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hello friends.
i am home. i guess you can call it home. although most places feel like home these days. but i am back in the familiar. grey skies [i know that you get so sick of the colour of these winter days but they don't have skies like vancouvers in guatemala], crows, warm sweaters and leggings, tea, cooking soup with your boyfriend while showing him how to chop carrots, candles, quiet music. this city is so lovely and i've never appreciated it more then these last three days.
i cannot wait to see all of you. i want to have a small gathering of friends soon after i feel more rested. honestly this city is kind of stressing me out. everything is so robotic and fast and i'm used to the slow laziness of guatemala. also, no one here smiles or says hello to each other. i'm really not used to this. please help me, if you are reading this please try and smile at more people on the street! maybe even say hello! you don't know how amazing it feels to have a connection with everyone you pass with just a little smile. acknowlegement is the key to happiness when walking down the street.
anyway, my flight home was good. i've been having some breathing problems in the past week but that seems to be getting better. i am taking many an herbal remedy.
this morning i woke up and had a hot shower [wow, how amazing that is] then i shaved my legs and put on my chamomile cherry moisturizer i left here and wow. i feel amazing and refreshed and clean.
then i rode my bicycle after fixing up the tires to the grocery store which was a very daunting task. it seemed so big and there were so many people buying so much food. it was kind of scary but i purchased some groceries and then came home and made rosemary herb bread with the rosemary from my families garden. it's cooling now, the house smells of olive oil, rosemary and thyme.
i enjoyed some tomato lentil soup that ryan and i made last night and am now preparing to go over to ryans to watch horror films, cuddle and drink tea most likely.
i'm so glad to be home but i really miss lanquin. i miss all of my friends, especially laryssa. i'm really bad at goodbyes. i get so nervous and don't want to cry and i always try to be so strong but fuck. that goodbye was hard. crying in front of the tienda before the bus left and riding on the bus up to our house where laryssa got off and i just watched her walk up the stairs. the other people on the bus seemed a bit confused about our sad goodbye until i explained that we're best friends from home and we're again being seperated. i love her and i miss her. i wish she was here now, making coffee with our coffee sock and me asking her if she's fed chyeem yet.
but alas, i am home. also, lindsay, i cannot find your phone number anywhere. i have no idea where it is! send it to me. i really want to see you!
<3
xo
love.
i am home. i guess you can call it home. although most places feel like home these days. but i am back in the familiar. grey skies [i know that you get so sick of the colour of these winter days but they don't have skies like vancouvers in guatemala], crows, warm sweaters and leggings, tea, cooking soup with your boyfriend while showing him how to chop carrots, candles, quiet music. this city is so lovely and i've never appreciated it more then these last three days.
i cannot wait to see all of you. i want to have a small gathering of friends soon after i feel more rested. honestly this city is kind of stressing me out. everything is so robotic and fast and i'm used to the slow laziness of guatemala. also, no one here smiles or says hello to each other. i'm really not used to this. please help me, if you are reading this please try and smile at more people on the street! maybe even say hello! you don't know how amazing it feels to have a connection with everyone you pass with just a little smile. acknowlegement is the key to happiness when walking down the street.
anyway, my flight home was good. i've been having some breathing problems in the past week but that seems to be getting better. i am taking many an herbal remedy.
this morning i woke up and had a hot shower [wow, how amazing that is] then i shaved my legs and put on my chamomile cherry moisturizer i left here and wow. i feel amazing and refreshed and clean.
then i rode my bicycle after fixing up the tires to the grocery store which was a very daunting task. it seemed so big and there were so many people buying so much food. it was kind of scary but i purchased some groceries and then came home and made rosemary herb bread with the rosemary from my families garden. it's cooling now, the house smells of olive oil, rosemary and thyme.
i enjoyed some tomato lentil soup that ryan and i made last night and am now preparing to go over to ryans to watch horror films, cuddle and drink tea most likely.
i'm so glad to be home but i really miss lanquin. i miss all of my friends, especially laryssa. i'm really bad at goodbyes. i get so nervous and don't want to cry and i always try to be so strong but fuck. that goodbye was hard. crying in front of the tienda before the bus left and riding on the bus up to our house where laryssa got off and i just watched her walk up the stairs. the other people on the bus seemed a bit confused about our sad goodbye until i explained that we're best friends from home and we're again being seperated. i love her and i miss her. i wish she was here now, making coffee with our coffee sock and me asking her if she's fed chyeem yet.
but alas, i am home. also, lindsay, i cannot find your phone number anywhere. i have no idea where it is! send it to me. i really want to see you!
<3
xo
love.