summer
Finally, the summer is coming to an end. A summer of new dreams and aspirations, of adventures and tales, and of hardship and struggle. Also a summer of sitting in front of a computer watching anime and reading manga while spending excessive amounts of time trying not enjoy the summer. The beginning of this summer when I first volunteered at the Science Museum now seems like a different life. Harvard is also a different life. And testmasters was just a fleeting moment. Thinking back on these things, I wonder, was it really me who did these things. Did I really live in a college dorm? Did I really show people fossils and animal skins? Did I really swim in a pond with my clothes on~??? Of course, every summer is similar to the next. Things happen which I question before school starts. Where did my summer go..is it over already? How can some parts of the summer seem so far away when the last day of school seems like it just happened yesterday.
I wonder if school will rush back at me. If the classes, the teachers, the students, will make me realize that the summer was all a dream. A figment of my imagination. Will everything be back to normal? Will the summer love have been swept away? Who am I..just a student. A student who keeps on reliving the past, getting distracted by thoughts of the future. I will eat lunch at school, in hallways, outside, or in classrooms. Whatever happened to Annenberg dining hall, a harry potter dream-like cafeteria. What happened to the restaurants located in Boston or the 7/11 store located on Massachusettes avenue, a place where I could buy all of my daily necessities. The Harvard Yard is long gone, the Museum volunteer office has been swept away..all I have to look forward to now is a school year, a year just like the last, and similar to the next on after it.
Until next summer, and until the day that I will see my loved one once again.