America

dear friends and family,

I decided I won't spam you with India/life updates, so I'm making this so if you feel inclined to see where my travels have taken me, it's all right here for the taking! First let me all say that I love you guys, thanks for taking time out of your day to see about me. Right now it's 3 in the morning and I leave in T minus 11 days. I find my life is currently a jumble of travel size shampoo, travel documents, and extra socks. Hopefully it will all make its way into the one suitcase and backpack I plan on bringing. Yikes. I'm working on minimizing my life... so if anyone knows anyone who needs lots of size 8 shoes or small/medium clothes, please get in touch with me or my momma.

Anyways... life lately... I've been having an amazing winter break. I've been spending a lot of it up in Chicago, i've got something up there that i just can't seem to stay away from. I rode home from there today, on a venture that took nearly 12 hours. Frozen trains and various delays. It wasn't all bad though, I got a lot of reading done, and spent most of my delay talking to this Chinese guy who moved to America a year ago and works in a restaurant in Springfield. I liked that he used "beautiful" to describe everything he liked. He wanted help pronouncing words in English, and found the word ear very hilarious. On the way home I listened to a very special tape and imagined all the places I could have traveled to in the amount of time it took me to get home. Thanks for picking me up mom, you're the best.

Maybe the next post you read, I'll be on the other side of the planet, or just somewhere in Illinois. We'll see.

Sarah