I am from…

I am from friendship,
From milk and coffee.

I am from the joyous smell of cookies,
I am from the bush,
The orange tree whose long limbs I remember as if they were my own.

I’m from Christmas decorations and turkeys for thanksgiving,
From Mom and Dad.

I’m from soccer games and building with Legos,
From Chinese New Year.

I’m from Austin and China, Rice and beans,
From Mom’s life in China without her parents,
Located right in my heart because she’s told me so many times.

A normal week

This week nothing special has happened. I wake up, go to school, finish school, come home, do homework, and then go back to sleep. Sometimes I like this, but sometimes I don’t. I like it because I don’t have to think about anything special or important thing coming up in the future, but I don’t like it because it sort of becomes a routine in my life.

Halloween!!

This Halloween I went trick-or-treating with my friends. We went through my neighborhood and another neighborhood just to get about 20 lbs of candy! It will probably take me the whole year just to eat that much candy!