hot, sizzling days
my grandmother passed away last wednesday. it was hard being so far away. i wish i could’ve been at home to see her. everything i heard about her during her last month was through my family. i couldn’t see her and get a sense of how she was doing. my family says she was really sick and was in pain but wanted to wait for her all her children to be there before she went. when they all arrived, she passed away the next day. besides continuing life here as normal and regularly thinking of her, i didn’t know what else to do. i’m doing ok now. sometimes it doesn’t seem like it really happened. but i struggle with the idea of where she is right now…i read through passages of life after death…and my heart wants so much to be where i hope for her to be…
keeping busy has definitely helped. today i learned how to do something really neat, and we applied what we learned immediately. i was very proud of myself. brave and bold…brave and bold! and the people i shared my newly attained skills with were really, really engaged and receptive and wanted more.
on saturday, my roomie, a few friends and i went to the jay chow concert. yeah baby! my first concert here. it was almost like a grand fireworks show + jay chow as the side dish. but of course jay chow was great. so hot…not only can he play every single instrument in the world, he can also dance!
next week we have friends from the states visiting. so that’ll keep us really, really busy.
summer is here. so it’s been sizzling hot. and as a spoiled pacific northwest native, all i want to do is hide at home to escape the summer heat, but i can’t. woe to me.
the other day i dreamed about running around greenlake. i miss the nice, quiet, serene, beautiful greenlake that was only two blocks away from home, then getting gelatto after a nice walk/ run. i think about going for a nice run but then i don’t want to because 1) i’ll realize how out-of-shape i am, and 2) i truly don’t enjoy running but i don’t know why i really want to do it 3) because i can’t find a place like greenlake…nice trail, quiet, clean air, and 2 blocks from home.
school last week was really fun. we managed to convince our teacher to take us out to eat on monday during class…kekeke…then we convinced another teacher to not give us a final but instead watch a movie…kekeke…and convinced another teacher to have class outside near the school fountain. and when we were actually in class, we tried to distract the teachers by asking a lot of questions about their life so we wouldn’t have to do the lesson…kekeke…things are so incredibly flexible here. i like it.
two foreigner friends said i look mexican…mexican?
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