December 2011
11 posts
Christmas Break
My earlier text entries sounded not at all like me. The phoniness of it, I know you sensed it. Haha. I liked having finished with the awkward experience, though, in that english class. It was a pain going to class twice a week, enduring an hour and fifteen minutes of writing session face-to-face with 16 individuals circled in a round table. I have always been awkward in small group gatherings,...
Lost in Transition
Nothing looks familiar. I am dawdling in a foreign city I had only dreamt of seeing face to face. On this Sunday afternoon, I stand along the barricaded and cleared up streets of Toronto, defying the summer heat and the mobbing of spectators, waiting for the rush of proud people to march by, and in the meantime, enjoying the scenery of teens on the rooftop splashing water along the streets. In a...