Run Faster Sherrie We Are Going To Die
27. August 2003 | en
The weekend:s plan was to go to Yufuin, but we woke
up to a dead heat and dead exhausted so we decided
climbing a volcano would not be a good idea.
Instead we thought we would go for a swim and into
Oita city. See a movie, keep group nudity down,
etc. Halfway to the pool John looks and me and goes
“its stopped being hot.” And it was true, in about 10
seconds the temp dropped about 10 degrees. we were
a little concerned. well John was, because the sky
clouded over and a storm was coming. I thought it
was since the air cleared, a good rain was needed,
and we could stop melting. When we were almost at
the pool we saw the lightening. It was orange and
zig zagged across the sky. Twice before a huge clap
of lighting and huge raindrops. John screamed something along the lines of fuck swimming save your
self and took off towards the house. The house
which was about 30 min away, When we got to the
lights the electricity was gone and John was rather
wild eyed. And then then the storm really began. The thunder and lightening began to crash everywhere, and it was literally focused on our house. I think it was 2 storms because it kept going form rain to not, and the thunder was going from one side to the other. I think the lightening struck the tennis courts about 100 metere from us at one point. Either way the storm was on top of us.
The result, John rapidly disapearing from sight as
he occasionally looked over his shoulder and screamed
“run faster Sherrie we are going to die.” And he meant
it. What scarred me more than anything else was how fast John was willing to leave me behind. Im numismatic and it was humid, I cant run. I felt like Piggy in Lord of the Flies. Sucks to my asmar.
Then John realized i knew were the keys were, and
he screamed at me to catch up so he can get inside.
Glad to see I have some value.
Once inside however I was fully ok, but poor John is
actually afraid of lightening. SO though he felt
better he didnt feel fully ok. So we videoed some of
the storm, and then it looked like it was stopping.
We put the camera down. And then the biggest clap
of lightening followed by thunder at the same
time made John hit the tatami mat. Just one scream and bang flat down. Oh I should not tease, but i
just couldn’t help it. He still makes fun of me for
screaming when I walked through a spider web, I
should be allowed this!
Anyway thats the past week. Now im back in school,
rather bored, as I have no idea what to do or where
to go. But i am paid for this.
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