Wednesday 22 July 2009

The Queue for the Tram


AM

Least: At approximately 8:20am was woken by the terrifying sound of my phone ringing. When my phone rings during the AM period it can only be work calling. I was summoned to work in Gakken-Nara-Tomigaoka for the day. I made it just in time.

Most: At 11:06am the sky darkened slightly during a solar eclipse. I took my adult students outside to see the spectacle but was slightly disappointed by the thickish covering of clouds. My colleague's brother had travelled to some island down south to see the event. He was rained out.

PM

Least: Close to 5:30pm I arrived at the Hankai Tram line to discover a tram waiting but also a long and inexplicable queue. My thoughts about the queue were first taken to a full tram or some kind of fault. Neither turned out to be the case. The twenty or so people lining up simply didn't want the discomfort of standing up on the tram. Enraged, I learnt a lesson and missed my tram.

Most: Between 2:55pm and 3:35pm I spoke to a lowish level English learner about her hobby. She was a fanatical Placido Domingo follower. In fact, she spend much of her time flying to all parts of the globe to be close to the great man. Her next trip will involve a chartered jet that will take her and about twenty others to Beijing. They will stay at the same hotel as Domingo and haunt him in the lobby.

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