Lazy Days in Matsu
It's been 9 days since I got back here. And having days off is the major task for me. Being able to go out everyday makes days off different. Since we have only one day off in a week, which makes the holiday significant and meaningful. We often cherish it in a internet café all day even without taking a nap or a rest. But that kind of holiday doesn't work now only when we want to be a pauper when we leave the army. For saving money and absorbing something new, Min-ren and I go to the library and the stadium for both knowledge and health besides the internet café. I found it fresh for a soldier like me because I never walk leisurely in the narrow alleys in Matsu. Taking each step going forward to places I want is really a special freedom before I get back to the "real world".
They say "老兵八字輕"and now I think I am involved. There are 12 days more and I am a free man, of course I am an elder soldier though I don't even want to be. Bad things happen to us more quickly than before in the kitchen that I am afraid I can't leave here safely. Wrong and even stupid things makes the commissioners angry almost every day. Worries haunting my mind, but I can't do anything. It is proved that you are still not safe even when you stand on a island called Matsu, named after a goddess.
The last 12 days staying here are my last 12 days in the army. In the end, I hope they will try their best to make my memory of the army not too bad.
