The Cold Summer and Hot Okinawa

Again, I woke up feeling cold and with a cold this morning.
Like I said yesterday, it was pretty cool yesterday and even cold last night, so I did pull my blankets to my neck and went to sleep but I guess it wasn’t good enough. And now I have a nice cold that keeps me absent-minded and my body sore.

After lunch I went to the drugstore and got some medicine for myself, but then the medicine’s side-effect gets me all sleepy. Woohoo, it’s only Thursday afternoon and I got another day and a half to go before the weekend.

The office’s got its A/C turned on so it is comfortable, but when I’m like this, half-asleep and the other half mindless, it’s not so good to be feeling nice and cozy in office. Well, all I can say and do is to get myself up straight and survive the remainder of this week, and rest during the weekend.

So, I was going to tell you about the rest of Okinawa, right.
After we went to see the noctiluca, we headed to the heliport on the island. Because these islands around here are so small, instead of having established big hospitals they have heliports and helicopters in case of emergency.
We were not there for emergency, but the heliport was one good hidden spot to see the stars cuz it was apart from the lights of houses (the whole island was never so bright during night to begin with). So we had chances to see the twinkles of the sea and then the twinkles of the sky in just a couple of hours. My daily life in Tokyo doesn’t allow me to really see the sky so vastly cuz the air isn’t so clean and the lights never go off, so I was really really moved by how gorgeous the stars were.

But gazing up at the dark sky with an exhausted body did make me get sleepy quickly. I was wondering somewhere in my mind if the ancient people had the same feeling every night, and as I pondered I got back to the inn, and soon fell deep in my sleep.

The following day, I got a great chance to spend half a day on a desert island. It was beautiful, but I felt like something was missing, and I soon realized what it was. It was the corals. There were corals around the island, but the shelves were obviously fewer than the place I was the previous day, and all white, meaning they were dead. A diver who stayed at the same inn told us that there are several causes that kill the corals, like rise in sea temperature and the emergence of a particular kind of starfish. He said the corals have been dying at a remarkable pace in the past several years.

So what happens to the sea when the corals die out? Let’s talk about that tomorrow. It’ll be a worldwide topic, I guess.

All right, off to bed. Ciao.