her alarm went on at 6:00am I knew it was early because it was still dark outside. Then it went on again at 6:30. I was like “come on! you don’t need that do you?” but of course I couldn’t say that anyway. I got up at 7:30. They were still asleep. I hopped in a shower then started to do my washing. It said 47 which means that it’s gonna take 47 minutes to get it done. It was 15 past 8.. that means I’m not gonna get it done to get there on time. Well I had to. They got up and getting ready. Sm’s sister was going to catch a bus to get home. I said that she can have lunch with us at least. I told then that I would be 5 minutes late.
It was sort of good because I didn’t wanna go with them, I mean I didn’t want them to know that they stayed here, well, sort of..
I was gonna get some cake on the way but the bakery was closed, well it was open but the door was locked..I was running late so I rushed to get there and I was there at 10 past 9 ..well I was the first one.. the meeting might be long so I said “I’ll be back in 5 minutes “
And went out to get something. The bakery was open and I bought bread and cheese cake. She gave me a big discount again.
Sm came with her sister. She was waiting in the library.
Met Tf for the first time. So it was finally 5 artists there. Mr.S and Si were there too.
Started meeting with talking about general problems in living. No one said anything which was funny. Everybody was complaining and that’s why some people had left but they say nothing.. I was asked if there is any problems and I said no, which was true..well almost.
Sue had to say that it wasn’t enough money for food etc. They talked about it for 10 minuets and decided to get some more money to spend. I didn’t really care about this cause I had no idea how much we could spend and how much actually it is.
Then cha asked how we were going with our work. This was funny again cause I knew some people are not doing anything. I talked the most here.
Then Mr.S started to talk about the town he went to recently. The town was a redevelopment area. He was talking about how successful they were etc which went on and on and some people had to stand up and stretch. I was folding paper there so it was okay.
Then we talked about the exhibition. Everybody was happy with the dates etc. we decided where we were going to use etc.
Mr. S stood up and talked about lunch. He had to go somewhere but he was paying for us.
Tf was on Si’s motor bike and I was asked to get on Sm’s car. I said “how about other people?” well they all got on. There were 4 people on the back seat.
The place was packed we had to wait for them to clear the table. The food came one after another. Many of them had meat and I couldn’t eat most of them and they felt bad..
Went back to the camp. Sm sister decided to leave and they were gonna wonder for a couple of hours. I said that I would be here working a bit. Well, she came back right away. They just went straight to the bus stop. That means I had to go home with her..well she doesn’t know where the house key was and I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to tell her. Went back home and I told Sm that I would work on my writing a bit. She was in the livingroom calling some people. Kam came right away. I was asked to join them. I said that I was fine writing in my room. It was quite long ..more than 2 hours? They were just talking and talking. I knew they were gossiping about people I knew and I was glad that I didn’t understand what they were saying. The phone rung and Kas answered. Well, I never answer the phone..i mean I can’t..
It was already 5pm Iva’s workshop was from 4 which I wanted to attend but I couldn’t leave them there..I told them that I was going out and asked if there are any good place I can go and take some photos in other words “do you wanna go out?” they said maybe we can go to see this old lady making hand made soy source. I said ok let’s go.
She was doing something in front of the shop. When she saw us she stood up and said please sit down and disappeared. She came back in 5 minutes with a bowl of something. It was roasted peanuts.
I didn’t know what to talk at first. I thought we were gonna see her making soy source. I asked how long it’s gonna take etc. She could speak Japanese but it was a bit limited. I asked her if could take a photo of her. She said wait and combed her hair. We were about to leave after taking some photos. she said she has some photos to show us. It was amazing she had those old photos I had seen only on TV etc. In her elementary school photos, there were some Japanese teachers. All the students were girl and they had exactly the same hair style. The photo looked old but wasn’t old.. she found out that her classmate had the photo still when they had school reunion and she made a copy of it. She also does Japanese dance and had some photos of her in kimono. She said that she made them cause they are so expensive to buy. I asked her to come to see our exhibition and left there.
We saw some kind of parade on the way. I wanted to take photos but just missed it. I asked Sm if she was staying one more night and she said she doesn’t know yet. I suggested that Sm take her bags with her anyway so that she doesn’t come back here and I don’t either.
We went back to the camp. There were so many kids there running around. Iva was about to start her presentation. I wanted to grab something to eat there but I didn’t know what was in. They were doing BBQ there as well but I didn’t see a spot. Sm grabbed some fish and put it there. Sue came back and she was cooking in a kitchen. She was using the leftover from lunch and also stealing some food from the BBQ area. It was funny.
Iva’s presentation started. I had seen some of her works they were quite interesting. Sm said the fish was ready. I totally forgot about it. Thanks! Her presentation was pretty long she was showing some other artists work as well. Sometimes the projector stopped working so they were tapping on it.
Then soon after Tf started hers. It was documentary. I thought it was her work but it wasn’t. I didn’t realize that it was in English and had Chinese subtitle. There weren’t many people watching it. When I realize it was only 5 of us. Sm said that she decided to leave and Iva heard that. she sounded so excited and I wasn’t sure what they were talking about. Well it was that Iva can get a lift to Tai chung. It was nice to see them getting along.
So only tree other old ladies were there and they were not even watching. So I decided to go home,too.
Tf was showing hoe to do film editing.
No one was home and it was very quiet. Cha called me later to let me know that Sm left. Well I knew it.
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