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Plastic Bag Lunch Girl

I was what my mother always called a "special child" because I have special dietary needs and special physical restrictions--I have type 1 diabetes. My mother attended preschool with me so that she could make sure I ate all the right foods--plain pancakes without syrup, cereal with exactly four ounces of milk, one hard-boiled egg--and essentially that nothing bad would happen to me. She sometimes even napped with the class during nap-time. I don't remember much from kindergarten, but starting from first grade, I was on my own for lunch. My mother could no longer be by my side for the entire day, every day. So, every day during lunch, I would go to the nurse's office to check my blood sugar and have the nurse give me insulin (since I had not yet learned to do it myself). Then, I would impatiently wait for my mother to arrive with my lunch. I don't remember what job she had at the time, but every day, she would stop doing whatever she was doing in the middle of the

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I can't believe I didn't blog at all in December! So, so sad. Winter break is coming to an end. School resumes on Monday the 9th, and I cannot wait for summer break already. I'm glad we got four weeks this winter break, though. Otherwise, it would have ended last week, when I was still consistently sleeping at 3 in the morning. This post will just be an update on everything, as opposed to an explication of one of my philosophies or ideas. Last night, I finally signed up for this year's Shakespeare travel study program in England. The $300 non-refundable deposit basically guarantees that I will be attending unless some extenuating circumstance presents itself. Otherwise, this means I will have to start saving up like crazy, because there ain't no such thing as a free lunch, especially in good ol' England! Since freshman year (can't believe it was just last year), I have known that I wanted to participate in this program because I have heard so many great desc