Geeks rock
I just found another lovely place at school where I can kill time or seek refuge from the rest of the world. That place is the library.
When I was in fourth grade, I won this award from my school for being the student who borrowed the most number of books for the year. Everyday at lunch time, I would go to the library and spend the rest of the period sitting quietly, devouring one book after another. I know it sounds so antisocial, but I don’t think I went there because I wanted to avoid people. I guess I simply loved reading and being surrounded by so many books. I still do.
Which is why I felt like a fourth grader again when I saw the second and third floor of the school library. I’ve been to the library a few times during the last semester, but for some reason I had this impression that students can only stay in the first floor. I wanted to get a copy of Mrs. Dalloway but I was told that reference books are the only books in the first floor. So I ventured upstairs and was taken aback when I saw the rows and rows of books. Whoa. I guess I got used to the small library of my crummy high school–I never thought so many books could exist in one place. My jaw dropped open and I happily walked in between bookshelves the way a country girl would walk in between rows of corn. I held out an arm as I walked and my fingernails scraped at the hard covers of the books. I was truly in my element. It took me a while but I managed to find Mrs. Dalloway somewhere in the third floor. I wanted to spend more time checking out the other books but my blockmates were waiting for me. I made a mental note to go there sometime soon.
I sound like such a geek, getting all excited and happy about a library. But then Ponci told me, “You have to be a geek if you want to stay in Ateneo.” Fair enough. Hopefully my love for reading will lessen my chances of being a college dropout.
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oooo…that’s such a good book. Once you’re done it you should really read ‘The Hours’ by Micheal Cunningham. It’s the book the movie ‘The Hours’ was based on, and it’s kind of a different version of Mrs. Dalloway - great stuff.
I love going in at lunch, sitting peacefully reading in the library.
It’s truly fun for me to find great new books and read them.
Reminds me of when I went to the Mesa Public Library and Phoenix and was astounded by how many books there were! It was three stories high and was filled with everything imaginable: a huge room just for magazines, rows and rows of computers, another huge room just for newspapers– it was so different compared to my crummy town public library.
ahhh.. the library.. so many fond memories. it’s the place where i started getting to know the people in highschool who are my closest friends now.. it’s where we stay when we wanted to cut classes, read countless teen fictions and hehe, scope out our crushes. ahh.. i love that place.. i even have some ‘unreturned’ books in my bookcase