So we're at the half way point in this internship. I've been here for 8 weeks, which means I only have 8 more weeks left. As much as that makes me happy and everything, it also kind of makes me sad. I'm just beginning to feel comfortable here. That doesn't necessarily mean that I could see myself here long term... I don't think being here long term is for me.
Getting back to the fact leaving makes me happy, I am really really REALLY excited to go home. I get to see all my friends and family again. I get to eat American food ALL the time, and I don't have to eat rice 3 times a day =) I have been craving pancakes and diner food so badly the last couple weeks. When it comes to food, that's just about all I think about...pancakes and going to a New York style Diner. The pancakes I can understand...I have those somewhat regularly...but the diner, i'm not so sure about. I don't really eat a diner all that often.
Okay enough about food...it's making me hungry, and I just finished breakfast, which was noodles and milk, not mixed, if you were interested. But yesterday, or tonight, depending on when you read this, was my birthday. As the title says...it's time to say “so long teenage years...and hello to the road to getting old.” But now that i'm 20, which is weird to say, I don't really feel all that different. I mean yesterday didn't feel like a “special day” like it has previously. To me it was just another day. With that said, when I first arrived, Angela had told me what the Filipino people do on ones birthday, which scared me at the time. She said that Filipino people wake up the birthday person at like 5:00 in the morning to sing to them, and then make the birthday person make everyone breakfast and coffee and such. When I had heard this I was very scared, because I did NOT want that happening to me. So when they asked me when my birthday was, I was skeptical to them. I eventually did tell them, and thankfully, they didn't do that to me. But we didn't have power again the night before so we all slept in the living room because it's a lot cooler out there then in the rooms. Only problem is that the tile floor isn't all that comfortable, so I didn't really sleep all that well. Around 6:15 I got up and went into my room and slept for another hour or so, which I was very thankful for.
This is totally random, but while I've been here, I have been very very VERY thankful for music. On my last missions trip I didn't have any music with me, but fortunately my friends let me borrow their ipods, which helped a lot! I LOVE music, and it helps me if i'm not in a good mood, or just bummed about stuff. There have been about 2-3 songs that have been particularly helpful. Not Alone by Red, Hymn For the Missing by Red, and Best Is Yet To Come also by Red. There are a lot of songs that I've listened to that have brought me peace while i've been here, but these three have been the most helpful to me.
I forgot to mention this in last week's update, but we went to a Taoist temple for an “outing.” Once a week or so, we didn't go on one this week, we all go on an outing somewhere. It could be to the movies, it could be to the beach, or it could be an educational outing. I personally loved the Taoist temple, but everyone thought it was boring. But I like that kind of stuff. It was just interesting to see everything, and just to experience such quiet even though there were a lot of people there. Because everyone was bored out of their mind, we only stayed about an hour and a half, and ended up going to Family Park, which is a huge park that has fields, and a pool, and it even has it's own Zoo, a small zoo, but a zoo nonetheless. We went there to eat lunch, and so that the kids could run around and play. We spent more time there, then we did at the Taoist temple, and the Taoist temple was supposed to be our “outing” for the week.
Well that's all I have for now. Talk to you next week!!
With the wind,
Mark
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