graduation.

it is kind of hard to believe that i will be graduating in less than two weeks. i may have been waiting for this day to come for a long time. but deep inside me i am scared and really don't want to leave the small secure school i go to presently. leaving ecs will be exciting and sad at the same time. leaving behind so many laughs and tears seems so hard but it is coming at me so quickly. it will be tremendously hard to leave behind not just the familiar school itself but everything and everyone in it. i have made some great friendships with teachers and with girls from all different grades. but the hardest thing to leave behind is the family of thirty-eight girls i have been living this amazing journey with for five years. the girls of grade eleven are truly amazing. they all may be very different some quiet some loud some tall some short, but i think that that makes us who we are. in grade eleven we all love each other for who we are and what we have become. i will miss everyone so dearly but i think that it is good to grow up and fly away. times will change, the clock will tick but we will always be there for each other, whenever, wherever. because we are family, we've been on this journey for a longtime but the journey hasn't ended it has just begun.


peace
jm.

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who are you, who am i?

it's really annoying that people plaster these stereotypes on other people. i hate stereotypes. i hate even the thought of them. what stereotypical group do you belong? which one do i belong to? in the end, i feel like i don't belong to any of them.

i don't have a certain persona, or personality.

i am, who i am.

The Tranquility of Traveling.

Looking at the headlines of the newspapers, the riots in Kenya, the darkness of Gaza City, the state of Pakistan and the million and million of more unspeakable headlines facing this world, I feel close to them. I feel the need to go to the remote places in the world where no one else wants to go. Personally, in a blink of an eye I would go to Afghanistan and learn about their culture and they way they live or to Kenya and see the riots for myself, even though they are extremely exaggerated I think that it would still be tremendously interesting. There are so many atrocities that occur everyday and millions of people don’t even turn their heads, in many ways I would love to be the person who does.

While, reading the news I find every single article so interesting, and traveling to some pretty mind blowing places in the world every human being out there is so different and incredible to me. I don’t know why and I don’t know if I ever will but the cultures, the people and their stories are so captivating that I encapsulate each of them and treasure them in my mind. Speaking of traveling I think that it is the best schooling anyone can get, learning about another individual’s life is so fascinating and comparing it to my own. I mean every single person on this earth lives so differently from one another and every human being believes and cherishes different things. I find it so mind boggling to understand how we can all live on one planet and be so different, but I guess that is the beauty of the earth.

“Why would you ever want to go there? It’s so dirty.” Someone told this to me when I was about to travel to India and a year and a half ago. To me India is not a “dirty” place; to me India is a land of beauty and spirituality containing some of the oldest and most outstanding creatures and monuments on this earth. Although, not everyone sees it that way, going more into the traveling aspect; some see traveling as a place to get away and to relax and to party. Well I don’t, traveling to me is to make a journey anywhere at any time, to experience one other’s culture and their lifestyle; to see different views of the earth and to see different landscapes and distinctive scenery. Individually, I don’t see traveling as just a vacation I see it as experiencing and wandering throughout the earth and discovering places and people. Traveling brings serenity to my life and I love encountering and capturing every minute of it.