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Shoes Problem (2)
At last, the train arrived at the nearest station to my office. Before getting off the train, I thought was worried I might see someone in my company or my coworkers might find me.
I imagined that they would think, "Why is the public relations manager of my company is walking without one sole of his shoes? Is he insane? Does Is he trying to lower our company with his stupid behavior? "
When As I was getting off the train, surprisingly the other sole came off the bottom of my shoes. I said "Gosh...what a strange situation I'm in have! " in my mind. Anyway, I picked it up and put it into my bag again as well.
However, I became happy since a pair of my shoes finally got to were the same level in height. As a result, I could walk as if my shoes had no sole from the beginning. Moreover, the distance between the station and my office was not so very far. It took only 8 minutes on foot.
I somehow finally arrived at the office. I have another pair of shoes there so I put on the shoes those on during work time.
After finishing work for the day, I could've put on the shoes when I worn my spare shoes to returned home however, I decided to wear a the pair of the shoes with no soles. I just wanted to throw them away in my house.
Therefore, I left my office with the no sole shoes. It was not bad in the beginning. I walked to the station near the office without any problems. I got on a train heading for home and arrived at the nearest station to my home.
When I was going up on the stairs in the station, someone behind me might have realized that I put on shoes with no soles. But I didn't care about it much.
When I left the station and started walking, I felt an uneasy feeling on my feet. That It was the sound metal material and nails of the bottoms of shoes started ing to be exposed.
As I got close to home, the noise from the shoes was getting bigger louder. I felt awkward since a few people were walking towards the same direction with me.
When I got home, I was relieved from the heart. I talked to my family about this weird incident. They laughed a lot. My eight years old son even said " I want to hear the story again! "0 votedAugust 25, 20160Shoes Problem (1)
In the morning I was heading for out to the nearest station from my house. It usually takes approximately 15 minutes on foot.
When I got close to the station, all of a sudden a the sole came off the bottom of my left shoes all of sudden! There was no way to fix it. So, I picked it up from off the road and put it into my briefcase.
Although I usually put on wear brown leather shoes, I choose black shoes instead. out of three pairs of black shoes by chance. It seems that making that the choice brought led me the unpleasant situation.
It was weird to walk with uneven pairs of shoes. I actually tried to walk naturally as if I wore normal shoes without any problems. However, it was hard and didn't work well. I'm sure people around me easily realized my dumb situation predicament.
Anyway, I got on a commuting commuter train and opened a book. I said to myself, "Don't think about it too much. That’s It's nothing. All the people around me are a strangers to me. I don't need to embarrass myself."
The title of the book was "1Q84" written by Haruki Murakami, one of my favorite novel authors. I tried to focus on reading it and succeeded in the attempt somehow. I was in the story for around an hour. and read for about an hour.
(to be continued)0 votedAugust 25, 20160Very sad scene in sports.
I have heard that in America, baseball is not as popular as it used to be while baseball is still popular in Japan. One of the most popular baseball events in Japan is ''Koushien'' which started today. ''Koushien'' is played not by professional players but by high school students. The event has a bit strange culture tradition. The students who have lost, scoop sand in from the stadium and put it into their bags before getting out of the stadium. They bring it the sand back to their house in memory. as a remembrance of the game. It's very sad to see students scooping out sand while crying.0 votedAugust 8, 20161Hanoi Story(2)
After one and half hour an hour and a half, I noticed realized I had had no power to think with a calm mind. I should say I was confused.
I wanted to take a rest in a coffee shop there. Although there were several coffee shops, all the stores didn't have an air conditioner. I really needed somewhere with it.
I found a hotel. The first floor was air conditioned. When I stepped into the hotel, someone shouted to me in Vietnamese which I didn't understand. The voice was from a guy sitting on the a chair near the entrance. He was a gatekeeper. There was no way to communicate with him except for body languages.
Fortunately, I found a female hotel clerk who could speak English. Then, I explained to her my situation and asked her to give me a permission to take a rest for a while. Finally, she allowed me to do. She said, “You have 15 minutes."
I sat down on a sofa. The Cold air gave me some energy to start to think about a strategy. After checking google maps again, I opened my notebook and drew a simple map with street names. I might have gone back and forth on the same street. So I decided I would take notes about each street which I checked. Yes, it was just a simple elimination method but, I really needed it! I spent 15 minutes there.
I started to search for the motorcycle again. Although it took more than one an hour, I finally found the motorcycle! It was hard for me to describe the delight with words, especially in English.
Then, I then went to the stamp shop and made my daughter's stamp. It was still 3:00pm. However, I didn't have the willpower to visit other places.
Then I went to a department store near my friend's office since it had an air conditioner! I found a sofa and sat down there. If I had been in a normal body condition, at least I would have read a book. However, I had no energy and stared at nowhere nothing while sitting in the air conditioning for more than an hour. My body really needed to take a rest. I had to admit I got heatstroke.
After my friend finished his work for that day, he took me to his place. I had no appetite at the time then. After an hour in of taking a rest there, I felt okay. So, we had dinner together at a local Vietnamese restaurant.
Though I felt I couldn't eat heavy food, fortunately, there was an ideal food for me; That was pho. It was is a Vietnamese noodle soup featuring noodle made from rice. It was a light meal and easy to eat. I enjoyed it though I couldn’t itfinish all.
Then, I talked to my friend about my whole beef head adventure on of that day and we laughed a lot together.0 votedAugust 8, 20161Hanoi Story(1)
This is one of my travel stories. I should warn you that this is too long writing! a long entry.
I visited Hanoi, Vietnam in the beginning of May this year.
I stayed at my friend's place. His place was a bit far from the Hanoi downtown. It took around 30 minutes by a taxi.
I spent a weekend with him. He took me to many places by on his motorcycle.
On weekdays of course, he needed to work. So, I borrowed his motorcycle during his working time work hours. I could not only saved money for a taxi but also experienced traveling like local Vietnamese people since most of them moved by motorcycle.
That One day I was heading by rode the motorcycle for to a stamp store near the downtown since I wanted to make a special stamp as a souvenir for my daughter.
However, I couldn't get there easily. The stamp store was located in a pretty complicated area for a tourist or a stranger.
Since the google map on my phone indicated that I was a bit close area in close proximity to the store, I stopped the motorcycle on the sidewalk and decided to leave the motorcycle for a while. I thought I just needed to find the store and could come back soon.
However, the store was quite far more farther than I had expected. After I got lost, I simply followed the google map on my phone and somehow arrived at the store.
So I started to return to the place where I left the motorcycle but, I got lost again. Then, I was confused.
It was quite hard to find that one motorcycle since there were so many other motorcycles. There were more than 100 motorcycles on a block, at least. but, I really needed to find it since the motorcycle was not mine but that of my friend!
I remembered what looked like the motorcycle the motorcycle looked like and had a picture of its plate number on my phone. It was a red YAMAHA motorcycle. However, most motorcycles there were red or black.
I went back and forth trying to find my friend's motorcycle. It was extremely hot and humid. I knew terrible humidity in Tokyo, but that in Hanoi was harsher since the air temperature was higher!0 votedAugust 8, 20161trust
I realized again that it's very important to be honest and trust someone who is our treasure those closest to us.
Why I realized about that because I realized this when one of my friends had misunderstood what I said.
So we tried to figure out what how we had misunderstood each other.
And we could do that! We were able to work things out. We were talking about that it for pretty much two hours. I't going to be It was a good experience for us. We made sure to think our relationship and we got became closer to each other than before.
Now I'm thinking about what differences are there between now and before I came to Canada.
I think I'm trying to do anything new things here, but sometimes I'm afraid of that. I wanted to ask something to someone who is stranger, a stranger a question, but I couldn't. I should have done that it. Now I regret about that it.
I 'll chairing that try it again tomorrow!0 votedJuly 25, 20160Last Thursday when I vacuumed a the kitchen.
Last Thursday when I vacuumed a the kitchen. A The extension pipe of the vacuum cleaner suddenly fell on to my little toe.
I shouted, "Ouch, Ouch!"
I wasn’t able to walk smoothly correctly because of the sharp pain. It was 8:30 in the morning so I decided to go to orthopedics clinic. There were many patients and I had to wait for more than {X} hours. {insert a number}I was very disappointed.After taking the X-ray inspection the Doctor told me,
"The X‐ray shows that there is a crack fracture in the bone of your right little toe.
You don’t need to apply a plaster cast, but it takes two months to heal a wound.
There are no special treatments in your crack for the fracture.
I will give you a painkiller and stomach medicine.You should take them after the meals, three times a day for a week.
The painkiller is very powerful. The stomach medicine will protect you from the side effects of the painkiller."
I was a bad luck. really unlucky. I walked in an awkward way, awkwardly typically because of the pain from an the injury.I have to careful about the my carelessness.
After that I went to Kariya Toyota sougo hospital to see my friends who took had an operation because of a womb tumor. She took had laparoscopic surgery. 20 hours ago, less than one day she had to start to practice walking. A nurse let her to walk with her. In less than a day after surgery she was walking with the assistance of a nurse. I think it was too early for her to move around. He She had was still drowsy.
I hope she and I we both will have a quick recovery.
Mari0 votedJuly 24, 20160
