The Boy Who Is International Student's Journal

Desert Island(無人島日記ばーじょん)

Feb 14, 2006. I straggled into a desert island. Why was I so unlucky although today was my birthday!
When my family and I were enjoying sailing, somehow, I got lost myself. I can’t see anything except an oasis, a desert and a forest at the back. Fortunately, there are many animals, such as birds, fish which are eatable and so on. I had some food for emergency, so I would be able to live here for 10months.
I have a survival knife and a gun for self-defense. So that I can hunt the animal or I can cut the fruit or vegetable in the forest. By the way, I couldn’t expect that my second house would be the oasis. However I think my second house would be comfortable for me because we say ‘home is where you make it’.
Now I am going to sleep on the hammock which I had and connected with coconut tree.

Feb 20, 2006. Today was terribly hot. If I hadn’t bathed in a fountain of oasis, I would have been the mummified corpse! I was getting accustomed in the life of the desert island. Today I cooked a special meal which the ingredients are cactus, eggs from an unknown bird and chicken from the same bird as the former. First, I stir-flied cactus and the egg which was mixed yolk and albumen and chicken, then it is completion. That was rare taste, that taste was the first time for me.

March 3, 2006. Today is the girl’s festival. It is the festival for girls to wish their growth and welfare. The family celebrates for girls, to decorate the dolls, peach flowers (artificial, not real.), and the girls drink a sweet beverage made from fermented rice or sake lees.
Of course I can’t celebrate it and no one is here except me. I felt lonely and empty.
Today I made S.O.S sign with charcoal which I had already used. I hope I would be rescued as early as possible.

May 14, 2006. From today, it has been 3months from living here. I have been skinnier and I have stubble. I am attached to my second house and this island somehow. I woke up as usual and walk around here as usual, but today was something wrong.
I found a piece of paper and there was written something.
‘ For the next victim. I was living here and I was going to be killed many times by the white tiger. You should be careful and don’t go deep into the forest, there is white tiger’s lair. I hope you would find this and believe this. Written by Mr. Daisuke’
After I read it, I felt shiver and I regretted that I had gone near the lair. I thought that I should be more serious living here.

Jan 1st, 2007. No one had come here since I came. I’m going to be clean out of food.
Actually, I was chased by white tiger once. That was quite terrible story.
When I was taking a bunch of banana, it appeared. It growl at me and approached to me. Of course I escaped at the same time! It chased me and hounded me behind the coconut tree. That was my hero, yes, coconut! I went up that tree and I cut the coconut with survival knife and dropped coconut oil so that it couldn’t go up anymore. It seemed noticed it couldn’t go up. Finally, it gave up eating me!
Now I am recollecting the memory from I came here, when I was daydreaming, I woke from daydream from steam whistle. I shouted loudly as I can as. Fortunately, one of sailors noticed me and I was rescued! This is so happy new year since I was born.

D.A English 25/9 2006

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