The last person arrived at the hotel at about 20:00 hours. He left his hospital after the treatment of dialysis patients as the Saturday routine. As soon as he arrived, we went out drinking.
It was a quarter century ago when we got together last time. We were all single and still pretty green as doctors at that time. Now, we had got married, had kids and one had even a grandchild. Furthermore, we are at a certain position in our profession. It wasn't easy to adjust our schedules. We enjoyed chatting and drinking so much, but the most joyful one must have been Y, about whom I wrote in the previous entry.
We exchanged stories about each other's quarter century. To my surprise, a friend's wife was from the same year of the same high school as my wife. Time has passed by like a flash. However, it wouldn't be enough if we had a whole night to talk with. We had to get up early the next morning and came back to the hotel about 12 o'clock midnight.
The picture shows the Tohoku bullet train we took the next morning, which connects Tokyo and Aomori, the northern end of Honshu, the biggest island of the main four islands of Japan. Japanese bullet trains are really comfortable and have been in service for 50 years without any physical injury or death. Even in the recent catastrophic earthquake, seven trains running over 200 km/h successfully stopped. How amazing!
It was a quarter century ago when we got together last time. We were all single and still pretty green as doctors at that time. Now, we had got married, had kids and one had even a grandchild. Furthermore, we are at a certain position in our profession. It wasn't easy to adjust our schedules. We enjoyed chatting and drinking so much, but the most joyful one must have been Y, about whom I wrote in the previous entry.
We exchanged stories about each other's quarter century. To my surprise, a friend's wife was from the same year of the same high school as my wife. Time has passed by like a flash. However, it wouldn't be enough if we had a whole night to talk with. We had to get up early the next morning and came back to the hotel about 12 o'clock midnight.
The picture shows the Tohoku bullet train we took the next morning, which connects Tokyo and Aomori, the northern end of Honshu, the biggest island of the main four islands of Japan. Japanese bullet trains are really comfortable and have been in service for 50 years without any physical injury or death. Even in the recent catastrophic earthquake, seven trains running over 200 km/h successfully stopped. How amazing!
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