Glasses👓 arrived from the Fukui Prefecture Eyeglass Association in Sabae—a whopping 100 pairs!
I started an eyeglass shop in Cebu!
Just kidding, but in Japan, when you think of eyeglasses, you think of Sabae in Fukui Prefecture.
The Fukui Prefecture Eyeglass Association in Sabae kindly selected and sent us 100 pairs of glasses from the many donated for the Glasses Memorial Service—perfect for Surushi’s knitters (women aged 30s to 60s). Thank you so much!
As you wear glasses, your prescription gradually changes and they stop fitting right. But it feels wrong to just throw them away…
Knowing they’ll be used again must make the glasses happy too. This is truly wonderful recycling.
The knitters at Cebu Workshop are thrilled to be picking out glasses 😉
Knitwear enthusiasts inevitably strain their eyes while knitting, and even if they need glasses, they’re expensive, so they rarely buy them.
We laid out all the glasses on the table so everyone could try on pairs to find the right fit. They all acted like they were in a fashion show, putting on glasses and striking poses… lol. It seems almost everyone found glasses with the right prescription.
Apparently frames are expensive here in the Philippines. One knitter who couldn’t quite find the right prescription glasses picked a pair with frames she liked and said she’d buy just the lenses when she saved up enough money.
Speaking of glasses, just a quick note about the glasses developed by Huawei.
The frames have built-in speakers and a microphone, pair with your smartphone or PC, let you work while listening to music, answer calls with a touch of the frame, and connect to Zoom audio when you sit at your PC.
To think you can enjoy hands-free music playback and calls with the same comfortable fit as regular glasses…
Well now, is it that I can’t keep up, or that I think we’re entering an interesting era…?
But still, when it comes to glasses, it’s got to be Sabae glasses!
