May 11, 2006 12:58
Day before yesterday i was awoken at the cruel hour of 7:30 by a knock at my door. foolishly thinking it was a fire drill or something i pulled on a shirt and answered it. BIG MISTAKE. Before me loomed the very person ive been avoiding for the past week - my soon to be new flatmate Gabya Julius Tita, a cameroonian man with a lazy eye and a conviction that he is love with me. He proceeded to deliver a 45 min monologue over our future life together, completely ignoring my sleepy insistance that he could not possibly love me after meeting me once and regaurdless i wasnt looking to get hitched and wanted nothing more friendship from creepy guy with freewheelin, swiviling peepers. Later that day it began to thunder and lightning as the sun sunk from the cloudless sky and melted away behind the burnt seina rooftops. ever have one of those days where everywhere you turn everything and everyone seems to be a little upsidedown, insideout and backward?
The rude awakening of the that day was more than reqtified yesterday morning when i reached into my usually empty mailbox and pulled out an envelope shaped treasure chest containing a clipping from my favorite newpaper section, a runaway sheep and a few words that tugged my heart strings santa cruzward. the rest of the day i strolled along the streets of gottingen soaking up the 25 degrees (celcius) with a swollen heart and a smile from ear to ear, the kind that only comes from sun on your skin, or a friend by your side or, if you should be so lucky, both.