Winter wonderbrrrr

It’s two deg C outside and the wind is howling.  I feel like the top of my head is about to fall off and with it, my teeth.  I immediately visualized how I would look like and how I will explain my absence to my sensei (…Sumimasen..kyouha isha-san ni ikutsumori nandesukedo….), of course in English.  I left my lab to meet my family at our favorite stop, the takoyaki shop in Q’t Mall, only to cancel our restaurant plans because it would entail a 10-minute walk from the bus stop.  At first we were somewhat undecided but the 7-minute wait at the bus stop made us decide against the “brave act” of going to RanRan.  To make the long wait bearable, we went down the train station to grab a cup of coffee at Starbucks where we chanced upon Nishimura-sensei.  At first she didn’t hear me calling her name so I pretended not to see her (sigh!), and just when I was in the middle of pouring honey to my honey’s coffee, she said “konnichiwa”. Of course I cannot ignore her,  she’s one of my favorite senseis in the university because she made life bearable, and why is that? That would be another entry to this blog.

So to continue my bus story, we missed the supposed 6:10PM bus by a  mere minute,  so we had to wait for the next bus which means standing there for another 9 minutes. The wind was really freezing so I asked my better half to stand against the wind “penguin in the north pole” style, you know,  Penguins survive the extreme weather by huddling together and taking turns in bracing against the wind.  I guess I will never volunteer to take my husband’s place.  Our daughter sat on my husband’s feet and I pressed my face to his chest, for once I never cared about what people  around us would think: I just want to be warm.

Finally the bus arrived!  I have never been so happy to be inside the bus.  All of a sudden the bus is the most wonderful place to be in! God bless the bus driver for being on time.

~ by myevillareal on January 15, 2009.