Shean & Jenny
Snackpark

The night feels colder with rain and thunder that continues to strike. I remember a bad thing when the ship I was on was destroyed by a storm but it was much worse than tonight.

I remember all the terrible events of that time, everyone died instantly because of the big waves that hit the ship in the middle of a big storm. Somehow the story I survived a difficult situation at that time.

If I remember, even then I had resigned, it might have been the last day I could breathe air and remember Elaine's face for the last time.

Luckily I was able to survive and it took two days floating in the ocean until I finally found this island with the results of the earth that I thought was like in heaven. Because for a researcher of herbs, I feel like I'm stuck somewhere that seems special to me.

All the exotic plants that I did not encounter in my country were here, and sometimes this little heart gave me a little thanks for being given the opportunity to be here and not just research, I enjoy everything too.

Despite the dangers that followed me like wild animals and venomous snakes, this place was absolutely perfect.

When I was here for a few days, I still took refuge with the headstones I had piled up to become a shelter, but it did not last long. Fortunately there was a cave that could be my shelter from bad weather, if I was still by the beach I might have died of hypothermia because it would not be possible to light a fireplace in the middle of a storm.

Although a little stuffy because of the smoke, but this is much better, in order to keep the body warm at night craze like now, for the sake of keeping the body warm, I'm not going to protest just because a little bit of smoke from the firewood is still wet.

I enjoyed my catch this morning, two black-colored snapper I burned with a little touch of wild spices I could find in the forest, ginger, ginger, turmeric and also black pepper that grew wildly propagated on the trunks of trees that I climbed a few days ago.

I began to understand the situation, after 3 months on the island, it turned out I was in a tropical archipelago that was passed by the equatorial latitude with a season divided into two, which is the most important, rainy season and summer and at this time it is rainy season.

Based on the types of plants I began to know if this is still an Asian region, typical with some spices that I often use to flavor food. In France I could not find a spice plant as good as here, and a great story developed among merchants, he said, if some of the spices sold in the market are the products developed by the Dutch colonial in other countries and distributed throughout Europe.

Maybe, this island is not far from the place, and I was a little hoping that someday there will be a boat that passes and anchored here.

“Hopefully..” whispered to me.

Every day I record what I do, also researching the herbs found in the forest. I will not tell you more about this place because it is too dangerous, 4 notebooks that I have only record the symbols that are in the inner cave, the insides of the cave, the rest is just about my grievances and my daily life on this island and my feelings that are far adrift with Elaine.

I did not record the discoveries I saw in the cave because if the record falls into the hands of an irresponsible and ill-intentioned person, it becomes my greatest sin, and I don't want anyone else to do anything bad because of this record of mine.

Let me keep this in the memory of my own head without anyone knowing, and when someone comes to save me here, I just think about getting back into Elaine's arms far away.

There is a blessing in itself from the rain, the water is very delicious to drink different from brackish river water and less good for the body if drunk too often.

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Time goes by slowly if you are bored. I can even count the number of lightning explosions that I have so far counted 41 times due to the boredom that I continue to feel.

No friends nothing but myself, maybe different if there's a tame dog I can keep here. At least he could bark if I spoke to him, the matter of us understanding each other's chatter is something that need not be discussed, let's just say I understand dog language and he understands human language.

All I can find so far are tigers, snakes and monkeys. They are not friendly living beings with species other than themselves, so I have no intention to familiarize myself and blend in with my countrymen.

But I respect those creatures because they were my seniors in this place, long before I set foot on this island, they have been breeding for tens or possibly hundreds of years occupying the island and living far from the highest food chain that is humans.

My mind began to drift in uncertain directions, remembering about Elaine and about my family history. How wonderful it would be to hear Grandfather's story that I am part of a great descendant of the French empire, but alienated because of the vile political influence that later overthrew the kingdom and changed into a democracy.

If I had lived in those days, I would have fought back, refusing to give myself up for exile to a remote region. Crazy one! politics is crazy, and everyone in the government is a bunch of power-hungry lunatics piling up their golden coffers for the afterlife.

Maybe also they with his gold money can bribe angels to take away lives in order to live forever and keep the treasure, have fun with the concubines multiply offspring then history repeats continuously.

But the world is no longer the same, the people need and demand justice. From one thought to another and encouraged by resentment, oppressed continuously by the ruler, there was a revolution ignited by a tragedy and caused a massive resistance that resulted in the destruction of the royal order, nothing can stop the will of the people, there will be no.

The world has gone mad ever since, the structure of the government has intensively reformed the system, correcting all the mistakes that have occurred during the kingdom to form a more advanced society.

Even plant research like me can feel the change, many times I get the opportunity to present my findings to other researchers. Although there are still acts of discrimination but I do not ignore, for me this is my way of life to live what I am good at and I like.

Even on that voyage I was able to join the researchers and was proud to be part of the great people who also participated because of the decree of the government, even though it ended tragically.

"God take care of Elaine for me" I prayed at the end of the night before this drowsiness struck me and put me into a deep sleep.

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