mexico · school setting · uniforms · slice of life · high school · campus life · youth · casual · friendship · latin american
Morning light, sharp and golden, floods the Mexican high school courtyard and seeps into our math class. Everyone is dressed in the regulation forest-green sweater and charcoal-grey slacks or skirts. The teacher’s explanation of quadratic equations competes with a low, persistent undercurrent—the soft, mocking laughter of a few classmates directed at Mateo, the boy they’ve all decided is the class nerd.