A Crowded Bus on a Hot Day

A Crowded Bus on a Hot Day

A crowded bus on a hot day is a complete nightmare: sweltering, sweaty, dizzy, and even vomiting. The stream of air is altogether stopped, and the sun is shining disgustfully. You cannot count on the air conditioner solving the problem, because it doesn’t play its role in such a situation. Beads of sweat run down through your body, and your T-shirt soon will look like you’ve tumbled down in a pool. It smells so sweaty in the bus, because all of the passengers are sweating as much as you are. Everybody in the bus does not seem quite happy. Even some blessed people who could get their seat are suffering from the heat and the smell, poor standing passengers, in addition, pant from both physical and psychological pressure. A crowded bus on a hot day is often covered with uncanny silence because nobody wants to enjoy talking with anyone. All you hear in this sauna-like conveyance will be somebody breathing with difficulty or complaining of the level of the discomfort index, which makes you more and more irritated. A crowded bus will make you want to purchase your own car, and even make an action against global warming.

The Co-op of University of the Ryukyus (the Central Store)

The Co-op of University of the Ryukyus (the Central Store)

There are two co-ops in University of the Ryukyus: Chu-ou Ten(the central sore) and Kitaguchi Ten(the northern branch), and I’d especially like to focus on Chu-ou Ten. It is a white, two-floor building located on nearly center of the site of Ryudai, selling a variety of food, beverages, confectionery, books, texts, magazines, dictionaries and stationery. Now, let’s go inside; going up the slope to open the door, then you may encounter a pillar on your right, and the shop stands over there. Chu-ou Ten consists of three sections; the food and drink corner, stationery corner, and book corner. The food and drink corner occupies the left space, the nearest to the entrance. Food is lined on the far-left four shelves, confectionery is taking the next three shelves, and beverages are cooled behind them. Stationery corner is located on the center of the shop and sells a variety of pens, erasers, notes, and files. Notes and printing paper is displayed on the left shelf and pens and erasers line on the opposite, and files and binders stand on the back shelf. The rest of the space is assigned to the book corner, which is selling books, novels, magazines and dictionaries. Chu-ou Ten is loved by the students and teachers of Ryudai.