The diary of me, Katherine Barlow.
Hey. My name is Miss Katherine Barlow, and I am a teacher at Green lake school. I've lived out by the lake all of my life. It is so beautiful there, just like seeing snow for the first time. In the summer I take my pupils up into the banks of the lake, and we search for crabs in the rock pools. Even I hitch up my skirt and splash about with the children in the lake. But the most amazing part of it is watching the sunset at the end of a long, tiring day and seeing the incredible way the lights dip and shine against the cool colours of the waves. It's like watching your very own lights show, free of charge!
That's not the most amazing part of the lake however. For it is what lies on the lake that holds us all so very close. And also what travels upon it.
As I write this I catch a glimpse of my paradise island, glittering with love, devotion and a whole world of our own. For I caught a glimpse of the most cherished dreamboat, and its rider, Sam.
Sam is the town's onion man. He's a hardworking, wonderful, kind, generous and extremely handsome man who looks after the town with his "magic" onions. Everyone goes to him when they need help about anything, and his onions save the day.
But life just has to be cruel. Sam is also black. A nigger. A slave and a damn bastard nigger, as people say. And I love him. Why can't we just be in our own different world, separate from these monsters and sail away on Sam's dream boat to Paradise Island? But all of that is just a fantasy to me. That world is a dream, and I'm stuck in reality.
I'm sorry if this page is splattered now, for I will keep this forever and look back when perhaps the world has changed. But sadly, I don't think it ever will.
Now I sit and wait. Wait for when life will truly mean something to me. Wait for something to come. Wait for each day to end. Wait for each day to begin. Wait for feeling. Wait for love. Wait.