yo te amo
eyeliner, lipstick, and a tight shirt completely change how i'm percieved. guys honked at me today for the first time in months. can't say i'd really missed it. but it's funny how many things such a tiny change can affect.
i've turned in every piece of homework this week. i have a history topic i'm psyched about. i got permission to sign up for AP physics. i'm ahead on my spanich project. who is this girl?
after school today i rode the bus home, stopped at the mercado, then sat in rengstorff park studying [yes, you read that right] for my history test. i sat there at a table in the sun listening to the sounds of my neighborhood [babies crying, two mothers at the next table having a conversation in spanish, languages ranging from english to spanish to hindi, traffic, trains, crossing gates], drinking agua de coco and eating obleas con cajeta de leche and paletas de arroz and pan dulce. it was sunny and i was happy and focused and for the first time i felt like just another neighborhood kid.
you'll have to excuse my love affair with city life. i grew up in the middle of nowhere.
