It might be due to the confinement that I feel depressed these days. I stopped all the exercise including jogging and muscular workout last December when I suffered an inguinal hernia. After the surgery in March, I finally feel better and I think I can do exercises from now, but it's sad that I can't visit various unfamiliar places.
My daughter who is a postgraduate of Oxford University is now working as a resident in a hospital in Hokkaido, taking lectures through the remote system from Oxford. When the university decided to utilize the internet technology to avoid the negative effect of the pandemic last year, she came back to Japan to avoid rapid expansion of the infection and to make money for her study. She is an ordinary student in the U.K., but a physician in Japan.
She will stay in the U.K. for at least two years from October again. As she might not have time to come back home, my wife and I planned to visit her in Hokkaido in August. To my surprise, however, the flight which we had booked was cancelled due to few passengers. Originally, in this season of the year, lots of people make trips, and travel-related industries should be on season in August. We were able to get alternative transportation, but I felt compassion for ANA, All Nippon Airways.
Anyway, my daughter had already lived two years in Oxford, and I don't worry about her life in Oxford, but what will become of the pandemic in the U.K. I've no other way but to send her off with a smile.
(Vocabulary)
compassion 哀れみ, 思いやり, 同情
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