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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 |
 Mou hitotsu
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Mejiro
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Volunteer
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Canada
Toban
Blue sky
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The lack of files was the major reason why I spent a mind-numbing day working on my Navy article, writing in total about... well, about twenty words or so. Of course, as soon as I left the office, I came up with all sorts of superb ideas- half of which I forgot by the time I reached home. Having a Palm is all well and good, but it's a bit inconvenient to have to dig it out while biking home.
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Of course, an office full of electronics and an office full of electronics that work are subtly, but vitally, different. Unfortunately, my office is in the latter category more often than not. For example, today the internet stopped working. Just like that. Of course, nobody so much as blinked an eyelid, primarily because this happens at least once a week... Anyway, we were without internet or email all day, which was rather a problem, because the file I wanted to use was on my computer at home, and I was rather relying on being able to fetch it over the internet. Interent disks are great ideas- but there's a dangerous presupposition that the internet will actually be available...
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The office may be chock-full of electronics- computers, fax machines,
telephones with more buttons than the average shirt shop- but it's still
fundamentally a rural office. This is brought home on occasion, such as
this morning. Just next to the entrance, there was a big bunch of
eda-mame- soy-beans- drying on the brickwork. Somehow, I can't
imagine something like this in Hiroshima...
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Speaking of Junior High School students (as we were, if only
tangentially), as two of the first year girls approached me on their way
to school just now, I heard 'se-no' (something like 'ready,
steady...'; a way of getting people to do things all together), and
then, as we passed, I got a perfectly synchronised chorus of 'Good
Morning'!
This year seems to be different to all the previous first
years, in that the children still speak when they see me. In past years,
it's been the case that as soon as the elementary school children go up
to Junior High, they make a point of ignoring their old teachers (this
isn't something only I've experienced; the Japanese teachers have
commented on it as well), but this hasn't happened this year. Yet...
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Another hada samui morning, although at least the rain has
stopped. Some of the Junior High School pupils have even gone back to
wearing their blazers.
This certainly is a strange rainy season, the
oddest I've known. I wonder what summer will be like?
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© Copyright 2003 Nathan Duckworth.
Updated: 8/1/03; 8:12:38 pm.
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