sjsprWriting

School is over next Thursday; not even a week left. Then we'll go to college and continue with our lives. Some people say that they're going to see each other often when they go to Boston, Philly, or New York. That's all a lie. To be honest, even though I often tell people that i'll definitely keep in touch them after we finish class, I know that that is far from the truth. I'll only keep in touch with a handful of my closest friends, if anything. I mean, do you blame me? I want to go to Lehigh and meet new people, form new bonds, not be speaking with the same people I grew up with in high school, like many other Puertoricans do. You see, that whole Puertorican experience many people go through in which they are raised with the same people during elementary school, continue hanging out with them during high school, then all go to the same states (Boston and New York, for example) to continue being with them and hang out with other Puertoricans is simply not my thing. I really, and I mean REALLY don't want to go to college and be stuck with the Puertorican/Latino crowd many people choose to join. I want change. I don't want to go to college to basically relive high school, with the same crowd, having the same conversations.

And something else, I plan on staying in the United States when I graduate. Not because I don't like the people from Puerto Rico (I do like them, a lot actually, they're my people), but because Puerto Rico sucks and it's basically an opportunity wasteland. The United States does it better.