[Pretending]

[School Life] [Comedy] [Coming of Age] [Youth] [Slice of Life]

Time slips away so easily. Cherries redden, and plantains turn green.

Our middle school days have been forgotten in a corner. On the playground at fifteen, sweat streamed from us as we practiced running the thousand- and eight-hundred-meter races. The noisy classroom was a sound we never wanted to forget...

"I never went to high school. After graduation, I went to a vocational school. I had no talent for studying from a young age, so high school was an unattainable dream for me. In my city, only half of us could get into high school. For many people like me, it seemed as if our youth had stopped that summer when we took the high school entrance exam..."