Absolutely do not make camp by standing water!!! 
We will get malaria and die! Also standing water is not safe to drink The survival tips said building a wooden shelter (or treehouse idk i wasnt looking up that many words at that point) is best so we should def head for the trees.
I like scrolling the vocab lists you all post and seeing how many I can remember 
Veteran Survivor Oracle!!!
Me, too!!
I feel like it’s helping me learn it more strongly
太平洋を泳ぎぬけ - Escape from the Pacific Ocean!We peak out of the raft into the clear night sky. 
We don’t see any sea creatures that might have hit the boat. But looking out over the crest of the next wave .. it looks like an island in the distance! It’s not too far and we manage to row to the shore. 
We can’t see a lot and just manage to pull the raft all the way to the top of the beach and we settle in to sleep in the raft. 
The next mowing we wake up with the sun and birds. We’re in a rocky cove! Looking around, we see the other side of the island is forested. Let’s see if we can set up camp somewhere less exposed and away from the pools of standing water
See you at scene 
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scene 82
…幹 (みき tree trunk WK23)
…早速 (さっそく at once, immediately, without delay, right away, right now WK10)
…ヘビ (snake) が 潜む (ひそむ to lurk, lie dormant WK41)…I like snakes hissing like this…
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…叩く (たたく to tap, strike, hit, knock, beat WK18)
…確かめる (たしかめる to make sure of, verify/confirm WK22)
…地面 (じめん ground, earth’s surface WK16)
…分厚い (ぶあつい thick, bulky; massive, heavy Anime Top 14K, News Top 22K)
…敷く (しく to spread out, lay out WK40)
…敷き詰める (しきつめる to cover a surface, to spread all over, to blanket, to lay News Top 20K “敷spread40–詰stuffed29”)
…a かわいた毛布 isn’t “a cute blanket”, it’s “a dry blanket”, 乾く (かわく to get dry, to become dry, to be dried WK29) てform: 乾いて; たform: 乾いた…
…OMG, I didn’t expect THIS to be “a thing”:
.. 我ながら (われながら “If I do say so myself!” Anime, News Top 20K)
…出来栄え (できばえ result/effect; performance, success; workmanship Anime Top 26K, News Top 13K “栄prosper/flourish25”)
…休憩 (きゅうけい rest, break, recess, intermission N3 Anime, News Top 4K WK47)
SCENE 91
…真水 (まみず fresh water News Top 20K)
…海水淡水化 (かいすいたんすいか desalination; converting salt water to fresh water) … See 淡水 (たんすい fresh water WK49)
…辺り (あたり area, vicinity, neighborhood WK8)
…あたりを見回す (みまわす to look around, to survey News Top 23K)
…端 (はし edge, end, corner WK27)
…囲む (かこむ to surround, enclose WK14) →→ かこまれた enclosed?
…水溜まり (みずたまり puddle, pool of water Anime, News Top 19K) but twice in this book just since I started reading it a few weeks ago…
…いくつも (many, much, plenty; w/neg.: hardly any )
L.O.L. … I was messing around, flipping around the book, and ended up learning about
…多臓器不全 (たぞうきふぜん Multiple Organ Failure, “MOF”) “MotherF–!” 
I’ve been in Japan, and I’ve seen people eat raw seafood (for example, oysters). But I know that Jews are forbidden from eating “shellfish”, which this 貝(かい) qualifies as… And I suspect that the law came about in times of low- to no-refrigeration due to a high incidence of food poisoning. …
…I appreciate that shellfish, like bottom-feeding catfish, tend to consume and concentrate ocean floor icky stuff… But I still LOVE shrimp, etc. I don’t recognize this shellfish, but I haven’t heard of any downright “poisonous” ones (like blowfish)…
… So I can’t really tell, but I’m hoping that both options involve picking up a few of these shellfish?
… Either way, night is coming soon and we need a SIGNAL FIRE, as well as fire for warmth, as well as fire for cooking… And I WILL eat cooked shellfish (after removing the guts)…
…I can probably come back and get more of these tomorrow/later?
… So I guess that means I choose Scene 33.
thought I’d try something for fun… renshuu is testing out a new pdf output and since this is the vocab from the bookclub thread
not really sure if the qr code works and haven’t checked/tested this but something people may wanna do for fun… enjoy
realize only gave the “english” version.
…this is the same crossword with the kanji instead of the english clues
because you could lookup readings - probably way easier than going from the english version
Eating raw shellfish may be OK in a restaurant setting, but in the wild? Sounds risky. Besides, we need fire to get warm during the night too. Let’s build a fire first, and then cook the shells.
The crossword puzzle is such a fun idea! Is there a fixed link? I’m old school and have no idea how to go from a qr code image on my tablet to the link…
That CW functionality is SOOoo Awesome スゴイ!
go to the site and then build a schedule for the vocab
however, I posted this because I’m a pro member thought some people might find it fun to do
Renshuu is a free service but a few things like custom crosswords from your own vocab schedules are a paid feature.
If you are a pro user you can go to your account and then click on the schedule
from there you can do the puzzle online as well (on your phone or tablet)
This PDF with everything neatly on a single page is a new feature (maybe still buggy) but for pro members can now export that PDF and load onto a tablet or kindle or whatever and write directly on them. You can still use the older exporting methods but it wasn’t as clean.
If someone really wants to go with renshuu pro their lifetime is super cheap compared to others that has the link with the difference between the free and paid. They do have sales every so often, think I got my lifetime pro for around 100-110 bucks a while back.
You don’t need to go pro though to use the regular study stuff… you can use the standard tools for kanji, grammar, vocab basically free. This is why I built the vocab and sentences in renshuu…the info is there and not locked behind a paywall.
Fascinating! I have a friend who has been doing Renshuu for 2 years and loves it…
Decision: I joined Renshuu Pro 
I am not a fan of eating raw things, so I vote 
tbf, most of the ways shellfish kill you doesn’t matter whether they’re cooked or not, but I still voted for fire.
I love an oyster in the half shell, but you need some vinegar and shallots to slurp them up with
I’m mostly thinking ew and agreeing with you all 
太平洋を泳ぎぬけ - Escape from the Pacific Ocean!We wander around and find a big crooked tree to build a fort and incorporate our raft into it. Shelter 
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we’re getting more hungry… but we only see a bunch of shellfish, maybe we’re not that desperate. Let’s build a fire and see if we can come up with ideas involving cooking!
See you at scene 
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Uh oh, I think I tripped and fell in the puddle on my way to our shelter. Be there shortly!
Bring extra firewood!
¿Porque no los dos?
Seriously, if fishing is going to take a long time, but it’s easy to catch crickets (grasshoppers? I honestly don’t know the difference between all of these in English ), grab some for a snack, go try and catch fish, and hopefully you’ll get both.
That said, I picked the insects bc apparently we have so much to do on our deserted island we don’t have the time to be sourcing two types of food 
Eating insects is definitely fine in a survival scenario. I vote insects because who knows, if we try to go fishing we may be waylaid by some other random disaster on the way.
Also, I would have voted eat the shellfish
Gathering my inner Bear Grylls and gonna eat the crickets 
