Miyaco
San/Carlos Pueblo
First day
afternoon on board at deck 12 Garden Café, I saw a familiar face cleaning
the table.
It’s Miyaco San of the Jade, a Filipino with a Japanese surname yet doesn’t
speak a word
of Japanese. He immediately recognized me from the old spring days
of 2016 from
the port of Houston across the Atlantic. The last farewell was at the
shuttle bus
of Barcelona port to the Columbus Circle. I was worried that he wore
so little at
a cold spring day. Ever since, I have been trying to track him down from
every cruise
that I have been on board. My last one was on Jade, Michael of the
Jasmine
Restaurant told me that he was with the Star in Europe. He told me that
Star was his
previous contract.
I was at
deck 8 24 hours restaurant with my brother-in-law and his friends to have
buffalo wings
and fish chips. A young man from Oklahoma spoke Japanese to answer
my Spanish
and I responded in Japanese accordingly and made a lot of fun. Suddenly,
the waiter
from behind push another shy waiter forward. His last name was Miyaco
and I
immediately greeted him Miyaco San and conbanwa. The other waiter explained
that this
man couldn’t speak a word of Japanese even though he had had a Japanese
name. He
explained that was his grandfather’s surname and I guessed based on his out
look that his
grandfather should be in the Japanese Army went in to Philippine in 1942.
After the
war, he stayed in Philippine and married a local girl who was Miyaco San’s
grandmother.
He used to work at another cruise liner in Europe and just joined this
company for
its European operation. He has a son aged 16 under his brother’s care
at home and
will go to college next year. This work is all for his son.
I remember him
very well, a very polite manners and hardworking youngster. I even
attempted to
be a match maker for him, he is a widower. I carried my cameras all the
time on
board and one day he was on duty at deck 12 pools area, I asked a fellow
passenger to
take photo for both of us together and explained how hard I had tried to
locate him
and the passenger appreciated.
My daughter
on board Raquel asked me if I adopted him as my son, I replied that if
any of my
daughter married him later, he could become my son-in-law. I have had such
a good time
to be associated with so many hardworking and polite nature staff on board
and I feel
so much kinship with the ship; therefore, I am going back this ship on Sunday
on the 28th.
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