Yesterday,Spt.25, I attended the reunion of our coleagues in Naie

  Yesterday, in the heavy thunder rain continuing from the previous night, I left home to Naie to attend the reunion to be held every four year. I took a train by way of Iwamizawa. I got off at Iwamizawa station to change the train for Asahikawa, and looked around the station a little while. By the way, Iwamizawa was where my family lived just after we first came over to Hokaido and lived till I graduated from university. I remember well the former building of the station because I commuted to my university in Sapporo for four years. But the building was rebuilt two years ago, so it looked very new to me. The station square, which used to be only a dirt space, was a beautiful plaza paved with brick-like slates. In the center of the square, there were some bronze statues of young boys and girls under big trees.
  I arrived at Naie an hour earlier than I had planned. I met a foreign gentleman in front of the station and talked in English. He was an engineer and came on business. He went somewhere by taxi. Then I killed time drinking coffee at a coffee shop. I got on a hotel bus in which there had been some former colleagues of mine.

  The party began just after we arrived at the hotel. 25 people attended the party, and we enjoyed eating, drinking, and talking.