It’s 9 :38 pm and I and my three roommates at the hostel are tucked safely into our bunk beds. This room is the size of a closet and if I lived here permanently I’d get claustrophobic, but right now, it’s cozy. We all arrived in Paris early this morning, and we all made an effort […]

  …I was 10. And I wore my hair like that all the time. I’m leaving TODAY! Here, have a relevant song that I heard on the radio a few days ago. The video’s pretty cute, too… the original song is by Friendly Fires and I love them.

But I couldn’t. I realized this last night. My bag was already almost full. I still had shoes, shirts, pants, jackets, underwear, linen, towels and toiletries to fit in. My mother took one look at all the stuff I’d spread out on the bed, and another look at the suitcase sitting there, and told me […]