It’s like life lit up in color since my family came home, after being in some kind of black-and-white world for a long time
I’M ready for school a whole half hour early, which means I have time for a full-on hot breakfast.
“I’ll drive you today,” Ima says, smiling at me and then turning back to the pan to flip the next pancake. She’s dressed up, a trendy outfit that Aunt Chana probably chose on one of their sisterly shopping trips. I’m secretly happy.
After all, it’s the first time I’m bringing her into school with me.
Tomorrow’s the last day of the school year; today is PBY’s annual exhibition. It’s a major event, there’s a schoolwide theme, and then each class receives a sub-theme and we have to create projects in groups. Posters, 3D models, whatever, and graded written reports too (of course).
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