April 2002
It was already dark outside, by the time I came home from my Spanish class. In my mind, I tried to calculate how long I’d still have to do my Biology homework, due the next day. Classes had barely started and we had bunch of exams the next week.
I opened my mailbox to check it, as I waited for the elevator to get to the ground floor. There were two items for me: Julia Michalski. The first one was something I had ordered online: a Thalia CD and a DVD that had been on sale: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
The other one was a magazine. On the front cover, two teenage girls held the United States flag in front of an airport. And in the center of the page, it read: Across the world: Foreign Exchange Program.
I dropped the magazine under my bureau shelf. On the top shelf, over ten snow globes sat lined up in a row. All of them had been gifts from my grandma, or from my paternal aunt who lived in the United States. I had gotten the first one years before, when my stepfather traveled to Miami on a work trip.
I looked again at the magazine cover. It was about time I got my own snow globes.
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Teen FictionWhat would you do if you had the chance to lead a new life for a year? No, this is not the plot of a Mexican Soap Opera. What Julia expected from her exchange year abroad in the United States was the typical life in a North American High School, wi...
