This makes me mad!

Some people in my apartment building are not good at reading our rubbish calendar. The calendars are very helpful (even colour coded) so we know exactly what can go out on what day. There are quite strict about rubbish collection in Japan and as a result the rubbish bags are clear so they can see what people are throwing away. Plastic bottles and cans have to be put out on a separate day and so if you put cans in with your household burnable rubbish they won’t take it away until you’ve sorted it out.

Some people in my building however have decided to ignore these rules. This is not helped by the fact that the weather is getting warmer and there are a few stray cats in the area. Needless to say our collection point was dirty, smelly and getting worse by the day. A few of us complained but nothing happened and so I decided enough was enough.

It took me over an hour and it was completely disgusting but it is clean now. The pile turned into 2 bags of cans, 2 bags of plastic bottles and three bags of burnable rubbish. Foreigners usually get blamed for causing problems like this and so it was funny to see the faces of my Japanese neighbours watching me in disbelief as I cleaned it.

After a long hot shower I felt human again and settled down to read my book. I finished reading Twilight last week and now I’m on book two; New Moon.