Author: Isabella Aldana

I’m from California

Where the sky is blue and clear

The air crisp and tangy

Where the summers are never too hot

The winters never too cold

The springs just perfect to play in the park

Eat mexican vanilla frozen ice every Friday

Smell tortillas every morning as my mother cooks breakfast

Hear the roosters early morning cries

I had thought as a child California would be my home forever

But life works in funny ways

We moved from place to place since I was 3

Nevada, Panama, Canada, Washington State, and now New York

My constant moving constantly troubling me now

No culture I can truly kin with

Compromising with who I truly am

Just me