Hello. My name is Esperanza Xavier. I could be any age, in any time, I could live anywhere, in any time. The only thing you'll know for sure about me is that I'm the author, the one who's writing Ariel's story. (And I assume that's how you got to this page. If not, you can click on the link above to know what I'm talking about.) Well. Anyway, I suppose this is supposed to be some sort of introduction. Hmm. You know what. Introductions are always a bit too much of a relative concept. I mean, you know, it all depends on who you are and who I am, and I could probably introduce myself very differently to different people.
Oh well. I guess since this is one of those large-scale things, I'd better be more conclusive.
Oh, that reminds me. If you're one of those spammers, perverts, abductors who fool people into believing you're some 14 year old sweet lass, sorry, no go here. This ain't gonna work here, you're wasting your time.
Well, I suppose you figured out already that I'm a writer, very very smart of you, I must say. *sarcasm*
Here are some other things you might be interested to know about me:

1. I’m a reader (of contemporary and teenage/young-adult/realism-adult fiction, mostly.)
2. I like U2’s new album: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
3. I support hippies.
4. I like makeup and jewellery and clothes and shoes. Correction, I LOVE them.
5. I love listening to loads and loads of different kinds of music.
6. I don’t much like Billy Joel’s song, We Didn’t Start The Fire.
7. Libraries are my resort.
8. I have never scribbled in a telephone directory, but it actually could be interesting.
9. I have skipped through The Year of Secret Assignments, so don't try telling me you’re a fish.
10. I love history. But I don't like archaeology.
11. I love Nelly Furtado.
12. I love making collages and collecting magazine pictures, especially from useless magazines like Elle and Vogue (pardon me, people who love those magazines.)
13. I love surfing the net, making websites, joining websites (particular ones, that is), emailing, chatting, and photography interests me.
14. I like beads, but I'm tired of working with them. At one point, I was crazy about working with them.
15. I like skipping rope, rather than jumping rope.
16. I hate all sports except for swimming. Ice skating, roller-skating and gymnastics vaguely interest me, though.
17. I love dancing on polished floors.
18. I like to borrow loads of books from the library at a time.
19. I just moved from India to the US. Yes, I know it's amazing. Yes, it's very nice here. [finished yet with your small chitchat questions about this?! Hey, I’m just joking. I’m not really the truant officer in New York Minute.]
20. Recently I realised math could be interesting.
21. I love acting and drama.
22. I like to watch good movies, but I don’t watch TV anymore.
23. I love philosophy.
24. Psychology interests me.
25. I plan to travel around the world.
26. I admire dancers.
27. I love music and dance.
28. I love musicality and auras.
29. I'interested in webdesign, kinda. But not really very experienced at all at it, or that good at it.
30. I would never want to define myself as anything.
31. I'm a leftist.

All the things I'm not:

1. a goth
2. a preppie
3. a jock
4. a kitten
5. a doll
6. a punk
7. a techie
8. a nerd
9. a geek
10. a smartass
11. studious
12. competitive
13. sporty
14. a lover of the colour pink
15. girly
16. boyish
17. tomboyish
18. old-fashioned/conservative
19. a Republican or another one of those right-wing things
20. a liar
21. intolerant or close-minded
22. stupid or dumb
23. a psychofreak
24. racist, sexist or prejudiced
25. a condoner of the death sentence
26. an action figure
27. a toy
28. a machine
29. a spammer
30. a horrible person
31. the person you are looking for.

I like having epals who satisfy the following conditions (so read carefully, if you want to contact me):

1. under the age of 20 (20 not included.)
2. who never send me forwarded messages. (Note: forwarded messages include normal fwd messages, but also copy and paste messages, forward-this-IM messages, copy and paste this IM messages, messages saying this-is-not-a-forwarded-message.)
3. who never send me spam.
4. who never ask me business requests or pleas for money. (Sorry. I don't have any.)
5. who never send me those kind of messages like someone is sick and dying, so please forward this message onwards/send some help. that just is one big hoax and a stupid wastage of time.
6. who never send me junk mail in general.
7. who are not interested in online dating.
8. who are not old men/abductors pretending to be innocent teenagers.
9. who are not pretenders/liars.
10. who write emails longer than 1-2 lines.
11. who start email first, rather than chatting.
12. who take friendship seriously.
13. who won't just suddenly stop writing.
14. who write long and interesting emails.
15. who are not violent.

I know that's a lot of requests, but I don't care. Otherwise, I don't mind about your personal preferences, whether you're a boy or a girl, what you look like and so on.
Wow, so you're gonna take a chance... lol, just kidding. Click here to email me.
links:

My fictionpress site
a profile of me