April 15, 1998
Dear Diary,
Sorry I haven't been able to write in a while! Things have been happening at school, like Claire hooking up with Max, a teacher getting fired, a teacher getting hired, and not to mention Coach Leon's 50 laps around our gym every single P.E. period. Things don't exactly get that much easier after school either. Especially since this is New York. There is always a traffic jam after school, and either you have to catch a cab, your parents pick you up, or you're walking home! People smoke everywhere here so the air is really nasty. And restaurants sometimes leave all their trash outside. Manhattan isn't that pleasant of a place to live! Anyway, I think Dallas and I are getting on better. We're talking a lot more between passing periods and occasionally late for our classes because of that! I really hope that he notices me soon. I like him a lot. Oh yeah, I'll also be leaving my diary here in this basement because my brother almost got to it yesterday.
~Julie
