Summer in the country

Summertime! My favorite season, coming in right behind spring, fall and winter. A typhoon is headed vaguely this way, it’s hot and muggy, and the bugs are bigger than ever. Summertime is what happens when it isn’t raining, which unfortunately is not very often. Trips to swimming holes, fireworks, snowcones covered with sweet beans, condensed milk and green tea syrup. Girls in yukatas with cellphones and iPods. Yes, lovely indeed. However, summertime this year for me will include– packing while sweating, teaching while sweating, performing the piano while sweating, trying to look respectable during farewell ceremonies while sweating (perhaps I can pass off the sweat as tears of sadness? Yes, I am that sad to be leaving you. I’ve been this sad to be leaving you since May!).

1 comment July 9th, 2006