day 24 - yo! kohama...

27/06/07 18:22
i`ve arrived in yokohama. so far i haven`t seen much of the city though. i left atami this morning and took the train (not a shinkansen this time) to tokyo. katou-san, my next host, picked me up at the station and we took the subway to his house. he is an elderly man, close to 80 i suppose, but still quite healthy for that age. apart from him, his wife, another woman (don`t know the family relation there), his daughter, her husband and their three kids (middle school, high school, university) live in the house. his daughter`s family is still at work/school. Japanese school goes always into the afternoon and is followed by school club activities which means that kids will usually get home late). the other woman seems to be mentally handicapped (due to my work during the last 9 months i`m quite good at picking this up now), though i don`t know how exactly. there is no further schedule for today, so i`ve got quite a bit of relaxing ahead of me. 14439.