トロントの地下鉄は３つの線しかない。
中１までいわゆる鉄ちゃんだった僕には少し物足りない路線の数だ。
保育園の年長さんの頃、近鉄奈良線の駅名を暗記して得意気にしていたことを思い出す。
トロントの地下鉄の駅名全てを書けともし言われたら、９割５分方書けそうな気がする。
僕の利用する地下鉄はBloor-Danforth Line。会社もこのライン上にある。僕の最近の生活のほとんどがこのラインで済まされてしまう。
今日は友人と会うべく、Bloor-Danforth LineのBathurst駅で待ち合わせ。行き先はKorea Town。石鍋で炊かれたご飯と（またもや）スンドゥブを昼食に食べた。その後近くの韓国食料品スーパー（日本のものもおいてある）へ行き麦茶パックを買い、Tim Hortonでコーヒーとドーナツを食べた。
僕はいろんなことを気ままに語れるこの友人が大好きで、気がつくと以前の職場で知り合ってから結構な年月が経っている。今日も話に夢中になり、気がつくともう５時になっていた。
Spadina駅まで歩き、友達は東、僕は西、地下鉄に乗って帰った。
There are only 3 subway lines in Toronto.
The number of the subway lines are not really satisfactory for me as a trainspotter-used-to-be when I was in the first year in junior high.
When I was a senior kindergartener in the child care centre, I memorised all of the station names on Kintetsu Nara Line (a commuter rail line in Osaka) and I was pretty proud of myself.
If I am asked to write all of the stations name in Toronto, I would probably be able to write 95% of the stations.
The line that I use often is Bloor-Danforth Line. The place where I work is located on the same line. My everyday life can be completed on this Bloor-Danforth line only lately.
I went to Bathurst station to meet my friend today. The destination is Korea Town. We had lunch at a restaurant that serves steamed rice in a stone pot and Korean stews. We then went to a Korean supermarket (they have Japanese stuff as well) nearby. I bought tea bags of barley tea there. After that we had coffee at Tim Horton's.
I really like this friend of mine with whom I can talk about various kinds of topics with no hesitation. It's been quite long time since I met her at my previous employment. I had so much fun of talking to her then, it was already 5 p.m. when we realised.
We walked to Spadina station. She took eastbound and I took westbound on the subway home.
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