It's hot
It was 35 degrees today in Sapporo. I went out to the supermarket in the middle of the day and almost melted. The air was as thick and hot as miso soup. There was a family across the road who had created a little garden of brightly coloured plastic inflatable things on the concrete outside the apartment and were splashing water about. The kids and the dad were all in their togs in the paddling pool. People everywhere are eating ice-blocks. Red bean frozen ice. Green tea ice-cream. My ice-block of choice is pink grapefruit ice. I took the tram to Odori Park in the late afternoon and watched a man lying back on the grass playing a ukelele to himself. It was weird thinking that this park is where they have the huge snow festival every year. Right where that man was playing his ukelele might have been a Japanese castle made out of ice a few months ago.
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Hi Katy - good to know you have the high as well as low temperatures. it's always impossible to imagine extremes of temperature at the other end of the scale from where one is. It seems as if it will always be hot, for ever and in all places.
Right, just as in winter I can't imagine everything not being covered in snow and ice, and forget what it is like to walk on concrete - and when the snow melts in Spring it surprises me that there are actually roads and footpaths buried under there.
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