The mayor of Nankoku is going around to all the junior high schools this week for a DREAM TALK.
That’s how it’s always looks when it’s spelled out in English on the flyers…either that or in katakana, ドリームトック, pronounced ‘doriimu tokku’. It’s a community service initiative. The local government gets ideas and suggestions from local students about how to improve their town, and promises to consider those ideas when it comes time to spend the city’s money. The schools have had a few weeks now to think of topics for this meeting. In conversation with my super today, I asked about the community improvement ideas our students had come up with to discuss with the mayor.

“They only have one so far,” she said. (The meeting is tomorrow.) “Do you know about AED?”

AED, as it turns out, stands for Automated External Defibrillator. My kids want the city to buy one for every school, in case a student overdoes it during Sports Day and has a cardiac episode. I keep going back and forth between laughter and profound disturbance at the idea that this is the only issue they’ve thought of. Makes you wonder if something happened.

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