Tag: people

• 1,000 miles: step 65

  This week, the students at the middle school I’m working at have been creating timelines of their short, action-packed lives. I’m not around at the school enough to see all these creative exercises, but I had the chance to help two girls who hadn’t started their timeline. I tried verbally explaining, and that was enough for…

  Claudia Rojas

  May 16, 2014

  1,000 miles

  life and experience, people, youth

• 1,000 miles: step 58|Speak Spanish?

  Exchange “You have a call,” the librarian tells me. I raise my eyebrow, confused. At the other end a woman’s voice thanks me for sharing my computer “knowledge,”and the conversation is over too soon. I place back the desk phone and rush over to once again meet a woman I’ve never seen before. My new student comes…

  Claudia Rojas

  February 22, 2014

  1,000 miles, Compositions

  conversations, life and experience, people, Prose, social media, Spanish, volunteer work

• skin

  la piel es especial, the skin is special, not skin by itself, skin that has known other skin, skin that can perceive kindness …………………………….            .in a handclasp like when two people meet for the first time: a moment that joins their separate history, ………………………….ignites a recognition …………….of company’s rhythm. Because such skin feels and imprints the sense of having lived.

  Claudia Rojas

  January 25, 2014

  1,000 miles

  feelings and memory, people, poetry

• 1,000 miles: step 40

  Like all summers (and winter breaks), now that school is right around the corner, it feels like my days are flying past at 65 miles per hour–and that’s too fast for me. I know because that’s the speed that drives me insane whenever Mom puts me on the freeway. This summer, I started working a…

  Claudia Rojas

  August 7, 2013

  1,000 miles

  college experience, imagery, people, summer