Yuko Haruna（在线收听）

　　BBC Learning EnglishPeople and PlacesYuko HarunaSIGWilliam: Hello and welcome to People and Places, theprogramme from BBC LearningEnglish that searches the world for interesting people andinteresting stories.
　　TAGWilliam: Today we’re going to be hearing from YukoHaruna from Japan, who I spoketo on the telephone. I’ll let Yuko introduce herself… seeif you can hear what it is that she does…Yuko: My name is Yuko Haruna, I’m from Japan. And… I wantto work for traffic education or traffic safety. I… I was amember of traffic safety association, but I think I need moreknowledge… I quit… I quit the job last year and now I’mstudying for an exam. I want to go to university again.
　　William: Yuko said that she’s studying for an exambecause she wants to go to university again. Yuko was amember of a traffic safety association, or we might say aroad safety association - an organisation that campaigns toreduce the number of car accidents.
　　Why did Yuko become involved in road safety?
　　Yuko: To… to tell the truth, I… I myself was hit by a carwhen I was eighteen years old. And when I was twenty yearsold, one of my friends passed away because of a car accident.
　　I couldn’t believe… I still can’t believe! He was, he wasnot twenty, he was nineteen, nineteen years old. It changed mylife… and at that time I decided I want to work for trafficsafety…William: Yuko said that she was hit by a car herselfwhen she was eighteen, and then when she was twenty, one ofher friends ‘passed away’ because of a car accident. Whatshe means by ‘passed away’ is that her friend died. Deathis very difficult to talk about, so we sometimes use thisexpression, passed away, instead of saying that a person hasdied.
　　Yuko’s friend was only nineteen years old when he passedaway. She said that she still can’t believe it.
　　Yuko: It changed my life… and at that time I decided Iwant to work for traffic safety…William: She said her friend’s passing away changedher life… so, it affected the rest of her life.
　　This explains how she came to work for a road safetyassociation, trying to educate people in the importance ofroad safety. In the five years that she was working there,Yuko came to believe that there was one aspect of road safetythat was especially important:
　　Yuko: One the most important things is how to reduce thesadness that lots of people who lost their loving child orfriends and they… they’re still suffering from sadness. It’s… it’s… it's difficult, even for me to say how I feltor how sad I was, because… um… I think there was few peoplewho could understand how I really felt…William: Yuko said that one of the most importantthings is reducing the sadness of those people who have‘lost’ a family member or friend.
　　If someone close to you dies, we often say that you have‘lost’ them. And, we call the sadness that you feel whenyou lose someone ‘grief’. There’s also a verb form: ‘togrieve’ which we use with the words ‘for’ and ‘over’.
　　After someone passes away, friends and family grieve forthem, or we can say, they grieve over their friend’s death.
　　Now Yuko wants to learn how to help other people. She’swriting a children’s book about a moon who loses his littlesister. And, she’s going back to university – to studycounselling for grieving parents and friends.
　　Yuko: And I was looking for what… what to study… I mean,what kind of skill I need… and I began to study kind ofcounselling, stress management, how to help people.
　　William: Yuko’s story shows how it’s possible toturn tragedy and grief into something positive, that canreally help other people.
　　That’s all for this week, but there’ll be another person,from another place, in next week’s People and Places.
　　Goodbye!
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