We finished cooking everything and I don’t feel tired that much because Eli and her mother did all the cooking. Then I help them pack the food in wooden lunchboxes. The contents are mostly sushi and curry. And they smell wonderful, making me hungry by the minute. Her mother said that we have to pack these fast so that we can give them away before they get cold. Because of that, we finish packing them before dusk. We have like four dozen of these boxes and we have to go back and forth because we can’t carry them all. Mr. Tokunaga stayed inside because it’s gonna be tedious for him. Sora stayed with him. Right now, Eli and I carry the boxes while we follow her mother—who greets and hands over the boxes to every family around the neighborhood. Eli talks to them too and I guess she and her m

