| the old pond / frog jumps in / plop! – Matsuo |
This last weekend there was a traditional Chinese holiday called Dragon Boat Festival. Almost everyone gets to play hooky from school for it in China. As for me, I started a campfire with a koala bear.
After the wrap we celebrated with a cake and a lot of beer until the wee hours of the morning. It was then, during the zenith of my inebriated clarity, that I realised something. “I, too, am tipsy,” I slurred aloud in non-tonal Chinese to the twenty or twenty-five people in the room.
There was only numbness in my legs, with the occasional echo of pain deep within, which always whispered, “give up, you asshole.”
Our destination, Xi Xia (pronounced ‘she sha’), had been talked up ever since I arrived at site last year. “If Xi Xia was a boy he’d be my boyfriend <3.” – back-side of a note passed to me by student.
In total I drank sixteen or seventeen small cups of the clear, fiery liquor with an assortment of Chinese wedding people.
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