Alyssa

thoughts and ramblings of alyssa
2002-07-07 02:10:36 (UTC)

4 days

4 days
i'm outa here.
as far away from my hometown as i can get.
Australia.
New Zealand.
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHH!

i'm dying now. i'm leaving in 96 hours.
3 weeks in someplace i've never been before. the farthest
away i've ever been. the farthest away i could ever go. a
new country, a new continent, a new culture.
this is gonna be so good for me. i'm an ignorant white gurl
from a middle class family in smalltown, USA. i have no
worldly experience, no one in this town does. i mean, the
hotshots go to florida on spring break. i bet no one from my
town has ever been to australia. i'm so excited.
i get to spend the night in a maori village, visit an aussie
school, meet aborigines. however you spell that. i'm gonna
come back less ignorant and sheltered. i wish for that.
i hate living where the most diverse person you know speaks
fluent english. where everything is catered to you, an
american teenager. everyone speaks the same language, the
most complicated family on the block is simply divorced, amd
the most cultured person in town is your hisstory teacher,
who went to stanford. why the hell he came back, dont ask
me.
i'm surrounded by adults who believe they are the source of
knowledge, many of whom have never left the state, much less
the country. i want to break free from the shelter my
destiny has created for me. i dont want to be ignorant
anymore.
i spent too much time already being ignorant.




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