“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, June 18, 2009

La Cucaracha

A cucaracha (cockroach) welcomed me home from Paris…on my bed! I chased it for a few minutes with some fruity hairspray until I gave up and just switched rooms. We have three vacant rooms on our floor so I moved all my belongings into the room adjacent to mine. It’s bigger and nicer in general than my previous room. Now we refer to my old room as the cucaracha room, and our friend Keith likes to take siestas in there after school.This weekend all four of my roommates went to Lisbon, Portugal and I am here by myself. But no worries, Gloria, my host mom, told me to call her if I was scared, lonely, saw a cucaracha or a ghost and she would come up and sleep with me (Sound familiar, mom?).

-Laila

1 comments:

Laura Clark said...

yeah, the scared and lonely part, but not the bit about the cucaracha, por favor.

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