July 26, 2024

It was the Monday of the second week of the semester and I was still trying to remember my class schedule. I knew was taking four classes with one of them being a music class. I just hoped that I wasn’t going to miss a class. A classmate asked me about a homework assignment which I had completely forgotten about. I only remembered that had to create a bassline for a music composition class.

I sat down for a lecture in a black box theater. We watched a performance involving an elephant navigating a dead and decaying city. It said it didn’t need recognition from others to live. There was a scraggly cat talking about the role of baseball in the Taiwanese identity and the way it was a confluence of Japanese and American legacies on the island.