alittlef2022
June 23, 2022
As a pre-teen in an overcast Pittsburgh, I had to take a "computer class." During a Google searching exercise one day, I stumbled upon images of an island in French Polynesia, Bora Bora. From the fluorescent classroom, I stared at grainy pictures of these perfect round thatched roofs on thin stilts in a clear, turquoise ocean. Ladders that led from the bedrooms straight into the water. I printed the pictures and showed them to my best friend Eli later that day. We opened our first bank accounts that week to start saving to move there permanently together—the first of so many Bora Boras.