CHAPTER 7.
I might never come back to these lands again. I had to take advantage of the time I had left to get to know a bit about it, because surely when I got home, to my family, so far away from here, they would ask me, “What was it like?”
I couldn’t believe it, I was at the other side of the world, I had made such a long journey. How could there be people who said it had been fantastic?
I spent almost the entire time being seasick, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t get used to that constant swaying motion of the boat, it just wouldn’t stop day or night, and those three stormy days, I don’t even want to think about them.
Given how big the ship seemed to me when I was climbing that steep ladder, holding on for dear life, feeling a pinch in my stomach, looking at the sea und
