Nushima Middle School
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After School
Chiko Aoishi and Shogo Matsumoto

 
  Enjoying a chat with her dad and brother as they work on their fishing gear.

Chiko Aoishi's grandfather, father, and 19-year-old brother Masahide, are all fishermen. Chiko, a third-year student, comes home from school at about the same time as her father and Masahide get back from fishing. The two men diligently patch up the fishing net. Chiko goes out to the pier to gaze at her father and brother working and then comes home to watch videos of her favorite television drama Kinpachi sensei, a drama set in a school. Chiko has three brothers and one sister, and kids from the neighborhood are always coming and going, so the Aoishi home is quite lively.

Being a third-year student, though, Chiko is feeling the pressure of studying for exams to enter high school. Chiko likes spending every day with her family and does not feel like leaving the island in the future. She says, "While boys can get a job in the fishing industry after finishing middle school, girls can't, so my parents tell me that I have to go to high school. But my family is here, and I don't want to leave the island. After I graduate from high school, I might live here and commute to work on Awajishima."


 

Chiko Aoishi is one of five brothers and sisters. Chiko is popular with the young kids of the neighborhood.
 

 
  Shogo Matsumoto's family consists of four people. The family business is the only electric appliance shop on Nushima.
 
   

Shogo Matsumoto is also a third-year student and one of Chiko's classmates. His family runs an electric appliance store on Nushima, selling electric appliances and doing electric installations and repairs. Because it is the only store doing electrical repairs, Shogo and his parents rarely leave the island in case something breaks down, and they spend most days together.

Shogo's older brother Hiroki is a third-year (twelfth grade) high-school student. He goes to school on Awajishima and takes a boat to get there every day. In the two brothers' room on the second floor of their family's house, there are two desks. Shogo plans to go to high school next spring, but he laughs as he says, "I haven't studied much for the entrance examinations. I've been pretending that it'll be easy. I love soccer, and I want to play it more, so I want to go to high school on Awajishima." Shogo is a member of Hospeeds, a soccer team made up of the soccer fans on Nushima. The team practices two evenings a week. With soccer and soft tennis, Shogo is busy with sports every day.

 
Shogo is excited at the prospect of going to high school. There he'll be able to play the game he loves--soccer.  






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