Haste Makes Waste

By Yuri Nishitani

The expression, “Haste makes waste,” is usually true. Here is a good example. I’m a member of the ballroom dance club, so I participated in a training camp last summer. The first day’s meeting time was 8:00 a.m. at Kansai Gaidai College. I left my house at 7:20 a.m. and waited for a bus. A bus hadn’t come. Unfortunately, a time schedule of the bus had changed becauise it was Bon (a Japanese Buddhist festival that takes place in August, when people show respect to the dead). After I noticed it, I walked to the college with my heavy bad so as not to be late. After a few minutes, a bus passed me. I didn’t have to walk!