The Library
When I was sixteen years old I became a member of the "Artigas-Washington" library. It was an important step in my life because Uruguay was always a poor country and our libraries were small with old books. I read "Hojas de Hierba" (Leaves of Grass) by Walt Whitman so many times that some important woman who came from The United States gave me the book. I enjoyed the Democracy Poet very much, but I used the library mostly for borrowing science books. I went every week to read magazines such as Science and Nature. At some time in my life I was adicted to the articles of Steefen Jay Gould.
I think that libraries are the soul of the cities. It was the first place that I went when I came to Worcester. It is the biggest library that I know. I started the conversation meetings a month after arriving and it has allowed me to find links with this culture.
3 comments:
"Lakale"
Should I submit your library story to Do the Write Thing???
I didn't write it for Do the Write Thing, but you can submit it, why not?
"Lakale",
I will submit it to Do the Write Thing, but you have to come in to sign the 2006 Permission to Publish form. BUREAUCRACY! Are youy coming on Wednesday?----Also, I will have to edit it again and make those capital letter corrections into small letters.---Oh, one more thing: I will need to know your new address for the Do the Write Thing form.
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