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[happifacek]

i want to write something really long to let everyone know how much i think of them, and what i'm doing when i think of them, and what i've been feeling and where i've been living, but i'm starting to get worried that the ice cream in my bag is going to melt before i can take it up the huge hill where i've been for a week- tonight may or may not be

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[shugarsin]

I'm really glad I read that whole thing, because I've been reading a lot of medical journals on malaria (and I actually got scared for a minute when you said you were working outside so much but then I realized that New Zealand is basically perfect so I didn't have to worry) and it would have been really easy and typical of me to just be kind of like, ah he wrote too much, I'll skim it. But I didn't because hearing everything about you is incredible and I'm so, so excited and proud and jealous and amazed by what you're doing. Evan had said you were having a hard time at first, and maybe you still are?, but it definately sounds like you're getting better. I'm glad you got Peter Pan because I wasn't sure that it would work :-). So things here have been kind of rough for me. You would tell me I'm taking everything too seriously, and I probably really am, but I don't know how not to at where I am right now. I'm considering transferring, but I'm trying for that not to be the solution because running away never really solves anything and I think this is more about me than anything else. I'm buying my plane tickets to visit my people in England next week(!) and I'm going away next year and I'm studying a lot and trying to lighten up about what goes on here but, well, it's hard. I went home and then my family came here last week and it was really really great to see everyone-- you'll see how crazy it is to see how much everyone seems older when you come home, and it'll be more for you, and you'll probably seem older too, and it'll be really good. So I send you bunches of love and luck and everything good. Keep smiling.