I have to do an animal drawing in honor of the girl in 3F who died. Apparently, she liked to draw them quite a bit. Just the opposite of me, but it sounds sweet. I'm thinking of doing a cuttlefish (God's nobelest creature), or perhaps a giraffe, as they say she liked those. I hardly remember her-- we sat together in maths once, and she was all smiles while she showed me how to use the weird computer system to graph an equation. That was it. She dropped out of school shortly after that, and I didn't even notice her absence. Now she's dead, apparently from a long battle against Leukemia. It's kind of surreal. Priests have been conducting prayer services at the school all week, and our profs, all of terzeF and a good portion of the girls in quatreF have been crying on and off.

I'm not very upset, which sounds cruel but it's true. I just can't muster up deep emotion about her death. I mean, I'm sad for her family, and that she was unable to live a full life. But she was happy, and from what I've heard, she was at peace with going. She believed in heaven, and was excited "a vedere Gesù," according to a journal entry of hers they distributed to the school.

Tonight there's going to be a memorial service for her at the school, and our drawings are supposed to be finished by then, so we can put them on display beside her own work. I'd better get started.