Prologue
NYA LEE's POV
My body clashed into another body as we both fell down.
"Perdón,” we both said at the same time. I caught a glimpse of la camisa del chico; it had the words, IN GOD WE TRUST engraved onto his shirt. At the time, I didn’t know much about God, only that he was to be worshiped through church, because without him, how would we have any of this?
Discreetly, I left the house of my neighbor’s and sat under a tree with my tablet and searched up the meaning of God, if he/she/it/they exists, etc.
This is all so confusing!
That’s what 8-year-old me thought at the time.
A ver, growing up in a multi-racial community meant having lots of experience when it comes to learning about different cultures and religions. I was naturally curious como una niña. Always wanting to learn more and more every single day. It hasn’t changed since then. Honestly, I can’t wait ’til tomorrow; it’s the first day of high school. Most people would probably hate, or like, I don’t know; I don’t know how people think, but I wish I did; I ponder it a lot. Pero espero que my ELA teacher, Mrs. Collins gives us a Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years assignment to do; A mí me gustan mucho, especially since we have tons of creative potential to write about. I really want to talk about MBTI (Myers-Briggs Test Indicator). It’s basically a online personality test that has close to 100 preguntas and basically gives you responses like:
I get tired after being around so much social interaction.
Or:
I like planning out my day step-by-step to ensure maximum efficiency in my work.
And then you’ll have a type of scale kind of, one side being Strongly Disagree and the other being Strongly Agree and from the scale, you pick whichever circle that you best correlate yourself to.
Cuando I first took this test durante el verano, I got tested as an INFP-T, which basically made me a Turbulent INFP. Y tenía que hacer more research over the summer to basically confirm I was one. People on Reddit have spoken ’bout how el examen is flawed and basically bogus because it gives responses that aren’t clear enough like if you are more logical or emotional. After some hard over-analyzing for dos meses, I was 110% sure I was an INFP.
Bueno, enough of me rambling. I’m gonna turn the tables over to more important matters, like my family. I don’t have many people in my family; just my mom and dad. My mom has 6 siblings on her side while my dad has three. My mom only had sisters growing up and my dad only had brothers growing up. They figured I would always be bored, so they usually sent me to una casa de unos de mis primos. I'm grateful that they did this, but I felt much better in my own head. In my own little world. I liked to daydream about anything and everything. I still do that to this day, but it's more about realistic events like my future or my crush or different shows.
Now, I bet y'all have a few questions, or maybe you don't and that's fine too. Maybe you are wondering how I know some Spanish. Remember how I told you all that I grew up in a multi-racial community? Yeah. I have multiple friends that speak Spanish; two are my best friends, one is of Mexican ethnicity and the other is of Colombian ethnicity. At times, we speak in Spanish. I'm usually more of a listener, but there are times where I do speak up and say a few words here and there.
Speaking of my friends, we're about to videochat. I'm planning on doing that for the rest of the night, or until my mom yells at me to go to bed. Tomorrow awaits.
