A Rainy Day

A city-wide cleanup was scheduled for this morning. Since it rained, a “neighborhood leader” came to my parents’ house and informed that the activity was cancelled. (In my hometown, each neighborhood has one or two leaders who administer community activities and help implement municipal-government policies.)

I spent the whole day in my parents’ house reading comics (which my brother left) and working on Japanese translation of my instrument. It has been only a week since I arrived in Japan, but I feel like my departure from Ann Arbor is ages ago. A lot of things happened, and I hope a lot more things will happen by the end of my fieldwork.