i've put off writing about it for a couple days but i guess there's no point...our dog jiujiu died two nites ago. she'd been sick for about a week and a half with all sorts of diseases; she had worms, an eye infection, stomach and leg rashes, nausea, and a fever. we gave her local human worm and diarrhea medicine and had some special dog worm medicine sent in from the states and we took her to two doctors, one for humans and one for animals, and they each gave her a shot. we went to the animal doctor on the last day; after he gave her the shot she had a big seizure and went through a cycle of having a seizure, sleeping, and barking at nothing for the rest of the day, until she had an extended seizure for about two hours and passed away around 2 am.

we buried her in an uncultivated plot of land on campus. ben, our school liasion, brought tools and his little daughter brought some forget-me-nots to lay on her grave.

i dreamed about her last nite, for the first time. we had her for a month, 9/1 - 10/1...the students loved to come to our end of campus and play with her in the afternoons and the teachers always asked after her. so long, jiujiu, we miss you.