日本文が後ろに続きます。
One day a postcard arrived at my flat inviting me to a party by an old boys and girls’ association of the high school to be held on 27 April this year at Takarazuka. I had never seen such kind of party by high school classmates before since the commencement ceremony 21 years before. I wanted to see how the people changed their faces and figures from what they had been in the high school age, so I replied to the sender that I was going to attend and booked airline tickets.
As the plane from Narita Airport to Osaka was to depart at 6.25 in the morning, and there were no trains to Narita from where I live early enough to catch the plane, I drove a car to the airport at midnight. I parked it in the car park to sleep until the terminal building opened.
ある日、家に１枚のハガキが届きました。見ると高校の同窓会の案内。同窓会なんてこれまでやったことなくて、卒業式以来21年ろくに顔も合わせたことがなかったので、21年でみんなどう変わってるか見てみたいということもあって、参加表明して飛行機のチケットも予約しました。
成田発大阪行の飛行機は朝6:25発で、間に合う電車がないので、クルマで成田まで行き、空港の駐車場に停めてターミナルビルが開くまで車中泊しました。
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