Mauya.
One of the stations of life (10).
Day 9 in Tokyo (Visit to my daughter's university and visit my benefactor) Tuesday, August 7, 2013
My daughter finally rested, and we were ready to visit our daughter's college. When I came back, I wanted to visit the manager and his wife and another customer couple at the 7-Eleven store where my daughter used to work part-time.
I heard from my daughter that the couple who run the 7-Eleven store has a Chinese wife who is the store manager and a Japanese husband who is the manager. The wife is a capable, open-minded and capable strong woman. Just because she is a Chinese, she never shows weakness. Because the location of the store she runs is not very good, she has to pay more than other stores in terms of operation. But she always racks her brains to come up with ways to give customers meticulous care and meet their various needs.
The daughter said that the store manager often leaves early and returns late, and the requirements for the store staff are also very strict, and because of her unremitting efforts, it has a far leading performance among the more than 90 chain stores in Hachioji City, Nishitokyo.
At the same time, my daughter also contributed to the store, and the number of loyalty cards sold to customers was the largest among more than 90 chain stores, and it was because of her daughter's part-time work experience that she laid a solid foundation for her later employment and work.
The daughter said that she was not only cared for by the couple in life, but also learned a lot of principles of life from the store manager, as well as social knowledge and experience that could not be learned in school. Coupled with the fact that the store manager is a Chinese, and there are always endless things to say and talk about with the store manager, my daughter said that she is as special and trustworthy as a relative.
In addition to visiting these two couples, we also visited a customer couple that our daughter met when she was working at 7-Eleven. The man is the presiding officer of the temple, and the woman is the full-time wife of the family. The temple presiding officer in Japan is equivalent to a Chinese monk, and unlike in China, according to different sects, some of the temple presiding officers in Japan can get married, and there is no difference between normal people in daily life and diet. According to his daughter, he was well-off and wealthy, owned several temples, and he was the heir.
The couple's home is relatively close to the 7-Eleven store, and they visit this store almost every day, knowing that their daughter has been in Japan since junior high school and is now studying alone, and they have special admiration and care for their daughter. The couple, who was just over 50 and 40, had no children, so they treated their daughter as if it were their own. They often give their daughters some snacks, small gifts, daily necessities, etc., and sometimes take their daughters to Chinese restaurants to eat.
What touched her daughter the most was that she was going to move from Hachioji City to Edo City due to her job, and when the couple learned about it, they used a car to move back and forth for their daughter several times.
Tokyo is divided into Nishitokyo and Higashitokyo, with HigashiTokyo having 23 wards and being in the center of Tokyo, while Nishitokyo has 26 cities that are located in the periphery of Tokyo and are a little further away from the center of Tokyo. So it takes more than 2 hours to drive from Hachioji City to Edo Ward. The couple saved their daughter nearly 60,000 yen in moving expenses.
My daughter is a grateful person, and before coming to Japan, she repeatedly asked me to bring some hometown specialties to those who had helped and cared for her. With her first month's salary, she bought a few boxes of snacks and visited the store manager and his wife, the clerks she had worked with, as well as the temple abbot couple.
My daughter was able to successfully enter university and find employment alone, thanks to the care and support of these friends in a foreign country.
There are warm and kind people everywhere in the world, as long as you know how to be grateful and are grateful to a person who knows how to repay your kindness, and you are a person who keeps working hard, no matter you go to the **, or the end of the world, there will be a pair of warm and warm hands to support you and help you.
We chatted casually, and the day's schedule was set. I fried the eggs and baked the bread slices. I slathered my favorite jam on the bread slices, while my daughter and husband smeared the bean paste they bought at a 100-yen store, and we drank milk with ice cubes and ate deliciously.
After a simple breakfast, we set off. From Funabori Station in Edo Ward, I took the subway and train, and changed stations several times to get to Hachioji City, which took about an hour and cost 1,400 yen (more than 90 yuan) for a person to go back and forth. Out of Hachioji Station, my daughter led us to her free school bus.
School buses are free, but are included in the tuition. My daughter's school is a well-known private university in Tokyo, and the tuition fee is very expensive, up to about 1.5 million yen (more than 90,000 yuan) per academic year, and international students can get 300,000 yen reduced according to their grades. The university's facilities are advanced and avant-garde, as well as the beauty of its environment, which is famous in Tokyo.
There is a long queue for the bus to the university, and the bus departs at different times.
I asked my daughter in confusion why there were still many people in the summer vacation, and she said that some students used the vacation to do research. There are also some scholars and companies who visit the school, and some well-known companies and universities are cooperating with universities to carry out project research.
My daughter said that there are still relatively few people waiting in line today, and if there is no holiday, there will be several long queues around the station, but there is no need to wait for five minutes to make a trip. Unlike China, 90% of Japan's universities are private, with good facilities and equipment, and expensive tuition fees. The school also provides student housing, but the cost is high, and most students cannot afford it, so most students live in rented houses off-campus, so that it is convenient to work off-campus.
There is another reason, when companies recruit people, they need to look at whether you have part-time work experience and the number of years you have worked in your resume. Some companies pay special attention to whether students have early contact with society and work experience. Therefore, students who are not from wealthy families in Japan do not work part-time. High school students are also allowed to work part-time, but it is forbidden to work in bars and pornography-related establishments, and there are time limits for part-time work. Therefore, many students go to work as soon as they enter high school, and the purpose of their part-time work is to spend their pocket money freely, not to exercise themselves. It was only after I went to university that I had a direction and consciously experienced life and trained myself.
There are many hillside roads in Tokyo, and my daughter's university is located on the mountain. We rode the school bus and ran along the rugged hillside, although it was a hillside, the asphalt road was exceptionally smooth and perfect. Looking at the blue sky and white clouds through the window, the villas and apartments embedded in a lush grass are like oil paintings, so bright and beautiful, making people feel like they have entered the world of painting.
My daughter suddenly became excited, Mom and Dad, you see, that is the home where I lived when I was in college, and we looked in the direction that my daughter pointed to, and there was a white attic not far away. The daughter said that she lived on the second floor on the east side, and there were many small rooms separated on the second floor, and the landlord was a 78-year-old widow. The old man is very kind, knowing that it is not easy for international students, he often drives his daughter to the biggest and cheapest supermarket to buy things, and sometimes gives his daughter some daily necessities.
Her daughter said that when she was working, she had to ride a bicycle in order to save money on public transportation. But when I came back, because it was uphill, I pushed my bicycle step by step, and I was already sweating profusely when I got home. When it's hot, your whole clothes will be soaked, just like taking a sauna. I know the hardships of my daughter, who has spent the whole four years climbing with sweat.
The school bus took about 15 minutes to reach the university, and we got off the bus, and what unfolded in front of us was like a palace in the mountains, so magnificent, so spectacular and luxurious.
When we entered the campus, all the buildings were in European style, so solemn and solemn, and its garden was Japanese pastoral style, and every bonsai or lawn was so elegant and exquisite.
Thinking about the hardships of my daughter's part-time job, and our full sponsorship of my daughter's schooling, it is also worth it to study in such an elegant, magnificent and picturesque university.
My daughter took us to visit one place after another, from the school building, the laboratory building, the library, the gymnasium, the bowling alley to the restaurant, etc. There are also McDonald's, which are rare in Japanese universities, and some chain stores. Because it's a holiday, many of them are closed. Seeing such facilities and beautiful environment, I was proud that the facilities and environment of the university were the best when I studied abroad, but here it has become much inferior. This is the best and most beautiful university I have ever seen in my life, no wonder the tuition fees are so high.
The daughter's eyebrows fluttered, and a bright smile kept floating on her daughter's face. My daughter is proud and proud to be able to attend such a university, and I can't help but laugh when I look at my daughter's smile blooming like a flower. Joke that you are the luckiest and happiest person in the world, and you have spent four years in this picturesque environment, so the hardships and costs you pay are worth it. My daughter also smiled and replied, of course, I am the luckiest and happiest person.
Although we wore sun umbrellas, the hot weather still caused some beads of sweat on our foreheads, and we walked into a lounge, where the cool wind hit us and loaded us into the comfortable sofa. My daughter grabbed a few cold drinks from the vending machine, and we drank and enjoyed the good leisure time.
Because of the sweat on our faces, my daughter and I, who love beauty, went to the bathroom to touch up our makeup. The bathroom is clean and bright, just like entering the bathroom of a five-star hotel, not so much a bathroom as a powder room. Large mirrors, vanity tops, and floors are clean and spotless. What surprised me the most was that there were vending machines for feminine sanitary napkins in each partition bathroom, as well as a precautionary button. The user-friendly equipment makes me feel very warm, which I didn't have in our school when I studied abroad in the past.
I heard my daughter say that because this is an engineering university, there are very few female students, so it is equipped with such a precautionary device, once the girl feels that there is something abnormal, she can immediately press the precaution button, and the school's security personnel will arrive immediately. My daughter specializes in information and computer science, and I heard her say that sometimes only one girl is listening to the lecture in the lecture hall of Ruoda. It can be seen that there are very few female students majoring in computer science.
Time flies, the school tour is almost over, and we feel hungry and are ready to take the school bus back to Hachioji City for lunch, and then visit our daughter's friends after eating.
There are many restaurants of various sizes around Hachioji City Station, and we entered the curry specialty chain that all three of us liked, and this restaurant is also relatively close to the 7-11 store, so you can walk directly to visit my daughter's manager after eating.
The restaurant is not particularly big, two floors up and down, the decoration is particularly refreshing and elegant, although it is a restaurant but a bit like a café, there are a lot of people, there is no noise and noise.
In Japanese restaurants, there is no loud noise or noise, and everyone is concentrating on eating and enjoying the meal. Only some izakaya are more lively when eating and drinking. At the end of each year, whether it is a company, a school or a ** unit, everyone AA gathers in the izakaya for the "year-end party" activity, which is very lively and happy. The meaning of "year-end party" is to brush away all the pain and troubles of the past year, welcome the new year, and hope to have a more exciting and fulfilling new year.
Due to the hot weather and the fact that I had walked a lot at university, I felt very tired after lunch, so I wanted to take a break before walking. The waitress with a sweet smile on her face in a big cute white lace work apron came over and cleaned up our table and added some ice cubes and cold water to our glasses. She looked at us speaking Chinese, seemed to understand what we meant, knew we were going to sit for a while, smiled at us and walked away.
My daughter took this opportunity to start calling the 7-11 store where she used to work, but unfortunately, the store manager and his wife were not there today, and they were all called to the headquarters for a meeting, and they couldn't come back for a while. Although the store manager and his wife are not there, but the daughter is still excited, she is about to meet the clerk who worked with her a few months ago, the daughter and the clerk get along very well, just like sisters, trust each other, care for each other, and the daughter also brought them some trinkets with Chinese characteristics.
After her daughter finished beating **, she couldn't hold back her excitement, and she couldn't wait to see them soon.
We came out of the cosy and elegant restaurant and walked directly in the direction of the 7-Eleven store. In order not to disturb the customers in the store, the daughter didn't go in, and hit **, they came out one by one, and the daughter hugged each other happily when she saw them. They bowed politely to my husband and me, and I thanked them for taking care of my daughter over the years. We put down the gifts we had given to the store manager and them one by one, and our daughter reluctantly chatted with them for a while before saying goodbye.
After leaving the 7-Eleven store, we walked towards the station, my daughter's excitement still could not be calmed down, chattering about their stories along the way, and my husband and I shared her happiness together. The daughter said, "Mom, our clerks all say that you are young and beautiful, and Dad is young and spiritual" I laughed after listening to it, "Your clerks have sweet mouths, you gave them honey" Although I knew it was a compliment, I was still happy in my heart.
With such a happy mood, we strolled through the streets of Hachioji City. The next stop is the temple host couple we are going to visit. (Subsequently).