2024.3.18

It was fine.   

I have had a backpain.

I was  rather busy at work.

On my way home I dropped at a convenient store. Every I drive the same route. But the place I thougit was different one.

One of the TV program was over. There was an unexpected ending.

2014.12.11

It was cloudy and rainy.

 

Tonight when I got to my station, there was a man standing in the train and we stared each other thinking we know each other.  And he started saying "Kitani sensei ?" Sensei (先生) means teacher. I said yes. Indeed he was one of the students I taught more than a quarter century ago.
I asked him his name and age and the name of his classroom teacher to make sure.  When I came back home, I checked the graduation album soon and confirmed. He looked quite different from the junior high school student  but I am glad to have recognized him.

It is one of the pleasures of having been a teacher.

十二月十一日（jyunigatsu jyuichi nichi）： December 11

I am in Nagoya (名古屋). I went to the Expo 2005 Aichi Commemorative Park today. Its nickname is Moricoro Park.
When there was Expo 2005, I have worked in the Andean Amazonian Pavilion and stayed in Nagoya for 7 months. After returning to my hometown, I have never visited the Expo 2005 site. Almost everything was gone, but there are still Linimo, Ferris Wheel, Satsuki and May's House, Tea Ceremony House, Japanese Garden, Aichi EXPO Commemorative Hall, and so on.
It's been 5 years but I still remember many things, both good and bad.
I happened to see Morizo and Kiccoro, the Image Characters, today.

六月九日（rokugatsu kokonoka）： June 9

Memory of umbrella (傘: kasa).
I usually bring an umbrella with me even if it is fine.
One day long time ago when I forgot bringing it, it started raining suddenly. My best friend and I decided to buy the same one then. Though she passed away more than 10 years ago, I still have that same umbrella, but I do not use it often. I put it in the office as okigasa (置き傘), a spare umbrella for sudden rainy day.
Today at lunch time, it was slightly raining so I brought it to the restaurant though I did not use. On my way back, it seemed I lost the cover by accident without knowing. When I got to the office I noticed that I lost it. So I went back to the restaurant to find it. On my way there I could not find. At the restaurant there was not there. But after a while the cover was there on the side of the street. How happy I felt!
Even if it is trifle for other people, for me it is something important to link to my dead best friend.
There are some people that are already dead but are still in my heart always.
I wonder how many people would remember me if I disappear from this world?