alone
It is always weird for me when Peter and I are apart. We spend so much time together that doing even simple things (like cooking) alone, feel very strange. I know that it is good for us to be alone for a little while, because after long enough you really can forget what it is like. He is my best friend.
I also feel very alone in this house. In MY house. The subleasers (who are subleasing Peter and Nathan's rooms) are very shy and private and sometimes act like I don't even live here. It is weird. I spend most of my time in my room doing work, and leave almost every evening to go be with friends. I do really love my cat and chickens, though. They are all really awesome.
Peter is in S. Korea now. He left North Carolina yesterday and got to Seoul today. In a few days he leaves for Phuket, Thailand, where he is volunteering with habitat for humanity to help out families that live in poorly build, falling apart, or unfinished houses (some of them are missing walls and huge pieces of the ceiling). I am very proud of him.
It is hard that the time difference is so severe (it is almost 2 am there now), and I do hate that I get worried about him and can't hear from him but through email and the occasional skype chat. (He doesn't speak any Korean or Thai).
I am very excited about going to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and Tucson this weekend (from the 1st to the 9th), for my Udall scholarship orientation weekend (tucson) and the extension (grand canyon and sedona) that a few of the other scholars and I arranged. I've never been to any of these places before AND the Udall foundation payed for my plane ticket (boo-yah). Camping out for a little while is just what I need. Though it will be hard that I can't talk to Peter at all while I am camping out and may be strange to share our small 2 person tent with a stranger.
I didn't sleep well last night because I couldn't help but feel so strangely that Peter would be on a plane the whole time I was asleep. It was the first night in as long as I can remember that we didn't speak to eachother.
Peter will be back from Phuket on the 15th and back home to me on the 18th. Mini-classes start on the 20th.
This summer went by tooooo fast.
I did finish my watercolor childrens activity book about lemurs/lemur reserves, finally. It is very cute and I hope to have it printed at some point.
