Ten

For the past few weeks i have working extra shifts at Isabellas Cafe and i have been also doing some work for the orphanage to try and get enough money to buy a plane ticket to Jamaica. I have started squaring away plans for my trip. I have packed my bags and I have been collecting food and clothing that I am going to take with me, I haven't collected much but I think that anything will help. Being an orphan myself I know what it's like to not have many personal belongings. I really think that if I go explore the world and make a different in other peoples life I will make a huge change in my life. I want to have meaning in my life. While I was packing the letter from my dad just sat there on my bed starring at me, telling me go out into the world. The letter is like the father I never had, pushing me to make the most of my life. I made sure to pack the letter in my things, since it did inspire this whole trip afterall. I also made sure that I put on the one item I had from my father, a small tweed bracket with my birthday on it; 5/13/89. Everyone at the orphanage was always curious about my braclet, the numbers became less and less legible as the years went on. This was a prized possession of mine because of the fact that most people from the orphanage didn't even know their birthday. It was almost as if my father gave it to me knowing he would give me up and wanting to make sure I kept my identity. When I turned eighteen the ladies at the orphanage tied extra string on the braclet so that I could wear it again since my wrist had grow a significant amount since I was four years old when I was dropped off. On my thirteenth birthday one of the cooks was giving me an extra piece of cake in the kitchen late at night. She noticed my braclet and asked me what it was, I explained its significagane and she told me that I needed to keep it forever, that my birthday was a sign, all of the numbers in my birthday were prime numbers. I never really understood the significance but I always thought that one day I would find some reason to believe that my birthday was special, and for that reason I have never taken the braclet off.