During the 12hours trip, I sat with 3 other passengers in the box seat.
One lady next to me, one girl on the other side, and a man in front.
Until then, we were all stuck on screen as I wrote in the previous article.
"Ok ok, this is the way we travel in 2010, no one wanna make friends on the train, and just watch screen(including me)"
But I was a little bit tired with reading Kindle, and shifted to read usual paper book.
And a girl in front gazed at me for a few seconds and said, "Can you read Japanese too?" since she already saw I was reading Mainichi Daily English version on Kindle.
"Of course, since I'm from Japan" I replied, with poor Chinese.
"Where you from?"she asked(which is a often used phrase even among Chinese)
"You didn't hear what I said? I am from Japan, and I am Japanese" I replied.
"What!? You from Japan? Hey guys, there's Japanese over here!" She all of a sudden screamed and said to the other passengers surrounded by. All the eyes in the coach turned into me, and she said,
"Can I take a video of you? I wanna show it to my friends" and started to take video by her
cell-phone.
No wait... this is not the world's end nor South Africa, rather I'm in one of the closest country from Japan.
"There must be so many Japanese in Hangzhou, right?" I said.
She replied,"There are some, but not so many Chinese-like Japanese like you!"
Ok, ok, I gave up and let her take video for minutes.
In the end, the man in front of me said, "Japanese must have so much money, why are you using this kind of seat for poor people?"
Again stupid stereotype, you see poor Japanese tourist right in front of you...
Well, it's exhausting, but very fun trip in midnight...