Hello friends & family!
I'm back in the US now, been here for going on 3 weeks. I left the UK on the 15th, right after I woke up early to call my airline and ask to push back my return flight until the 10th of January. Granted, I wasn't planning on it being the 10th. I was planning on it being...oh, the 2nd. The 3rd. Maybe the 4th or 5th. But they told me it'd be cheaper, so I did it.
I got home and spent a lovely 2 weeks with my family, including my 5 amazing cats and my 2 loving grandparents and aunt & uncle who all came down for the holidays. We had Solstice, Christmas and Chanukah (roughly) together and it was fantastic. It didn't snow (except in Cambridge, which happened for 2 days, the day after I left...just as in Amsterdam!) but we had a rosy, cosy time.
On the 31st, my fams took me into DC where I caught a cheap bus up to NYC. We arrived in 3 1/2 hours--I kid you not--and then, there I was! I stayed with a friend in lower Brooklyn for 2 days before peacing out again for Connecticut on the 2nd, with three really truly awesome Wesleyan friends. My time in New York wasn't simply a limbo, period, though, as I spent it chillaxin' with my best friends from Wesleyan who happened to be exactly in the area, exactly during the dates I was there, and also with my close, dear aunt who came in with her boyfriend to spend some time (and a lovely vegan lunch!) with me. New Year's Eve was spent on the promenade in Brooklyn watching fireworks from both left and right cascade over downtown Manhattan.
I'm now staying off-campus in some of my friends' houses and looking forward to one of my other Wesleyan bffs to come back to town tomorrow (for which I cannot wait!). Food Not Bombs, the love of my LIFE!, is happening on Sunday as always, and I really can't wait to be there. I have longed after Middletown FnB since leaving and it's the biggest treat of my life to be here again for that.
And then back to Cambridge :) I'm feeling exceptionally good about that, since I miss all of my friends there, I miss skipping with them, I miss them playing various instruments and speaking many languages. I miss us experimenting with vegan dinner nights (without even such exotic substances as tofu, seitan, tempeh or soy protein). I hope it will snow. I'm looking forward to doing my work (!!!!), which I'm starting here. I want to get to know my professors better. I'm excited about our new Centre for Development Studies and moving into our new building closer to my abode on Sidgwick Street. I want to see Spring come to Cambridge. I want to come back to the UK eventually. I want to hear back from grad schools and see if maybe I should start looking for a job; I'm looking forward to planning out my life and also continuing to learn spontaneity. I want to plan a hitchhiking / cheap-bussing trip down to NC to see some Wes friends who are on an awesome intentional community organic farm there. I want to farm with them. I want to help with the Corpus Christi garden/farm that's just being planned. I'm looking forward to sinking into my duties as the new LGBTQ Rep on the Corpus MCR (Middle Common Room, the postgrad rep committee). I want to be awesome. I'm excited about my life!
And so Happy New Year('s) to all! xoxo :)
Me
I'm back in the US now, been here for going on 3 weeks. I left the UK on the 15th, right after I woke up early to call my airline and ask to push back my return flight until the 10th of January. Granted, I wasn't planning on it being the 10th. I was planning on it being...oh, the 2nd. The 3rd. Maybe the 4th or 5th. But they told me it'd be cheaper, so I did it.
I got home and spent a lovely 2 weeks with my family, including my 5 amazing cats and my 2 loving grandparents and aunt & uncle who all came down for the holidays. We had Solstice, Christmas and Chanukah (roughly) together and it was fantastic. It didn't snow (except in Cambridge, which happened for 2 days, the day after I left...just as in Amsterdam!) but we had a rosy, cosy time.
On the 31st, my fams took me into DC where I caught a cheap bus up to NYC. We arrived in 3 1/2 hours--I kid you not--and then, there I was! I stayed with a friend in lower Brooklyn for 2 days before peacing out again for Connecticut on the 2nd, with three really truly awesome Wesleyan friends. My time in New York wasn't simply a limbo, period, though, as I spent it chillaxin' with my best friends from Wesleyan who happened to be exactly in the area, exactly during the dates I was there, and also with my close, dear aunt who came in with her boyfriend to spend some time (and a lovely vegan lunch!) with me. New Year's Eve was spent on the promenade in Brooklyn watching fireworks from both left and right cascade over downtown Manhattan.
I'm now staying off-campus in some of my friends' houses and looking forward to one of my other Wesleyan bffs to come back to town tomorrow (for which I cannot wait!). Food Not Bombs, the love of my LIFE!, is happening on Sunday as always, and I really can't wait to be there. I have longed after Middletown FnB since leaving and it's the biggest treat of my life to be here again for that.
And then back to Cambridge :) I'm feeling exceptionally good about that, since I miss all of my friends there, I miss skipping with them, I miss them playing various instruments and speaking many languages. I miss us experimenting with vegan dinner nights (without even such exotic substances as tofu, seitan, tempeh or soy protein). I hope it will snow. I'm looking forward to doing my work (!!!!), which I'm starting here. I want to get to know my professors better. I'm excited about our new Centre for Development Studies and moving into our new building closer to my abode on Sidgwick Street. I want to see Spring come to Cambridge. I want to come back to the UK eventually. I want to hear back from grad schools and see if maybe I should start looking for a job; I'm looking forward to planning out my life and also continuing to learn spontaneity. I want to plan a hitchhiking / cheap-bussing trip down to NC to see some Wes friends who are on an awesome intentional community organic farm there. I want to farm with them. I want to help with the Corpus Christi garden/farm that's just being planned. I'm looking forward to sinking into my duties as the new LGBTQ Rep on the Corpus MCR (Middle Common Room, the postgrad rep committee). I want to be awesome. I'm excited about my life!
And so Happy New Year('s) to all! xoxo :)
Me
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