June 26, 2016

We stood under the outdoor shower-head when I saw someone hanging a noose in red rope behind her head. When I tried to snatch it away, I inadvertently triggered the fire alarm and had to clear the premises.

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I walked into the room and someone was talking about how a professor had to remove their names from several papers because their reputation had been tarnished. I walked out of the room to see that the inner courtyard was being renovated. I thought it was a shame. After coming back into the room, someone was explaining how his good luck charm worked: after arranging the small metal hippos to face each other in a ring with one of them trailing after another on the side, good luck comes to those who walk away with their back faced to the arrangement.

I saw a pair of strangely shaped dogs staring at us from the other side of the door and couldn’t wrap my head around whether the door was open or not.

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We were given an assignment to draw out anxieties on a piece of paper. Each sheet had a different scribble in red crayon and I asked the teacher if we were supposed to incorporate it into our drawings. “That’s a good idea” he said.

I was walking right behind someone at night because it was raining and didn’t want to get wet trying to pass by them. I was clutching my soggy paper when they suddenly turned around and confronted me for following them.

It was already 11PM by the time I had got home. My mother asked if I needed to take more classes and whether or not I had enough workbooks.