A souvenir from Mathu, Grenoble, France.

  In the morning, I collected garbage and trash in and around the house and carried it to the trash collecting station. Ayako went to the hospital to check her diabetes. In the afternoon, I went to the city office for the first time in five months. About two weeks ago, Ms Sogabe, a city official, phoned me telling that she was keeping a souvenir at her office Mathu's wife had brought to me from Grenoble, France,so I had promised to go there to accept it.
 On the way I was driving to the city office, it suddenly began to rain quite torrentially, and I recalled tornado warning had been issued. But when I arrive at the office, it almost stopped raining. At the office, I was handed a ceramic work of beautiful scenery of the city of Grenoble on a wooden plate and a picture card with a note written in Japanese by Mathu. Emmet, an Irish man, came and I talked with him for a little while. He said he got a position as an English teacher at Sapporo International school. I said to him,"Congratulations!" On the other hand, Bryan Rose, another student of mine, didn't come to his Japanese class today, because he had gone to Aichi, Ms Sogabe said. Bryan's family seem to continue to live in Tomakomai, so what had happened to him, both Ms Sogabe and I wondered.