A warm day today,too. The first school guard after the summer vacation.

  It was an unusually hot day in Hokkaido. Here in Tomakomai, the temperature rose as high as 28 degrees, and in the house the thermometer was always indicating 30 degrees. Ayako found an electric fan upstairs and set it on the heater, which was not, of course, lit up. I felt hot even in the early morning, when I stood at the crossing as a school guard.