I have moved. |
It is the new year's eve. Today I am moving out from my old apartment. This is the Judgement Day. The big part of my stuff was books and cloths. I had eight boxes of books but I reduced them to two boxes and I got rid of half of my cloths. There is literally no place to store unneeded stuff in the new apartment so I put my best effort to minimize the load. Oh, that was like the snake has to go back into its own cast-off skin. It seemed impossible.
私の柔術の先輩で、私と同様にしょっちゅう引っ越しする人がいたのですが、その人の荷物は大きい物はベッドとテレビと本棚だけで、後は本当に段ボール箱2つだけという羨ましい方がいました。ウチのバンドの岳史さんもボストンからニューヨークに移って来た時は車に段ボール箱1つだけで引っ越して来たと言っていました。ハァ〜、毎日キチンと捨てる物は捨ててれば、こういう事ができてしまうのですねぃ。今の私には到底ムリな芸当でございます。
I remember one on my old Jiu-jitsu buddy who moves every year like I myself used to do, and he had bed, TV and bookshelves for the big stuff and had only two more boxes for everything else. Takeshi in my band also told me that he had only one box when he moved from Boston to New York. Gosh, how can they possibly do that?? I guess they have good system of throwing stuff away regularly and efficiently. Oh well.
で、なんでこのクソ忙しい日に限って雪やねん。 So why is it snowing on this super busy day?? |
とりあえず見なかったことにして、前のアパートへと戻りました。そして最後に出る前に掃除をして、ルームメイトから引っ越しソバと年越しソバをご馳走になり、アパートを後にしてギグへと出かけました。3年4ヶ月も住んだ家ですので、家を離れる時はさすがに感無量でございました。
この引っ越しにあたり、ルームメイトの二人とウチのバンドリーダーの一雄さんには死ぬほどお世話になりました。本当に本当にありがとうございました。一平、感激の至りでございます。
In my case, I cut to the bones but still had three car-loads of stuff. One load was all of my percussion instruments and it went to the house of Kazuo the band leader of WaFoo. Two loads came to my new apartment and, I tell ya, the room was so packed and I could not even see the floor. I was so worried but I had to leave the room as it was and go back to the old apartment to clean up. I had a gig afterwards also.
Then my old roommate cooked a nice soba noodle which is Japanese tradition to eat on right before the year changes and also when you move, so it was killing two birds with one stone. I had a nice bowl of soba noodle and left for the gig from the apartment where I had lived for 3 years and 4 months.
I really want to thank my old roommates and Kazuo the band leader. They helped me a lot in this moving process. Thank you guys very very much. I owe you guys big time.
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