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Jack Chambers

1st April 2009

I’d never been to Mexico before. The scorching sun and sidewinding streets charms are starting to overcome my medieval preconceptions. This morning a staggered journey lead me into stumbling through a conversation with the aged fishmonger in the market, the very same foreboding market that daunted me to the point of fear some days ago. Sammi seems just as excited as me. I can already hear the local accent enticing her heavy British tongue, and I’m currently watching her attempt to play football with the local orphans. As much to their amusement as it is mine.

None of this felt real until Sunday. Stepping off the plane felt like stepping off a building. The raw, dolorous pain that engulfed me as I took the plunge into the unknown had lulled me into thinking the figures of Mexico City were elements of a nightmare. Ironic that weeks before I was using every and any paper-thin reason I could to persuade Sammi that this was the right idea. She eventually succumbed, love providing a stronger bond than reason. I still haven’t told her the real turning point that made me want to do this. I suppose I felt it better unsaid. My father is the true reason we’re here.

Throughout my last year at Cambridge he would constantly announce his “overwhelming sense of pride” at the fact that his son was following him into the world of medicine, at every opportunity he could grasp, then choke. Be it at a dinner party or during forced interaction over a supermarket till, he would unashamedly divulge into tales of me graduating and taking a place by his side controlling the NHS Cancer Commission. One tenebrous, somber day, I found myself shackled to my father in an equally dreary university outfitters in search of graduation gowns. As my father browsed through the gowns and I browsed through the insides of my eyelids, The door swung open, quickly followed by the unmistakably exuberant chuckle of Cambridge’s Vice Chancellor, Leszek Borysiewicz, or Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz for his full title.

Not only did my father work alongside Borysiewicz for many years, but they have been close friends for a lifetime, and if anyone knew of my fathers dreams of family success, it was him. The laugh had ignited a flame in my father as he instantly dropped a gown like a child dropping a pen as the breaktime bell went. In the few seconds it took for my father to greet Borysiewicz, his eyes erupted with sheer elation

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I've stopped reading 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' as I don't enjoy reading books that bore me that much. I've started reading 'Under The Dome' by Stephen King, mainly just because I think I need to read more. I'm also re-reading 'I Am Legend'

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The Token Summer Post

After getting a D in my English Lang & Lit AS, i feel like I'm in desperate need to get motivated (and yes, I am retaking the exam).

I finished reading 'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson early on in the holidays. I thought it was very engaging in the way the narrative built up to the defining moment when the main character, Robert Neville, understands that he is seen as a figure of evil to the dwellers of the night, as Vampires were to humans before the outbreak.

I'm looking for another Pandemic book to read but until then I'm reading 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'

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The topic I have chosen to is 'Global Epidemics'

I am currently reading 'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson, which I hope to use as a core text, but am awaiting approval from the exam board.

Other books I may look into are 'Blindness' by Jose Saramango and 'The Plague' by Albert Camus.

Thanks for reading :D

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