Our New House

On Saturday, July 4 we moved into a new house. The new house is in the municipal apartment with twelve floors. It is not so far from our old house. We live on the tenth floor. Thought the view from our house is splendid, there are some drawbacks.

First of all, it is very noisy. My house is close to Kumamoto station which is under construction for Kyusyu Shinkansen. Around the station many houses and buildings are being taken down and built. New roads are being built too. More over our house is next to the railroads. Various trains run all day. The freight trains are more the most troublesome. They are very very very long and it takes so much time to pass by. They often run late at night. We can not sleep well everyday. (To tell the truth I sleep enough.)

The second drawbacks are wind and rain. The winds blow hard and it is hard for us to open the front door. Sometimes we are almost blown away by the strong wind. The rainy days are miserable. The winds drive the rain and inundate the outside of the front door. The umbrella is useless when the wind is strong. I feel like crying on rainy days.

Thirdly our house is hard to reach by public transportation. Bus service is available in our neighborhood, but buses do not run frequently. So we usually use streetcars. It takes about ten minutes to near by streetcar stop. It took about five minutes to Kumamoto station from our old house, but it takes about 15 minutes from our new house. The road in front of our new house is always very crowded. We can not leave home easily by car. We become impatient when we do not have much time.

I hope we will acclimate ourselves to the new house soon.

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