Mood:  happy

*Standing in front of her yard in Mangolia*

Arisu:
Hello Sid! Mom and I are back in Mangolia.  Jin's idea, really. I just wanted to spend summer with you. Sadly, not to be. Not to be.

*Sighs and smiles*

Arisu:
Anyway, not much is going this year. Most of the kids grew up and moved away. That strange man doesn't show up anymore. But, I did see a couple of friends around.

 *Grins*

Arisu:
You remember Buqa and Gal, right? They stopped by and gave us plenty of sweets! Isn't that lovely?

*Pushes some hair from her eyes*

Arisu:
I really wish that you can and see this with me. You would like the scenery here. Mama doesn't drink as much as she does in Japan. In fact, she seems pretty happy here and has a couple of friends. It's kind of weird to me. Maybe Jin was right to send her here. As for me? I'm doing good. Other than not being able to see you, it's all good here. I'll be back to finish my classes to graduate. Jin doesn't want that, but Peaches talked him into it.

*Grins*

Arisu:
This is how many days I missed you. 

*Holds up her jar of stones and drops another stone in*

WRAP 

Mood:  energetic

Live from Mongolia.

*Arisu stands in front of her house, wearing a black and pink hoodie*

Arisu:
Hello Sid. Jin shipped mama and I back to Mongolia for the summer. Don't worry, we're be back for the fall semester.

*Giggles*

Arisu:
It's rainning here today. It's been raining for five days now. Mama isn't drinking as much as she usually does. The rain is helping her sleep better too. She sleeps with the windows open to hear the rain. It makes me think of you at times.

*Holds up a white ferret*

Arisu:
This is Gang. He belongs to my next door neighbor. When he going out on business, I take care of my little buddy here.

*Turns to Gang*

Arisu:
Say hi to Uncle Sid.

*Holds the ferret up to the camera*

Arisu:
*In weird, high-pitched voice* Hi uncle! Grandma and auntie are just fine here. Mongolia is great, but lonely. I wish you were here. I really want to meet you.

*Arisu lowers the ferret*

*Looks deep into the camera*

Arisu:
I really do miss you, Sid. Take care and call me.

*Blows a kiss to the camera*

WRAP

Mood:  flirty

*Live from Mongolia*

Arisu:
Hello Sindey, welcome to the road outside of my summer house. How are you? I miss you! Every morning since I have been in Ulan Bator, I get up at the same time, which is really, really nice. It's weird to have that kind of routine. And I'm getting things done! There's a piano in the house and I've been playing it every day. I can play with both hands, I'm getting really good. And I look out the window and it's really pretty, like so much space and nobody there.

*Pause*

Arisu:
Except, oh my god, all last week, every day there is an insane man running past and I can't figure him out. He's easily forty-five years old and he looks Chinese. Like I would imagine everyone in China looked like 1965. He has thick jet back hair and a big brushy mustache, and he dresses like he's here in the sixties. He runs in such a weird stiff way.

*Leans into the camera*

Arisu:
I think, he's a Mao billionare or his an escapist communist. I just want to know where he's going so badly. Since I've seen him, I've been noticing that, every here doesn't seem like the right time. Like, I walk past a news agents in the village and their window display can't have changed in fifteen years. The magazines have been bleached by the sun and the models on the covers don't have faces anymore.  And outside the bar, there are these two old men that just sit there all day, wearing thin cotton clothes, look bewildered. Like they are waiting for their bus back in the 1940's.

*Pause*

Arisu:
In the evenings, I can sit on the roof outside my bedroom and it's dark and I can really think. And I realized last night that you take in so much information the course of everyday. But, it's up to you how you interpurt it. You decide that it's lizards running the world. And in a day, you see two pictures of lizards, which you wouldn't have picked out before, but now they are super signifigant. Because you're switched on to lizards. And nothing else. Do you know how manys Sid there are stationed in Ulan Bator? Loads. They're everywhere.

*Pick up a glass jar of stones and looks at it. Turns back to the camera*

Arisu:
It's been this many days since I've seen you Sid.

*Adds another stone in the jar*

*Shuts off the camera*

WRAP

Mood:  crushed out

This is the end for me. I'm going to end it all right now and today. Just kidding! I'm Ozawa Arisu and this is my vid diary.

Dr. Taka:
Anybody special to you?

*Arisu grins*

Arisu:
Yeah, actually!

Dr. Taka:
Ooo, who?

*Arisu grins on*

Arisu:
Sil Wilson!

Dr. Taka:
Why is that?

*Arisu smiles brightly*

Arisu:
*Shrugs* I just do.

Dr. Taka:
What attracts you to him?

*Arisu shrugs*

Arisu:
He's like me. We both are rejects and broken. He cares about me. He really does. But yet...

Dr. Taka:
But yet what?

Arisu:
He likes someone else.

Dr. Taka:
Really now?

Arisu:
*Really bitter now* Yes!

*Arisu snaps herself in the wrist with the rubber band*

Arisu:
Ow!

*Pause*

Arisu:
I do that when I'm angry.

Dr. Taka:
That bad?

Arisu:
Yes.

*Pause*

Arisu:
Yeah, I love Sid that much. That's all I have to say for that one.

*Arisu bows*

WRAP