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1. Drove all the way to Philadelphia By Myself (I told all the surprised adults: “I basically just came up route 1 for an hour and a half”
2. Picked up a diaper that may have been used and the back half of a fish while cleaning up a block in Germantown
-Met a girl named Peaches (and Nate told me her last name is Berry) who had the most beautiful long braids I have ever seen
3. Enjoyed a samosa burrito at the site of Philadelphia slams, then saw a very tiny baby and ate part of a scone his dad made.
4. Had many good talks
5. Met Dr. Michael Penn for about thirty seconds as he greeted all the Germantown kids that I was about to take home (yes- I followed someone into the city with my car completely full of people 18 and under)
6. Managed to follow directions from Germantown back to PBC, and from there to Swat
7. Went to an excellent Swat party with Becca and danced like I haven’t danced in ages. Literally. I’m doing more interpretive dance at school ones these days, and there wasn’t room there.
8. Slept in a college bed for the first time since CTY.
9. Broke two of my license provisions within a few hours
10. Grabbed breakfast at WaWa
11. Was actually early to class on Sunday, because I never actually got lost, and enjoyed telling everyone that no, I hadn’t decided yet. (Foad’s response: “What? There’s no decision to make.”)
12. Saw Mateen for the first time since he left for Costa Rica, and remembered how I was all kinds of certain that I’d be in India this summer., and now I’m probably not going at all.
13. Got a copy of the curriculum so I can catch up on what I missed. I’ve actually done some of it; notably, the memorization.
14. Wandered around Swarthmore town/campus for nearly two hours, getting lost a few times and too shy to talk to a single soul.
15. Realized that I have less than two months left of high school
1. go into hysterics and induce a fight between my parents
2. cry at all except a little when I got off route one in Hickory, and it really hit me about Mateen and college and everything all at once.
3. have much trouble with calc (though seriously, if I was, it wouldn’t have mattered. I was around math people all weekend.)
4. go prom dress shopping
Because of the things I did not do, this weekend owned last weekend. However, I did lose my flash drive somewhere. Ueber, ueber not good.
This morning, Mr. Gant asked me where I was going to college. I told him it was pretty much between Swat and Yale, and he touched me and was like, “woooooooow.” as in, “I got to touch someone who got into Yale.” Yeah, North Harford…
And that is basically what I'm down to.
This afternoon I revised my poems for the slam. I think I have two basically ready to memorize and one I’m still working on.