A big earthquake, and something even worse…
This morning I was greeted at six thirty by a nice and slow shake… It was one of those that don’t really worry you that much, but my new apartment’s structure makes a lot of noise when it is shaking, so it served to wake me up.
The shake, albeit weak, was rather long. Checking the earthquake info site, I found out that it was actually a strong quake deep in the sea, which mean most of northern japan felt it to some degree (but no where more than a 3). Nice.
After waking up, I put out the trash, prepared breakfast, took my bath, the usual… When I was about to live for school, there were two old japanese men waiting on the outside, dressed in suits and carrying briefcases full of papers… they saw me and started talking, asking if I had any problems, if the earthquake was too terrible.
It was quite confusing until they told me they had the solution to all my problems: JESUS CHRIST! Then I noticed one of the old men were carrying a bible, and the papers they were carrying were those church propaganda leaflets. It turned out they were Jehovah witnesses on their morning converting rounds. Oh well…
It was interesting, though, they were quite shy about what they were doing, unlike their brazillian counterparts. In Brazil, also, mostly old ladies, not old men, go around the houses in the morning distributing leaflets… finally, the most amazing thing is, although the leaflets were all in japanese, all the pictures sported very blonde, very blue eyed gaijin in them.
Well, I think it was bound to happen once I moved into a proper home, but it still caught me somewhat surprised… 
November 15th, 2005 at 6:51 pm
Oi Claus!
Pois é, pregação até aqui no Japão…. Também fiquei surpresa quando duas (ou eram três) moças de uns 20 anos mais ou menos vieram com essa conversa no trem quando eu estava em Osaka, acho. Realmente era uma coisa que eu não esperava crentes interrogando a gente aqui… Acho que o fenômeno deve ser mundial mesmo!!
Ps.: Finalmente to postando do meu micro!!!!:-)
November 20th, 2005 at 8:17 pm
a moda agora aki, é nas paradas de onibus e nos sinais…. e voce nao tem como correr!!!!! LOL!
December 15th, 2005 at 8:33 am
Não deve nada ser divertido acordar balançando, acho que isso iria prejudicar bastante meu humor. Mas parece que você enfrenta bem.
Você já pensou se estivesse dormindo em um colchão de água, iria acordar mareado. :))
Agora um assalto(abordagem) de um grupo de evagelizadores, realmente é algo bem mais violento, e pela sua descrição vi que você é muito corajoso, consequiu até olhar os papeis, eu acho que eu ia correr na mesma hora. :))
[]’s Ferdi.