No one's gonna tell your way.
The world is by far smaller than you expect.
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Last Thursday, as it is often the case in weekdays that I went for a cafe to enjoy books with fine beer. Just 2 glass of beer, 1 liter, but that brought me slightly drunken moment. In a meanwhile, flashback of 2 weeks staying in Japan coming up from the synapses. The moment, I recalled, that someone told me "Why haven't you been to Vienna even though you've already been in Budapest for 9 month?".
Then I opened my laptop, connected to WIFI, and rapidly booked the hostel for the next 2 days.
"short notice" Half of cafes in Budapest are Wireless available ones. Having been too accustomed with this envious condition, when I stayed in Tokyo I had experienced hardship to find the one. Starbacks to south gate of Shinjuku station is the only wifi cafe for me (my bluebird!), I went there 5 days long to send reports via internet.
So the next day, I got in a train. From the west station of Vienna, I headed for a hostel.
Usually I would ask some of my friends. This time, alone, but I didn't care.
It was snowing freezing night. In an avenue, an Asian guy with huge backpack caught my eyes. Like I always do, I tried to find a clue to distinguish whether he's Japanese or not by gazing his appearance (Even it turned out to be Japanese, usually I have ignored though....). I knew he was gazing me, and decided to walk through.
All of sudden, he casted a word to me. It was neither "Konnichiwa" nor "Sumimasen" but was "Seeeekooooooo?????". Amazed. He said again, "Seeeekooooooo?????" Who the hell knows my name?
Kanekom was there. 3 years ago we together went to China. Last time we've met was 1 and half year ago. He was being in his 20 days graduation trip in central Europe, didn't know that I am in Hungary for a traineeship. I also didn't know that he's in Europe.
We later realized the same train from Budapest we took. There are around 15 train lines between 2 cities. More than 30 hostels are in Vienna. But yes, he actually was going to stay in a hostel just one block away from mine, and found me in a completely strange street in Austria (the only country in this entire world a palace so called Belvedele exists).
Belvedele has special meaning. It is a nickname of The MC office of AIESEC in Japan (Kanekom was MCER last year). For sure we went there the next day(Here is the "kiss" drawn by Klimt). Old fellow, fine beer. That was precious moment.
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Sometime miracle happens.
Who's gonna say "No" to the possibility of Japan would win the next world cup then?
