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THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH

VIGA SAMMY CHOI: NA TING THE MUSIC WORLD

BY CLAIRE RAMSAY

THE TRUTH IS UNCOMFORTABLE.

Despite his intense passion for music, Sammy expresses some difficulty in opening up about his music lyrics in the face of potential judgment.

A current junior studying Design at the University of Southern California, Sammy Choi has always been a creator. Sammy began making music back in high school, where he was exposed to a variety of music by a friend. While he wasn’t interested at first, his friend’s continual “force-feeding” of music influenced Sammy to eventually get into it on his own.

Later on, friends of his who attended a different school from the Palisades asked Sammy if he wanted to join them in creating a lo-fi song. Intrigued by the offer, Sammy tried writing a verse. To his surprise, those around him gave him positive feedback. He was proud of himself. Perhaps he could make music.

Back at his own school in central LA, Sammy noticed a kid DJ-ing in class. Attempting to make connections and broaden his musical career, Sammy reached out to the kid. They began producing together and the class DJ introduced Sammy to another producer, who he currently works with today.

Alongside this producer, Sammy eventually wrote his first full song. The first time he recorded the song, the guy who was mixing the song lost the file. Sammy had to re-record. By attending a studio over the course of 3 months, “The Truth is Uncomfortable” was written.

“The truth is, I know I hurt But do you really not love me,

“THE TRUTH IS UNCOMFORTABLE” DISCUSSES A BROKEN RELATIONSHIP, BUT DIFFERS FROM THE TYPICAL HEART-BREAK SONG.

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Sammy questions and confronts this love interest by asking genuine questions regarding lies, manipulation, and unfairness in relationships. “The Truth is Uncomfortable” speaks to the notion of being left feeling confused and lost after a relationship ends.

While the truth may be uncomfortable for Sammy, writing his narrative through the medium of music has allowed him to grow both his musical skill and his personal confidence. This complex interrogation with discomfort presented through his emotional and deeply personal musical practice will only lead developing artists like himself to gain the needed courage to inspire others and share their music with a much wider audience.

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Photo: Sammy Choi, July 2022 SAMMY CHOI, AKA

Alex Hau’s Oasis of Serenity and Tranquility

It takes great thinking to answer a question such as the one we were asked today; What is one of the most life-changing and memorable days of your life? With years and years of lessons learned, days filled with joy and happiness, and moments of sorrow, answering this question could be quite challenging.

For Alex, a special day during the global pandemic turned into a day to never forget. After months of social distancing, staying home, and a great deal of uncertainty about the future, Alex found a great escape.

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While being shut in a global lockdown, we were all tired of binge-watching the same movies and sitting on our couches. People found new ways of creating pandemic memories despite all our constraints. One great way Alex found to pass the time was to spend a day fishing on the San Joaquin River. No strangers, no technology, and just peace–sounds about the perfect pandemic trip, right? To make this trip happen, Alex convinced three of his closest friends from high school to join him. As they had not seen each other in months, it was an exciting reunion between the four friends.

With lots of planning, the group was up and ready to set out on their fishing trip-except one, still a sleeping beauty in bed. After many calls and alarms, Alex’s friend just would not wake up. With only one option left, they all jumped over the fence and started banging on his window. Sure enough, he was up and ready to go in no time. As 4 am came around, the group of friends was finally prepared to start their day! The drive from Cupertino to

San Joaquin River was just about an hour, allowing them to prep and wake up for their long day on the river. Excited and eager as ever, they finally arrive at the lake. As soon as they get off the car, their moods completely flipped. It was cold and foggy, and all of Alex’s friends just dreamed of going back to sleep in their warm beds. Despite being wholly miserable and numb, Alex reminded his friends how fun this experience would be.

To make the trip fun and stimulating, the group of friends competed to see who would be the first to catch the best fish in the area, the sturgeon. In the beginning, everyone was competitive and anxious to see if someone else would catch the sturgeon first. But as time passed and several hours passed, the group of friends caught the same boring fish, striped bass. Feeling defeated and tired of the cold weather, the group of friends just wanted to leave and go home.

Still enjoying his time on the calm river, Alex had another burst of hope and continued to fish. While sitting there, he felt more at peace than ever before, listening to the water move and leaves blowing in the light breeze. He realized how much he admired the tranquility of water and how much it resonated with him. In Alex’s moment of silence, he was suddenly brought back to reality when a sharp tug on his fishing pole alarmed him. This catch was different than the previous striped bass. It was stronger. It was rougher. It had to be a sturgeon. Thrilled and exhilarated, Alex’s friends immediately jumped up to help

him reel in the fish. Thirty minutes later, they still weren’t able to capture this creature. Tired of the fish jumping back and forth, Alex’s friend grabbed the net and scooped the fish out of the water. Unexpectedly, the fish was an extremely large striped bass, not a sturgeon. Disappointing this was, Alex still was proud of his largest catch of the day. It brought the group of friends back together, happy and having a memory to laugh about forever. He was also able to share his catch with his grandparents. Surprising them with such a large striped bass, they all enjoyed a nice dinner together, bringing a long day to a comforting end.

Acheery attitude, bright aesthetic, and motivation for a good work ethic are all admirable qualities that a successful individual should possess. However, those who only recognize these admirable traits seldom recognize the hard work and determination that must exist as the foundation to build up such a strong character. Alexis Gallegos possesses all of these admirable qualities and looks to be on her way to success, but her battle to get to the point where she is today was a hardfought one that occurred not too long ago.

In the Fall semester of her junior year (2022), Alexis began to recognize herself relapsing into a bout of depression. As Alexis recalls, she was able to recognize the symptoms early on due to a previous experience with depression in her junior year of high school.

Depression acts as quicksand:

the farther you fall into the hopelessness of depression, the more di cult it is to try and escape. Learning from past experience, Alexis decided to take action early and made sure that she would prevent herself from falling deeper into the abyss. She rst began to raise her dopamine levels through watching her favorite show, Gossip Girl. While this may seem insigni cant, this is the rst crucial step that Alexis actively took towards resisting depression and taking her life back into her own hands. From there, Alexis began to look introspectively and realized that her priorities did not resonate with how she truly felt.

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Growing up in a large supportive family, she knew that she could always ask for support when dealing with problems such as the one that was on her plate. Alexis sought help to get through her current bout of depression, and in doing so she was able to productively organize the priorities in her life. First, she deleted all of the social media on her phone. She determined that social media was not contributing to any of her goals, and that it was much more harmful than helpful to her mental wellbeing. As a result, Alexis’s screen time on her mobile phone decreased signi cantly; meaning her time to do everything else increased signi cantly. She got a new emotional support partner, a little goldendoodle puppy named Leia. Doing so not only gave her a new companion but also allowed her to reconnect with her love of nature/living things. Alexis began to rekindle her love for old passions such as going on hikes and going to the beach, now with more time than ever to get out and embrace nature. The increased free time also allowed her more freedom to explore other passions such as her love for electronic music and curiosity around fashion trends.

Alexis also frequently visited her sister who attends UC Berkeley. Together, they would walk around campus and explore the area, and Alexis came across a bookstore that she felt particularly drawn to. She began to explore their wide selection, eventually nding a passion for reading with the free time she had away from social media. In particular, she enjoyed reading from the vast selection of design books. When back at USC, Alexis began to really coordinate what she needed to explore her career. She joined a variety of clubs that were both helpful but also fun, such as InnoD. She also began to work on her personal branding, designing a website to showcase all of her past work. Even through gathering her stu together, Alexis was able to learn more about herself and began to realize that a marketing emphasis felt right to her rather than purely an emphasis in design. Now, a semester later, she is working hard towards preparing for a Master’s degree in Marketing while still having the time to enjoy reading, nature, fashion, music, and design.

It is important to recognize that Alexis did not always know what the right path was, and she was almost steered entirely in the wrong direction due to the unwelcome presence of depression. However, her strong will to avoid falling into depression’s grasp and her ability to recognize the power of baby steps in the right direction is what ultimately allowed her to get the place she is at today. Her journey is far from over too, and

Alexis will continue to take whatever steps necessary to make sure that her victory over depression will not be for naught.

and the seven cats

a new house brings new purpose to sophia

O RAST N C T

based on a story from

Evan Gi

by Isabella Zhu

The countryside in Ketchum, Idaho, is everything Los Angeles is not. It is calm, quiet, and peaceful. It is full of rolling foothills and wide, endless sky, and utterly incomparable for someone that has lived in the city all his life. As Evan Gi tells it, all it takes is one autumn trip to upend one’s perception of the world entirely. The story of these two lands, as told to me, is one of contrast — contrast between emptiness and fullness, simplicity and complexity, and, ultimately, different kinds of beauty and the types of happiness that are important in life.

Los Angeles, the city, was founded in 1781, and has been steadily swelling with people ever since. From its humble origins as a small farming colony to its

now-legendary status as the (or at least one of the) Entertainment Capital of the World, the city has a long and storied history. While creators in the nascent film industry began to move to the city well over a century ago, it truly hit its population boom between the World Wars. With nearly 4 million inhabitants by the most recent census, Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States, and worlds apart from the wild tranquility of the countryside. Not only is the city one of the most populous in the world, Los Angeles’ continued antisprawl efforts have made it fiercely dense — its enormous population condensed into relatively little space, making for an urban hustle and bustle unlike anything else.

In sharp contrast, Ketchum was founded in 1880, a full century after the Spanish colony that would come to be known as Los Angeles first settled in California. Rather than an agricultural town, Ketchum began life as a smelting town, before rapidly transitioning to sheep-shipping in the 1890s. Unlike Los Angeles, which, due to its geography and laws, attracted the burgeoning roots of what would become one of the largest industries in the world, Ketchum remained a small livestock herding town until the Union Pacific Railroad moved in to develop the resort city of Sun Valley to the east. The resort and the area’s natural beauty and abundant hiking and skiing opportunities attracted celebrities of all kinds, most notably Ernest Hemingway, which famously loved the valley in which both cities could be found, and the tourism industry has shaped the small town ever since.

The chaos of the city isn’t always a bad thing, of course. There is always something to do or see, and the sheer density means you’re never far from most things. Like many large cities, there’s a little bit of just about everything in Los Angeles. It is one of the most recognizable cities in the world, reknowned for its entertainment scene, be it movies, TV, or music, but more than that it is simply a place with a lot of people all living together, with businesses of all stripes clustered tightly together such that one can find almost anything within city bounds. Los Angeles even has some amount of nature in and around it. Like any city, it is

dotted with parks, and its beaches are famous, as, arguably, are the deserts around it — which have served as the backdrops for many a film. There are even mountains around the city — the famous Hollywood sign and Griffith Observatory are perched on the Santa Monica mountains, and there are plenty of smaller hills and peaks clad in vegetation throughout, but you don’t know just how different a city like Los Angeles is from the distant countryside until you’ve left the city behind.

A little over 700 miles by air — or 845 miles by road — away from Los Angeles’ metropolitan sprawl, nestled in the midst of central Idaho, the city of Ketchum lies nestled in the valley at the foot of Bald Mountain, and ensconced by the Smoky Mountains. Ketchum is

a small city, a century younger, with about 0.09% the population of Los Angeles, but where Los Angeles is world-famous as the beating heart of the entertainment industry, Ketchum and neighboring Sun Valley are world-famous for their nature.

Life in the city is busy, and often very complicated, but the valley is simple, and, compared to the city, empty and isolated. That’s far from a bad thing, Evan explains. Rather, the solitary beauty of the landscape is a refreshing boon. “It’s good to just get away

“

Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States, and worlds apart from the wild tranquility of the countryside.

sometimes. Empty and isolated places are good for your mental health, you know?” It is, in other words, lonely, especially compared to Los Angeles’ urban density, but not lonely in a bad way. Rather, the loneliness might even be a necessity for a good quality of life.

Evan spent his fall break visiting the valley with two of his friends. “The simplistic lifestyle isn’t a bad lifestyle,” he said. “I’ve lived in LA all my life, so it was really different.” When I asked what exactly about it he liked most, he replied, “You get to do things that soothe and calm you, and just care about having fun more than looking cool... it was really perspective-altering for me.” The social environment and culture of Los Angeles, it seems, is especially highpressure in comparison to a place like Ketchum, where comfort and the beauty of the natural world valued by the tourism industry

from the city. Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the country, but Ketchum, and the surrounding area, is nearly 90% White, something which a person of color might be abundantly and uncomfortably aware of when learning about, let alone visiting the area. “I was kind of nervous,” Evan went on to say, “but people were so hospitable... I was treated the same as everyone else. It opened my eyes to the fact that most people are inherently good.”

and the area’s humble livestock-raising roots mesh together into something altogether more relaxed and, ultimately, fun. There is a little bit of everything in the city, but sometimes you just want all of it to stop, to escape away and take a break from the constant physical and social hustle and bustle.

Still, there are other things about Ketchum that are very different

At the end of our talk, he pulls out his phone and shows me some of the pictures he took in Idaho. “I took pictures of views that I thought were interesting, but they look kind of normal,” he says, clearly disappointed about being unable to entirely capture or convey the sights he saw. “A lot of pictures feels like they’re more beautiful than the original subject, but these are kind of the opposite. They’re not as good as the real thing.”

Photos provided by Evan Gi

“It opened my eyes to the fact that most people are inherently good.”

ONLY for$20.00

One out of character decision changed Joanne Park’s life.

Planning for some people is essential. Although the act itself doesn’t sound incredibly relaxing, people create a reliance on it, allowing them to go through life at ease. Joanne has always been one to use a planner. Beginning in high school, she has always looked forward to purchasing her annual planner and buying new pens to decorate the pages. This was the perfect way for Joanne to collect herself and

Planning was a form of therapy. Unfortunately, like most people during the COVID-19 pandemic, Joanne battled with depression. When in this state, it is common for people to turn to pets. In fact, interacting with animals has been known to lower levels of cortisol and blood pressure. Needless to

a new sense of comfort and serotonin that came in handy during this tough time. For this reason, Joanne began her search for a new friend. She started with Craigslist, thinking that she would only be interested in cats. As she continued the search, one particular ad popped up that completely changed her mind.

The headline written in big bold letters displayed “Female MinPin for Sale.” As she clicked on it, she was astonished to know that the dog was only being sold for $20. “That’s such a good deal!” she thought as she continued to read the page. Excited about the low price, she immediately inquired by texting the number on the site. The seller responded promptly with an address to pick the dog up, however the location was a little questionable to Joanne. Because of this, she asked if the dog instead. The seller accepted but said he would have to charge a little extra for delivery. Since the price was already so low, she immediately replied “Yes.”

Joanne couldn’t be more happy that a new friend was on the way, however, she did absolutely nothing before the dog’s arrival. The lack of preparation and planning was quite out of fashion for Joanne, but there was some aspect of the spontaneity that was fun for her. She had already committed to taking the dog, so there was no going back now.

A couple of hours later, a man pulled up in a big black rental car. According to Joanne, the seller “looked like he owned pitbulls…which he did.” She

soon as the dog was handed to her, she felt at ease. She was much cuter than the pictures, and had short black fur with light brown spots decorating her eyebrows and her tail. Her eyes were almost as big as her nose, and one of her ears perked up while the other only then that Joanne realized what she got herself into.

“Everytime she causes me trouble I just remember she was only 20 bucks.”

-Joanne Park

Although she was a little panicked, there was something about this puppy that reassured her everything was going to be okay. With the dog still in her arms, she snuck her inside and got familiarized her with the new apartment. The dog began jumping on furniture and grabbing onto whatever she could get a hold of. She even tried getting on the bed, but because it was too high for her, Joanne had to help her out a bit. The puppy began checking

little too long. Before Joanne could realize what the dog was preparing to do, the dog started to pee. “JEANIE NO!,” Joanne exclaimed as she ran to pick her up and take her out of the room, but it was too late. The name “Jeanie” hadn’t crossed Joanne’s mind before. There wasn’t any meaning to the name really; it just sort of came out. So she stuck with it, because nothing in this situation was planned, so why

Six months later, Joanne wouldn’t change a thing. Everything fell into place exactly as it should have. And yet none of it was planned.

written by Olivia Dangelo photographs courtesy of Joanne Park

VAMOS A ROCKANR

DECEMBER 3, 2022 was one of very few days with bright sunshine after weeks of heavy rainfall. Inarguably, it was a good day. It was also the day the first edition of the Bésame Mucho Festival took over the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA: the day Alessandra Avalos and her family, flown all the way from Portland, showed off their rock spirits.

Bésame Mucho, which translates to “kiss me a lot,” celebrated Latino music culture, featuring an iconic multigenerational lineup of Latin artists across three distinct stages: Rockero (Rocker), Las Clasicas (The Classics), and Te Gusta El Pop (You Like Pop). The single-day festival, with the first-ever lineup of Latin giants, gathered Latin pop, Regional Mexican, merengue, cumbia, and rock en Español into one stadium. “They were throwback artists and bands that I listened to growing up, that my parents listened to when they were young,” Alessandra spoke with glee.

It was meant for everybody, from grandparents to kids, to find their favorites and dance throughout the day. Rooted in close connection and deep nostalgia for Latino culture, the event gained immediate and immense popularity. Luckily, Alex and her family got hold of the Early Bird tickets to the doors of the nostalgia hole.

The festival also presented various food choices from regional and local vendors. “The food and drink were good but quite expensive,” Alex said. Culturally relevant decorations created by the designer Ricardo Soltero adorned each corner. She absolutely loved them.

They were throwback artists and bands that I listened to growing up, that my parents listened to when they were young...

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CKANROLERA!

Alessandra Avalos, dressed in a leather jacket, jeans, and leather boots, spent most of the day “rock ‘n’ rolling” with her sister. The two “snuck” into the VIP area by the main stage since the security opened the gates.

“We just moved in with the people,” Alex commented jokingly, recalling how “packed” and “unorganized” the festival was. Apart from the overcrowding and long waiting hours in line for food and drinks, frequent technical difficulties also deeply frustrated her. Her excitement for her favorite rock band Zoé was largely met and displaced by disappointment due to set and audio issues.

But she knew; as it was her first time at a Latino music festival, it was Bésame Mucho’s first time hosting one as well. I could hear the joy in her voice, already looking forward to the next edition of the event.

It was also a rock en Español band Enanitos Verdes’ first time performing without their lead vocalist Marciano Cantero, who passed away last September at the age of 62.

Watching their guitarist Felipe Staiti lead the band as fellow rockers joined for a few songs, including David Summers of Hombres G and Rubén Albarrán of Café Tacvba, Alex was unforgettably moved. “It was very touching,” she said.

A Latino music festival, a family trip, rock ‘n’ roll, and excellent weather. For Alessandra, the sunny December was absolutely terrific.

EDITOR YOU MIN CHOI

PHOTOS BY ALESSANDRA AVALOS

For most college students, winter break is spent partying with friends and celebrating the holidays back home with family. For third-year design student Min Choi, it was spent exploring city life on opposite coasts. Choi, who attends the University of Southern California in the heart of Los Angeles, traveled across the country to experience the city of New York, alone.

Equipped with a full week’s itinerary, Choi departed LAX and embarked on her very first solo trip on December 13th, 2022. Two thousand eight hundred twenty-two miles later, she arrived in the Big Apple. Her first stop of the trip: The Arlo Nomad hotel, her interim home for the week.

New York welcomed Min with an ordinary gentle winter rainfall and chill breeze, just as she had prepared for. Reset and ready for her actual first day of the trip, she stepped out into the city in a chic pairing of denim jeans playfully adorned with a stitched heart over the knee and a fluffy oversized scarf draped over her shoulders. A hearty bagel fueled Min for the first stop of the day, the Guggenheim art museum. Located on the Upper East Side, the Guggenheim museum houses a wide range of paintings, sculptures, and other visual works, many of which were acquired from personal collections. Apart from the art held within its walls, the structure itself is a destination for any design enthusiast. As a designer herself, Min could have spent the entire day marveling at the artwork, but of course, the itinerary did not cease to exist. The rest of the day was spent enjoying the scenery of Central Park and Colombia University.

I<3 New york

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it’s called “style”

The following days consisted of more restaurants, museums, galleries, and shopping. With nobody to compromise with, she spent the days precisely as she wished. She sat alone at a jazz club. Rode the subway up and down New York. Stared at her own reflection in shop window displays. In a huge city with millions of people, Min felt satisfied with her own company.

Min smiled as she retold me her experience eating the best steak of her life at Gallagher’s Steakhouse. I asked her, “Did it feel weird to be eating alone at a restaurant?” Her response

was that she was not the only one alone. By going out solo, Min described to me how she became more perceptive of her surroundings, as well as herself. The truth is she didn’t feel alone.

As the week came to an end and the list of excursions on her detailed itinerary were checked off, Min prepared to return to Los Angeles. She felt rejuvenated—and accomplished with the fabulous holiday market haul she was bringing back just in time for Christmas.

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Photos Courtesy of Min Choi

THE SLIDE

Where did the bunny go?

Anika Chen lived in a two ﬂoor household with her parents and a younger sister. She had a backyard at the house where her parents put the slides and a basketball court for them to hang out outside of home.

When Anika was six years old, she raised a pet bunny. One day, she was doing homework upstairs in the room and her younger sister randomly came up to her without any words. However, Anika knew something was wrong, but her younger sister refused to tell her. A er a while of investigating, she ﬁnally brought her to where her pet bunny was. She was lying in a shoebox with a drop of blood next to its mouth. Anika thought the bunny was simply injured, but it was pretty obvious that the bunny was dead because she was not breathing.

Slide in the backyard

Anika’s sister

Kelly Chen, a four year old, was hanging outside in the backyard. She loved hanging out in the slides because of the speed and height. It happened to be that day, when she saw the bunny running around the house. She simply thought the bunny would enjoy the slides too. She brought the bunny and just dropped him o the slides. The bunny died as soon as he landed the ﬂoor.

Anika’s sister was only four at the time, so she was not able to blame her entirely for the accident. Her sister later revealed that she threw the bunny down the slide in their backyard simply because she thought the bunny would also enjoy it. A er hearing the entire story, Anika had a hard time recovering from the death of her pet, however she was also so young that

Beijing, China

At Anika’s house in the backyard where she lived in multi-generation househould with her parents and grandparents.

One day, Anika saw a scene from a Television show where a family was raising a pet bunny at their apartment home. Since then, she continuously begged her parents to get her a bunny and she promised to raise well without the help of her parents. Her parents took her to the pet market near her house and got her a few weeks old, white, male bunny.

In the house

Anika was born in Beijing, China. She was raised there until she turned eight. Since then, she lived in America until now. She is both ﬂuent in English and Chinese.

Anika Chen lived in a two ﬂoor household with her parents and a younger sister. She had a backyard at the house where her parents put the slides and a basketball court for them to hang out outside of home.

Anika’s poodle

by Z. Zhang

What’s a better way to start your summer vacation than a visit from Death, Pestilence, War and Hunger?

The end of the spring semester is usually cause for celebration but, when you’re hit with a stroke of bad luck, summer vacation may not be as relaxing as expected. Hit by a series of bizarre events, Ewa Wojciak’s summer vacation and beyond is a tale of death, pestilence, war, and hunger.

Death & Pestilence

Ewa’s cousin passes at the end of the semester and while her cousin’s next-of-kin would be her sons, they were all grown and had moved away from Los Angeles. The keys

to her house fall into Ewa’s possession.

At the same time, Ewa was preparing for a ﬂight across the pond. She taught a class where at the end of the semester, she brings students to London to visit different design studios within the city.

The trip was running smoothly until the very last moment.

Before ﬂying back to the States, everyone had to take a COVID-19 test and while all of Ewa’s students were negative, she tests positive. After being stuck in London for a

week, she ﬁnds a sketchy but real doctor to write her a note, allowing her to ﬁnally return home.

War

Ewa ﬁnally returns home to Los Angeles and things are seemingly back to normal. She’s teaching a summer course and starts to dogsit for a friend who, at the time, was staying in Portugal.

After picking the dog up from LAX, Ewa brings him home and notices some odd behavior. Barking at the fridge. Barking at the washing machine. Just barking at anything and everything. It was weird but it was nothing she couldn’t get used to as she had a dog of her own.

Days go by and the barking doesn’t stop until one night, she’s awoken by the frantic barks from both dogs and the sound of light pattering.

Ewa goes back to sleep. Besides, the incessant barking was a part of her life at this point.

But the barking continues and so does the pattering. She wakes up again, only this time she’s greeted by the loud scurrying of a rat across her bedroom.

A war against the unwelcome visitors commences!

In a rush and panic, she grabs the two dogs and all that she could carry and retreats to her cousin’s place.

Hunger

Sleeping in an unfamiliar place is undoubtedly unsettling — especially

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