neunundneunzehg luftballons

well, today was an interesting day at work. apparently, our ice machine was leaking water, and we had an older lady slip and fall. at first i was afraid she'd broken something, but the worst of it, i think, was that she'd hit her head and she had a cut around her eye from her glasses that was bleeding pretty badly. they called an ambulance, though, just to be safe, and everyone was gawking and staring and asking what happened.

thursday night was our summer academy presentation for upward bound. since our theme all summer has been the science of art, our presentation was 'a night at a german kaffehouse' (and i know i spelled that wrong). we all got to dress in black and be beatniks, and it was quite fun. and then melinda and her tech whiz brother had put together slideshows of pictures of us spliced with music videos, so me and abby and brij and karma and jesse and a few others were all dancing on the sides of the room and having a good time. and then we did a singalong to the 80s song 99 luftballons by nena, in original german, and it was fun, but sad also, because me and abby decided the song was dedicated to dieter, our german teacher, because we might not ever see him again, as he's not coming to chicago. he hadn't realized that yet, when we pointed it out to him, and he seemed to be in denial of that fact, and said he'd visit during saturday academys.

and i am still slowly posting mexico posts, i've got the first three up now.



ninetynine dreams i have had, in everyone a red balloon. its all over and i'm standing pretty, in this dust that was a city. if i could find a souveneir, just to prove the world was here...and here is a red balloon, i think of you and let it go.