading the discussion for the presentation even more than I was.
About two weeks ago, I was in a similar situation when a classmate from Korea, who was supposed to give a presentation with me, was absent on the day we were scheduled to present. Before these two experiences, I thought that Asian people tended to have a strong sense of responsibility, but these experiences proved that my assumption was wrong.