I'm currently living in a student dorm. The place is nice, but has a lot of Afghan exchange students around. It's not like I've got anything against them, but at times they make a lot of noise. Or maybe that was the students from India...


So anyways, my window is just right next to the entrance, though one floor up. It's a perfect strategic position for watching people up close when they're chatting right outside. I can easily see them, but they never look up. So I enjoy watching students enter and leave, thinking about how their daily lives are or what they are up to, creating small scenarios that I play out in my head.

I also realize this is creepy behavoiur. So while I'm watching a girl putting her bike in place while handling two smaller bags with flowers, this trail of thinking creeps up on me. I put myself in her position, imagining how I would react if I knew there was a complete stranger in the window one floor above looking down on me.

So there is a male student on the second floor behind a window looking down on a girl going about her everyday business. Except now the lurker starts smiling.