Our former Icebox roomie, Ashley, writes from the Bigger Country:
there are all these men outside my building doing construction– they bring all the construction workers in from other towns because the labor is so much cheaper… so most have them have never seen many westerners… so whenever i walk by all work stops and they give me the ”chinese stare” that i have become very familiar with at this point. they build these little temporary shelters for them to live in but they seem to be working 24 hours a day– probably are. so i use the few things i know how to say in mandarin and try and be polite.. next week i start my mandarin classes so when i hear them saying stuff maybe now i will know what the hell it is..
so i was thinking about that night in burlington that we shut down three needs, broke glasses on the floor, had silly dances, and then a rendition of man bites dog … that was a good night!
She forgot to mention the final glass she tried to throw from the passenger seat of my car … she failed to notice that the window was closed, and threw a half-full Cape Cod at the pane of tempered glass separating her from the quiet 4am street.
Twas awesome. I miss that girl.
