nette called me and woke me up so that i wouldn't be tooo late for our ecp outing. we cycled a looong way in the midday sun without sunblock, which was a supremely bad idea. 2 hours in that relentless heat earned us both tremendous sunburns, but the 20km journey was fun if trying. i had practically forgotten how to balance on a bike, but i guess the aphorism is true-- you never forget how to cycle, once you learn. hehe. speed, speed, speed! but my butt hurt. :( and so did my arms. and after that i hurt all over because i was BURNT. oooh and the sky was lovely, as was the sea-- all splashes of liquid gold on baked tarmac and segues of blue and green in turn humming along the coastline, sweeping up against the breakwaters as the high tides took their mark and measure of the seaside. some day even the highest of these breakwaters will not be able to withstand the waters.
slurpee, ice-cream (nette and YES i've paid off my mudpie debt for being late hahha), then a LOT of lime juice and delicious lunch (i coerced her into going to eat brown rice with me. at least, i ate brown rice, and she ate normal food. ban mian?) xf joined me after nette went home, despite the hovering sobering threat of rain and stormclouds that hung heavy over the skies. we went off to ecp once ( which was really extremely deserted on a weekday!-- and outwalked the rain, sitting on a breakwater popping mentos mints and haribo candies (gelatin. none for me :( ) it truly rained everywhere but on our parade of two-- the rain fell as close as a mere 10 metres or so away, judging by the stippled sea, but never directly and fully on us. i buried my feet in the sand and let the cold, cold water run over them; staring out at the sea in that spot, i could almost imagine that i could sail away, that i was surrounded by all the waters of the world. at that one moment-- suddenly it seemed like i could leave, escape. that almost everything was possible.
xf was cold. the winds really were a tad chilly. anyway after that we tried to find a place to sit and eat but gave up after a while since her throat was still achy. since the rain was getting heavier we decided to go.
that was the bulk of thursday. sigh. another day gone, another day closer to school.