A Woman's Flight Chapter 23

Unlike Ashley, Alice just had on a simple pair of jeans and a simple red t-shirt that was a couple sizes too big and glasses that were a little crooked. Somehow Rebecca knew that her and Alice would probably become friends. Glad to be done with her awkward first encounter with her roommate, Rebecca eagerly took the chance to go meet some of her other dorm mates.

Rebecca asked Alice,” So where are you from?" Alice pushed up her glasses as she responded,” I come from Oakland, If you can believe that. But I was really born in Switzerland and our family immigrated here when I was 2. I don’t remember much. There are still some things I do remember sometimes though. I have spent most of my life in California.”

Alice was just about to ask Rebecca where she was from when Ashley cut in,” So you used to live in Oakland. I hear that Oakland is really poor. You don’t look like you’re poor though. And you definitely don’t look like you used to live in Switzerland. You look like you belong in Ireland or something like that. But I guess you can’t help that you came from Switzerland and that you came from a place as poor as Oakland.”

Ashley must have seen that look on Alice’s face, because she changed the subject very quickly but before Ashley could even start to say something else Alice said with an almost impeccable Irish accent, ”Well it’s a good thing I don’t have the Irish temper or else you’d be in really big trouble. Us people in Switzerland or more known for being passive than anything else.”

Rebecca just had to give a little smirk at that little remark. If she had been able she would have said ”You go girl.” She figured it might not be the most appropriate time to say it though. At least she could see that Alice didn’t mind standing up to these types of girls and putting them in their place. She was starting to like Alice more and more.

As they started to leave the dorms and actually head toward the dining room Rebecca was taken aback by the size of the dining area. She had seen it in the brochure, but she didn’t expect it to look as impressive at it did. Her current roommate issues disappeared as she basked in the idea that she was going to be eating in a hall this nice. You could tell Ashley was impressed as well. Alice just looked up with this look of wide eyed wonder as more people started to poor in the common dining hall.

Rebecca was most impressed by how many different types of people she saw. Some people were identifiably asian, while there were quite a bit of students that looked like they were of middle eastern descent. She could see some black and mexicans here and there, but she was most surprised to see how many asians and middle eastern people there were.

She wondered if they had all come from different parts of the world or if they had lived in America there whole lives and just transferred in from different parts of California. In her town in Texas, you might see your occasional black person that would come through. Every once in awhile you might see a mexican here or there but she had never come into contact with so many different types of people in one place. It was overwhelming but wonderful at the same time. She wanted to say hello to all of them and to know all their stories.

There was a part of her that wanted to know if everyone had come from as far as she had or if they had lived in California their whole lives. As Rebecca made her way into the actual dining room, Ashley made a high pitch squeal. She almost knocked Rebecca over as she bolted through the dining hall. At the end of the hall was a girl who was a little shorter, just as blonde, and just as thin as Ashley.

As they all poured into the dining hall, Ashley quickly left Rebecca behind as she went to meet her other friend. It didn't take Rebecca very long to see why she was such good friends with this girl. Her name was Angel and she had gone to the same high school as Ashley. Rebecca just cursed her luck. She could hardly deal with Ashley without having to deal with her equally ignorant and bleach blonde lackey.