Japan was hit by a cold wave at the end of the year 2008. I was supposed to have consecutive days-off and ski around New Year's Day, but I couldn't enjoy anything personally due to stuff about my second daughter and household chores. It was rare these days that we had enough snow for skiing at the turn of the year around my hometown. I'm going to write about something that happened at the year's end in the following several entries.
My second daughter is living in Nagoya City, one of the biggest cities in Japan and home to the Toyota Motor Corporation. She seemed to have installed "kotatsu" in early winter. "Kotatsu" is a small table with an electric heater underneath and is covered by a quilt. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu) It made her room comfortable, but on the other hand, she felt like her room was too small and it made her think that she didn't need her desk. She asked me how to send the desk back to my house and I checked out some agents and found that the cost of package and transport of the desk wasn't cheap. My wife and I ended up deciding to pick her and her desk up in Nagoya City by car. At the same time, we called our eldest daughter, who is living in Tokyo, to go to Nagoya City and we picked her up too.
(Vocabulary)
be hit by a cold wave 寒波に見舞われる
fireplace with a coverlet
small table with an electric heater underneath and covered by a quilt こたつ
end of the year / turn of the year / year's end / year-end 年末
bale package / bale packaging / package / packaging / packing / stowage 梱包
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