I am in the car, driving lesson.
My friend Shane is behind the wheel and Aya and one more girl (I don't remember, Haruka?) are in the back seat as well, me next to Shane. And somehow a driving coach is on board and supervising the driving skills.
We are in a small town with some deserted countryside so the roads and situation are varied.
Shane was very good, but in the very narrow steep down hill he had to pull off to the side because he couldn't pull the brake well, we were all scared if we are falling from the narrow road into the hedge.
A place change:
I am now on the back seat and someone is driving (a lady) I just enjoy the scenery we pass.
It's by the sea and endless field by the sea.
Somehow the scene from the window is very high as if I'm on the up deck of a double decker bus. I spot some wild horses running around, very hairy ones.
The driver tries to U-turn and I say "oh, please stop by if you can so I can take photos of them"
The lady says Ok, so I took my camera out, and find out they are unicorns! I can see the single horn sticking out from their head.
A place change:
I am now walking with my mom in the countryside of Hiroshima, somehow connected from the field I spotted the unicorns.
We walk by the water channel which leads to the sea towards where we are walking.
This is Kure, Hirohsima, where my mom was brought up and I spent some summers here, I was born here too.
My mom walks with confidence as she knows the place so well, I follow her and started to recognize and feel "Ah this is good old Kure" and feel nostalgia. We could smell the salty sea.
A place change:
Now I am at my grand parents house in Kure, my mom prepared dinner and gone out.
There are, Haruka, Aya, my cousin Asako, my grandma from Kure and my other grandma from Osaka (my dad's mom) in the room.
Haruka and Aya are wearing school uniform so my grandmas can see, but I'm not, so I say thanks to them. Haruka's one are from high school in China, Aya's ones are the same I had in my high school.
I put the dishes together so we can all eat at a table.
We start eating, grandma had some special dishes just for them prepared, some beautiful looking fish dishes. I serve them and they enjoy.
I noticed a cooker, a fire, was left on, so I stood and switch off.
Kure grandma is eating "Saba no Nikomi"(stewed mackerel in soya sauce) and she doesn't notice she is spilling the juice on her shoulder as she bites. I took some tissue out and wipe for her discreetly, thinking and knowing she wouldn't like to be treated like a baby or an old woman. She says "oh no I didn't know.. thanks" and keeps eating.
End:
She loved fish and always used to get the freshest fish caught on the same day when we visited her. She could just walk and find a fisherman in the neighborhood. It was such a small town where we used to walk to the sea after dinner and stare at the stars, we could hear the neighboring TV sound of baseball matches, Tofu selling people in bicycle.
I've never lived anywhere what we can call a "countryside" or a "village", so my summer time spent in Kure was so precious and memorable.
I love dreaming and seeing my Kure grandma in my dreams, she passed 12 years ago just after I moved to UK, and ever since that she appears in my dream so much I have to one day present "best supporting actress" award. :)
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