Scent of wind
2008.09.07 23:36

Today was holiday. I got up in the early morning as usual and I took a walk near our house.I had a deep breath, then I caught the smell of strange sweet wind. It was not stimulus or irritant, but I thought it is harmful to our health.
Our house is 10 km away from the centre of industrial area where giant chimnies give off exhaust gas. I had no real time to take a deep breath since I an working indoors, but what a nasty smell!
We have factories of about ten chimnies 3 km away from near our town, but owing to the current economic recession no chimnies have emitted any smoke in these four months, so I had felt like I can keep on living in the town.
I came to Kokura -population 400,000 six months ago for some reason. I have half a mind to go back to Fukuoka early next year. Fukuoka -population 1,2 million has no factory.