April 01, 2003
Transfer
The foot paths are empty. I lived through the considerable risk of frostbite.
And now come the insects.
I never realised how little insect life, or wild life for that matter New Zealand really has until I came here. We do have it, it's just smaller and harder to see.
When I arrived pink moths, of what I consider massive proportions, threw themselves at the street lights, leaving their carnage to flutter throughout the day. They glued themselves to footpaths and poles surrounding their moons.
The spiders sometimes are so big that I forget I'm not afraid of them. And when I saw my first dead fox in the middle of the road, I thought how much bigger they looked dead, instead of the pale streaking I'd seen earlier.
Japan was just so full of everything. People, houses, insects, roads. There were no quiet places. There are no quiet places, not like I'm used to. The people sitting in Tokyo still scare me. When I arrived, staying in a hotel opposite the Bladerunner building, I could only peek, take small glimpses. I had never felt so small, so tiny, so out of control.
Posted by Waspish at April 1, 2003 01:36 AM