BUTTERFLY PEA TEA, DARK BAR, SUITCASE-"MUSKELKATER"
my high school friends and i got together again; we still see each other about once every quarter (whenever i visit my family in my hometown i try to see if anyone is available) and it's always a fun time. we don't really chat between our brief meet-ups so i tend to be a little anxious that it'll be different, awkward or exhausting – but alas, it never is! it's like muscle memory: despite all of us changing and living our lives apart, somehow the old dynamics set in each time. it's really comforting.
i took the train home the very day (a four-hour trip) and had my big suitcase with me since i'm staying for a week and (more importantly) decided to bring my knee-high leather boots that i plan to wear to the ichiko aoba concert on wednesday. this plan turned into the predicament of me having to carry that suitcase around all night – since all lockers at the train station left me hanging ... T^T (my arm is feeling very sore ...)
i didn't let that ruin my day/night though! my friends and i had dinner at a lovely vietnamese restaurant where i ordered a blue butterfly pea milk tea, edamame and some tofu-stuffed banh bao – everything was amazing! and so pretty! i really regret not taking a picture. (what is wrong with me!) edit: i convinced my mom to order my picks when she went to the same restaurant with her friend on monday so i'll happily pretend the photos she took are mine hehe:
afterwards we went drinking at a bar that was incredibly poor lit so we were sitting in the dark talking which was pretty odd. i talked to my friend about relationships (the romantic and platonic kind) and i felt we really understood each other. being alone is okay, being around people but not close with any is okay, too. i struggle to grow truly close with people from uni and it has bothering me from the start, but i feel that i'm slowly coming to terms with it. the narrative that college would be "the time of your life" where you meet "friends for life" or "the one" has been exterting so much pressure on me. so it felt very refreshing to see someone being comfortable with floating socially like i do.