The third Sunday of every month is Building Clean (BC) up day (this excites me to no end /sarcasm.) BC is SUPPOSED to start at 7 AM. 7 AM! Unfortunately, the other tenants cannot tell time, so they usually start around 6:45 AM and finish at 7 AM. In an effort to fit in and avoid the $ 10 U.S.D. fine, I comply.

Individual floor BC consists of a) sweeping around the elevator, b) sweeping the stairwell, c) mopping the areas from a and b. Grounds BC consists of a) standing around, b) standing around and talking, c) sweeping the same leaf from one end of the road to the other, d) complaining while standing around, e) spreading gossip while picking at the same weed (not the smokeable kind) for 10 mins – poor weed, f) sweeping garbage into the bushes, g) avoiding the gaijin, h) making several circuits around the building asking if anyone needs help, and i) sweeping up a bunch of garbage, hunting down a dustpan, hunting down a bag or someone holding a bag, taking bag, or person with bag, back to the garbage you have swept up neatly, depositing garbage into bag, finding someone who needs help, helping them with whatever they are doing, and then heading upstairs once everything is done. Once upstairs, lift all heavy items for the senior citizens (cannot let them injury their delicate backs), mop, clean mops, and then bail back to your apartment and blog about BC on Tokyo.Metblogs.