Diary Entry by: Ali | Illustrations by: Jackie Pierson
Well Journal, I am starting to write about my adventure out west. I am on the plane headed for Seattle with my mom and dad. As I look out the plane window I am shocked by Earth. The land seems to be swirling and mixing together, green mountains in cracked desert. I believe we are over Montana, but I don't know. There doesn't seem to be many streets around... I am just shocked because all the terrain I've ever flown over is farmland or cities. LAND PARCELS. Thinking a lot about the removal of Native People. How hard it must have initially been to travel through this terrain by horse or foot. So many deaths. My perception of the West is pretty non existent so I am excited to slowly shape truth. That's enough for now... getting a little sickie.
- Ali, 23
