Thursday's Post

So today I finished Snow in Midsummer. I can honestly say, I didn't like this play at all. Maybe I just hate all Chinese and japanese literature because I didn't like Good person of Sechuan either. I feel like both plays went extremely fast, and seemed really simplistic in their dialogue. And nothing ever felt real. Like I never read a characters line and thought "this sounds like a realistic reaction to you being charged with murder!" everything seemed very melodramatic or unimportant to the characters. So all in all, I haven't been able to find something I enjoy about those plays.

Plot wise, Donkey takes Cai and Dou E to court, and Dou E confesses to the poisoning to save Cai from getting beat. She later says to Cai why she thinks Donkey did it and I'm wondering why she didn't say that in the court!! She didn't have to die, but she takes the blame anyway! But in the end Dou E kind of curses the town, saying that if she was innocent, frost will appear around her body and their will be a 3 year drought. So I guess some justice is done, the town suffered a bit after killing Dou E. And finally Dou is able to speak with his daughter's ghost , and he learns what really happened, so he returns to the village to punish Donkey and offer a sacrifice so his daughter can go to heaven.

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Today we went back to cross training, which wasn't as bad as it could have been. It felt good to start working out again. Then we started the communal creativity exercise? I'm not sure what else to call it. Which was interesting to say the least. The first time, I tried to accept anything that people would give me. Any circumstance or idea I just said "okay let's see how that works!" and went for it. I tried my best not to question what was going on, but what I started to notice was that made me block other things that were going on. Which isn't exactly helpful. And looking back I think I remember moments when I checked out, or wasn't really present and I didn't add to anything going on. The second time though, I felt a little more present. I tried to pass things on to people who were "open". Literately I started giving out paper because I tried to not make it about myself and instead help other people find something. And that felt like a much better experience.