Thursday, August 27, 2009

Cheerless Murmurings - Week 53 (May 19 - May 25)

Cheerless murmurings

Week 53

Time rolled on much as it had the past year in Koganei. Classes drifted by as though in a haze of laughter, talking points and target language structures. The high of having stayed in Japan for more than one year continued to drive me forward. Summer was just around the corner and the weather was really starting to get warm for the first time. The cicadas would soon be chirping their way to oblivion and the summer flowers would be enjoying their short bursts of glory.

Much like the cicadas and flowers, news of unusual and interesting events were short this week. The usual barrage of karaoke singing and plastic instrument playing echoed through the streets of Shimo-Kita-Zawa on Monday, but otherwise this week remained not much more than a mishmash of the rest...

Writing somewhat gloomily...

Ian "Mello Yello" Cantello

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