Comments | xandi: fear on the ferry

xandi

fear on the ferry

Jul 14, 2006 12:12

After nine days in Kansai, I boarded the ferry for Ehime last night. I checked into a nitei shitsu with a 9 o'clock meal of sesame spinach, salmon rice ball and burdock root. Then, at 9:30, I took a bath. Halfway through washing my hair, the boat turned up on its side. The steamy water from the bath flowed over the edge, into the washing area. At ( Read more... )

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haircute July 14 2006, 04:50:09 UTC

Goodness. I thought "Man, this is a cute story about sesame spinach and hair washing." But then the ferry tipped over and my heart skipped a beat. Glad you made it out alive!

jinxremoving July 14 2006, 09:58:29 UTC

it turned up on its side?!! whoa.

jinxremoving July 18 2006, 04:56:44 UTC

well.... i'm not sure what it did exactly. for those of us in the bathing room it felt like it was turning up on its side. all the grandmas stopped their soaping and were staring out the window, which seemed completely pointless to me. my friend rob said that maybe they were waiting to see if the stars would appear 'cause if they did then we'd really know that we had tipped.

when i finished my bath, i wanted to go outside and ask everyone else on the boat if they had felt it. that public-bath-fish-bowl-room is such a unique spot on the ferry--maybe the tipping wasn't even noticable to everyone else. i've no idea.

soraljuset July 16 2006, 12:31:34 UTC

holy jesus. reconsidering taking the ferry next Thursday night...

i suppose i should have thought of that. the typhoon (just spent twenty seconds trying to figure out how to spell that in english...) in Okinawa a week ago was probably creeping up Japan-ways and hit us by the time you were on that ferry.

maybe that's what all this rain is about. someone mentioned an incoming typhoon.

anyway. feelings of responsibility for freak natural disasters aside, i'm glad you're alright.

it is so very weird to think of Shikoku as "over there," and here as base...

if i make it as far as Matsuyama (???), i'll bring your textbook yo. i can always leave it at English Academy, around the corner from Starbucks and Laforet, if that's a convenient location.

soraljuset July 18 2006, 04:47:35 UTC

i didn't even realize that i was in the middle of a taifu--that would make a lot of sense though.

if you don't make it to matsuyama that's fine. i can pick it up from hiroshi's on my way out of the country i suppose. something'll work out ne.

xandi July 18 2006, 04:49:19 UTC

and, of course, english academy would also be fine. it'd be interesting to see where you worked anyway.

kyooverse July 18 2006, 08:29:50 UTC

Adventure is grand, ne?

xandi July 19 2006, 01:12:54 UTC

grand? i suppose being scared for my life is more fun than being scared for my career...

kyooverse July 19 2006, 01:24:12 UTC

GRAND... got your heartbeat going. Not that it should happen THAT often, but... it was fun (for me) to be tripping alongside your naked (hee) thoughts.