【英語雑記】家の前に出現したイグルー　Season2

これは前回の、家の前にカマクラを作って楽しんだよ、という記事の続きのお話しです。なぜそんなものを作ったのか、カマクラを作るとどういう気分になるのか・・・？もしよければ先にこちらをお読みください！

ちなみにこのカマクラの写真を仕事場で先輩に見せて話してたんですが、その時にこんな会話がありまして・・・

先輩「すごいねこれ。でもさ、これってどこに作ったの？」
私「家の前です。除雪の雪が積み上げられてるとこ」
先輩「ってことはさ、排雪で持っていかれちゃうんじゃない？」
私「そうなんですよ、たぶんいつかは持っていかれちゃいますね」

・・・っていう不吉な会話をした、まさに次の日の朝に、事件はやってきました。

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After I built the igloo, a private snow cave in front of my house, me and my boy had a fun time. Having a igloo outside of the house is giving us such a special feeling which I never felt. It was the achivement of labor, and also a portal to our illusion. For example, I drunk a cup of coffee several time inside the igloo. It's just a cup of coffee, but it was quite an new experience. Its surface of the rock-hard snow wall has a weird texture which we never feel in our usual life. Since I built it, I kind of have been felt to be fulfilled. It was like finding a great song fron the car radio.

Then it suddenly came and broke our illusion all at once. A snow-plow. Usually, it's a long waited winter hero for all of people in the snow country. The special car and truck remove the snow accumulated beside the road, so we drive or walk so smoothly. So that is basically a good news. But this time, especially for my kid, it became a bad news, almost a disastrous news. On Saturday morning, my son got outside to remove the snow out of the igloo. That became his regular task since I built it. But after a minutes, he back inside the house, weeping. "Hey, igloo, it's gone. Nothing there! Why?..." He was really upset. I went outside and found what happened. Then I exlain to him what's happened. It's a snow plow took the removed snow on the sideroad. We built the igloo beside the side road, so they took it away. The structure is ruined, but we still have good memory. We can built it next winter. So don't get depressed... Well, it was no use at all. He lied face down on the snowed earth and kept to sobbing. I tried to get him up, but he didn't try to move an inch. Of course I expected to find him sad if the igloo had been took away or melt to shrink, the impact was what more than I expected. He squeezed out his word saying "I wanted to drink and eat in the igloo again..." Hmm. There, I made my mind. What else I could do?

I told him we gonna build a brand new igloo right now. Fortunately, a heavy snow had fell in the last night. We lost the ceiling and the part of wall, but still had the half of wall and the entrance staircase. This is the season two. The igloo season two. Do you know what the season two mean? it continues. Never ends. The story goes on. So there's no need to cry because we have still things to work. It would be fun to repair, rebuild the broken igloo to new one. We can make it more than nicer. OK? ...Then he finally came back. He asked me "Can we eat snack in the new igloo again?" Of course, I replied.

It took a half of day to recreate a new igloo. The new one lost its ceiling, but the wall has been rebuilt. And it has second floor up on the side wall. It was like the snow forts. He seemed liked its structure. As the celebration, we made a bonfire in front of new no-ceiling igloo. A smell of burning wood, a sound of falling snow melt in the fire, the orange colored reflection on the snow wall...they are another great textures of nature which vibrated my primitive feeling. Surprisingly, before I noticed, my son was relaxing, going to sleep sitting the folding chair beside the bonfire. I had to carry him to inside of house. Anyway, season two had been started, his illusion seemed to be mended. So I was relieved.

All things that have shape will break someday. I bet he learned it. Then we also understood that there's always the season two if we want. Now, it came to March. The snow will shrink little by little. This igloo season two will also melt in some time. And we will find season three in next winter.

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この事件の前に、カマクラはいつか溶けちゃうし、排雪で持ってかれちゃうかもしれないよ、という話はしていて、その時は「いいよ、また冬がきたら作ればいいじゃん」なんてことを言ってたんですが、本人が思っていた以上の喪失感だったようです。なんとかシーズン2に繋がってよかった・・・。

それにしてもこのカマクラ作り、初めてでしたが、本当に楽しかった！雪国に住んでる人には冬のアクティビティとして、おすすめします。どこにも行かなくても、家の庭でも、非日常空間を体験できます。そして、何かを作り上げる、形にするという行為そのものに、心の中のトゲトゲを丸くしてくれるような効用がありました。子供と一緒に作っても楽しいですが、大人同士で集まって作っても楽しめると思います。作り終わった後は、中でパーティーもできますし！