Watch for Gesture

She sits across the room at the front. She sits alone with her right leg crossed over her left. Not like a lady with her legs crossed tightly together but she sits with her leg loosely propped over the other with her lower calf on her knee. The foot that touches the ground bounces up and down from time to time alternating restless movement with her foot over her knee that rocks up and down. She also rocks back and forth in a shift of movement as she puts her foot thats over her knee up against the leg of the desk in front of her. Her jacket sits behind her laid over the back of her chair as she sits in a T-shirt. She slouches over as she holds herself in a low arm cross with her hands holding her forearms. One hand olds a white tissue over a scratched bug bite on the underside of her forearm. Here and there she pushes her glasses up her nose with her pointer finger at the center of the glasses frame and tucks her dish water blonde hair behind her ears. She scrunches her eyebrows together in a concerned look with a pronounced frown in her lip. She shows a light smile as the professor hands out strange chalky disks of a candy none of us have seen before. Her concerned frowny look returns to her face as her mouth reacts to the strange sweet. At the end of her endeavor in trying the sweet, she pulls her lower lip under her upper lip and shifts in her seat to notice the rest of the classes reaction to the crusty candy.

One thought on “Watch for Gesture

  1. “Not like a lady…” What are you saying, Elsie?

    Lots of good objective detail, all working together for a big picture.

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