Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Clueless at Tsukuba center

It made us worried that no one was there who seems to be there for us. I started looking for a telephone booth leaving Ajinkya with the luggage. There was a mall on the other side of the road. There were many entrance to the underground Tsukuba station. But, i couldn't find a telephone booth nearby. We stood there helplessly. There was a map of the area which was inaccessible to us as it was mostly in Japanese. It was the time to take help of somebody native, So, we asked a person who was passing by with his little daughter. fortunately, he had some of english gyan. We asked him about some telephone booth nearby. He didn't know about it but he lend his phone to us for making the call. That was the kind of help we were not expecting from a stranger. We called to my host researcher and he said that he is on his way. The man who helped us has to rush to catch his bus. We thanked him many times and he told us that he had been offered this kind of help when he went to other countries. Now, after some time I was able to figure out a man who was coming for us. He was wearing a black suit and he was my host researcher, Dr. Kunichi Miyazawa, group leader of Fullerene Engineering group, NIMS. I had seen his photo on the website but I was not able to recognize him. There was another person with him who was his group member, Dr. Katao. They came in his car. So, we loaded up all our luggage in the car and headed for our accomadation facility at Ninomiya house. I think they both were not well aware of the path to the house. So, we were roaming here and there and finally reaching at the same place we started. But, finally we reached there.  

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