Practice [Post #4]

Reveal the character of someone you don't know through his or her actions. Actions may be as small as gestures made by the hands or as large as decisions made in the face of a great crisis.

My sister sat at her desk. Her computer played music, foreign lyrics echoed from the loud speakers and filled the room as she bent over her desk, pencil in one hand and tediously scratched in her math answers. In another hand rested a calculator, solar-powered, and ready to do the math. Suddenly, she placed the calculator on the desk and reached up to scratch at an itch on her head--it might have been due to her winter hat. She wore her winter hat sometimes inside, especially if her hair was wet, to keep the wild strands tame. And then she was back to work again. This time, she curled her legs closer to her chest, in a fetal position almost, and looked up just as the song switched to another.