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Playground

Grow up! Society says.

Be a man! People say.

Be responsible! School says.

 

I grow up too fast

because they want me to,

leave my young self in the past

because I have to.

Stop going to the playground

because that‘s only for children.

 

Grow up! Everybody is.

You are such a child!

And please don’t cry.

Go lock that child

deep down, somewhere you can’t find.

Lock that child. 

Stop running wild.

Stop asking why.

Until I forget that smile.

When I see a playground.

Me Mask

These images are the picture of me covering my face with objects that I find in my apartment. Thus, it accidentally represents my identity and a thing that I am having fun doing which is cooking. Cooking is something that most international students must do because it is very expensive to eat in a restaurant even in fast food restaurants. However, I am using the time when I am cooking and grocery shopping to relax myself from school work. Therefore, I am using the time that I am cooking to be somewhat time to meditate and be with myself and connected to my own or other culture through food. I feel that I belong somewhere when I am cooking, unlike when I am outside surrounded by places that I do not know, people who speak different languages than me, and people who don't look much like me. I feel that I am………… home.

Just a walk with my favorite people in the whole world

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