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Avatar Author: Gradual Uprising {LoA} "There are few sights sadder than a ruined book." -Lemony Snicket Hi. I am a 16-year-old, American student currently living in Spain, and I have found myself forgetting my English vocabulary. My full name is Drew Micha... Read Bio

After moving to THE CITY, everything became bigger; the two level McDonalds, the eight level shopping center, the thirty level office building, etc. Everything became faster, too.

In Ohio, I’d drive my car for 45 minutes to get to school. Then I’d drive 45 minutes at the end of the day to come back. This was my normal routine, but now I have an overlapping web of public transportation.

Should I take a bus?
The metro?
A taxi?
Should I walk?
Maybe I’ll bike.
I didn’t even know there was something called a Metrobus.

However, I actually find it a bit relaxing…to be amidst the busy, city life, and not be in a hurry. So my pastime has become riding the metro while studying. Before my last history exam, I took the metro from one end to the other, all across the map, several times, while reading the chapters in my Spanish History book. Proud to say that I passed.

What drives some people completely insane about the city, is what gives me sanctuary.

-Grad Up

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  1. Avatar Gradual Uprising {LoA}

    All of this is 100% true.
    A genuine letter from me to you.

  2. Avatar Mostly Harmless

    Considering this is true fact, it’s great that you’ve made it so readable, where it could have been self-centred and meaningless, it has some bigger themes in there about city, life, even revision techniques!?

    I would reccommend capitalising the starts of your sentences even on the list of transport methods however, being a grammar freak… Good work, nice piece. MH :)

  3. Avatar Mr.Gabriel

    The city is amazing.

    Small towns are for small people.

  4. Avatar Real Estate Writer

    Two wins I’m impressed and proud.

  5. Avatar Gradual Uprising {LoA}

    ha I didn’t know I won. :) thnx

  6. Avatar Lighty

    I love the casual feeling of this even within the smoothness of the writing. My favourite bit is the list of transport, I’m not quite sure why, it just is. The last two lines of that paragraph especially.

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