This summer is dragging on.

I remember being in elementary school and having summers that felt like they were centuries long.  As the years progressed, summers felt shorter and I desperately wanted to have more days off from school.  This summer, it feels like how it used to feel when I was smaller.

I've been doing a few things different lately.  It's unusual for me to go to my grandma Nieves' house in Sullivan City when my parents go because I normally want to stay home and spend time doing silly things. Normally,  I don't go outside often in mid-afternoon to sit with my mom while she is watering the plants.  But two days ago, after forcing myself to go to my grandma Nieves' place because I wanted to come home to talk to Toshi, I ended up staying over and spending the night next door at my cousin's house.  Believe me, I love my family to death as it is but I feel like now I'm starting to appreciate the time I have with them more than ever.

Since I opened a bank account today with $525 dollars, I bought my plane ticket to Boston.  I was initially going to go on the same flight with Rhed and Kwan, two guys from California who I would've met up with on my connected flight in the Dallas/ Fort Worth airport to Boston, but today I couldn't find their flight and figured that there was no plane leaving McAllen that day that would get me there in time for the 12:30 connected flight.  Therefore, I was happy to ask Carlos about his flight time. Now it seems that I will be leaving for Boston with him in the Dallas/Fort Worth flight and sitting right next to him.

There are quite a bit of things I must do this summer before I leave and I have been slowly but surely keeping on track with all the forms that must be completed.   The only thing that sucks is that I still haven't gotten my Meningitis immunization and I'm certainly not excited for it.  It's a bit moronic of me to be afraid of little immunization needles when I've gotten several piercings (all diy) and my ears are stretched but I just hate for other people to touch me with sharp and pointy things.  

Right now, I'm not bored of my life.  I have enough worries, stress, anxiety, uncertainty, housework, family issues, and even excitement to keep me occupied.  However, I'm ready to see another part of this world for once.

The oh-so-sheltered-by-this-almost-all-Hispanic-society,

Dina Starr