Blog about Lorene Cary

While reading the different excerpts from this book, one of the stories that really stood out to me was the story of Lorene Cary, From Black Ice. She stepped out of her comfort zone and her boundaries to attend St. Paul's boarding school. This had to take a lot of courage because the population of this school was mostly of Caucasian descent. She had a lot of strength to go through this and step into a new world where she would experience different things and new ideas. She learned many things about basic things like tollhouse cookies and rock groups. She made an instant connection with the girls when they were talking about how their calves killed because of sports and they could barely walk up the stairs without aching pain. This was important that she felt comfortable because she felt like she could finally be herself and not be worried or scared about her skin color. They had a little altercation when the conversation of black and white came up but she kept her mouth shut becasue she did not want to start a big fight but the girls knew she was upset. She seemed to accell in school and this was good because the sole reason she went to St. Pauls was to get a good education and become a better learner. At the end of this story, she explains how she was playing a soccer game and she was playing so hard that she knocked a boy over and caused him to break his leg. This just shows how determined she is in whatever she does and that is always a good quality to have because one should always try their best at all times. I thought this story was very inspiring because it was not usual for people of African American descent to do such a task like this and she did and she never gave up.