Friday, March 11

Earthquake...

Here is the play by play at around 2:45pm today while I was teaching Mr. T.
Mr. T is a President of a big company around here, and we were on the subject of cherry blossoms. This is the dialogue:


Glenn: You should have a cherry blossom party with your employees at Utsubo Park in the end of March. It just around the corner from your office.
Mr T: Really? Utsubo Park has cherry blossoms? I didn't know that.
The voice in Glenn's head: Is the room shaking?! Or swaying? Is this an earthquake?! But Mr. T is fine, he looks fine, he isn't saying anything...Am I sick?! It has been a really long week, maybe something is wrong with me, because the room really feels like it is going around in a circle...
Of course while the voice in Glenn's head was talking, Glenn's real voice was also saying: Yes, Utsubo has beautiful cherry blossoms! I can't believe you don't know that. How long have your worked in Honmachi?! 6 years, right?! Ustubo is truly beautiful when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom! You should definitely check it out!!

Then, all at the same time;
1. I noticed that the calendar on the wall was swaying back and forth a lot!
2. The Junior High school girls in the school across the street were screaming in high screeching voices
3. The nice lady who works above me came running down the stairs with her husband and said from outside the door, "Glenn, are you OK?! It an earthquake...We are gonna evacuate and get out of the building...are you coming?... In Tokyo, it's supposedly really big!!"

To be continued...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Don't hold us in suspense.

What happened post-earthquake?

Dad has been forwarding your blog, but 8.9 in the northeast part of Japan is nothing to sneeze at.

Did you allow Mr. T to leave his lesson or was he kept after school?

Cosmo