I sat in our big gray lounger chair, snuggling the baby on
my chest. I rocked back and forth, ignoring the slight squeak produced each
time I pushed off the hardwood floor with my foot. As I read the first few
chapters of my new library book, I Will Always Write Back by Caitlyn Alifirenka
and Martin Ganda… I had to reread sentences and paragraphs over and over again
since I had so much in common with Caitlyn! I too was in middle school in 1997
and 1998 and loved Spice Girls and was more focused on boys and crushes than on
school. This pretty much sums up the way
my reading went…
“I passed her a note that read MATT IS SO HOT. I AM FREAKING
OUT!”
How many notes I
passed to friends about how many boys! Ha! I even had “the blue book” with
Ashley to write notes back and forth in 8th grade. It was so hot
that even some of the boys…the cute guys…ended up writing in it!
...
“We started dating in late November, and then broke up a
week later.”
OMG! That’s like all
of 6th grade for me! TJ and Craig and Stephen and Chris! Chris and I
“went out” for all of one weekend (that we didn’t even see each other or talk
to each other)! Now I can see that we were all just approximating relationships
just as preschool kids approximate writing and reading!
...
“I could always tell Martin’s letters from the rest of the
mail. They looked and felt different- thinner paper, more exotic and colorful
stamps.”
Man! I remember
getting letters from our previous exchange students and thinking the exact same
thing. It didn’t matter if the letters came from Spain, Finland, Sweden,
France, Belgium, or Brazil…I could instantly spot an exciting international
letter in my family’s pile of mail. I always wanted to be the first one to open
it. The family that my cousin had lived with in Belgium always sent the best
letters since two of their kids were my brother and my age and they always sent
drawings and stickers that were so different from our American ones. Sometimes
they even sent marshmallows. Even the marshmallows tasted better than ours!
...
I can’t wait to read the rest of this book!
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