Hi everyone,
So I have a lot of challenges ahead of me, I'm curious if anyone has any pointers for overcoming some of the practical ones...and maaaybe some of the emotional ones.
My biggest practical issues are:
* no local pools allowing fins, nearest fin-friendly location over an hour away.
* no local mer-friends to help me with the basics.
* no local fin swimming groups (also over an hour away, might be inactive now).
I live abroad in Japan (near Tokyo) and there simply aren't any pods, mermaid schools, meet-ups or anything mermaid related for me to attend. I can't even find a pirate festival or renaissance festival. *sigh* The closest I've found was a one-time thing you can do in Okinawa where you dress up as a mermaid and do a photoshoot, but that's a plane trip away from me and wouldn't be regular thing obviously.
My only ideas for what I can do for now are taking swimming lessons to become a stronger and more confident swimmer without fins, and to develop my mersona by buying a fabric fin and some accessories and going from there. Maybe I could try dry-gigs, but I wish I could swim SO badly!!
Thanks so much! Any tips or advice are greatly appreciated.
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