five days have passed and things are minutely better than they were.
i took saturday off from everything related to school. i just felt like i really needed some time to take a break and not be completely driven. i went to the football game with rachel and actually got sunburnt. i got sunburnt halfway through september, what a joke. they invited the high school to play since neither of our schools have bands. after the football game, rachel and i went tubing because it was so hot. we go down the river which is near her house. let me just tell you that even though it was 85 degrees outside, that water was SO FREEZING. i was honestly afraid i would get hypothermia or something. we spent almost two hours going down the river. it was quite enjoyable because it's just you and the tube and the river. at one point there were some quick rapids and rachel got stuck in one of the trees that was hanging over the river... oh man, it was really funny!
after that, savannah and i went to dr. w's for a fire. now this was probably the most surreal experience i've ever had. he had sent a text message inviting me and friends out to his place for a fire (since he lives in the country). i responded saying there were a few of us interested. his reply - please come out, we won't be home until 9 but there's a key and fresh bread in the kitchen. when S. and i got there it was sprinkling, so we decided it probably wouldn't be the best time to start a fire... so we got the key and went into his house. uh huh. yeah, you read that right. we kind of wandered around the kitchen and living room and then spotted chutes and ladders in the hall closet... so with nothing else to do, we plopped down in his living room and played a game. then i spotted jenga sitting on one of the windowsills, so we played that instead. right around the second game he called me asking if we were there and if we had gotten a fire started. i told him we were waiting for the rain to pass, so we were playing jenga in his living room. his reaction was the greatest... there was a pause, then laughter, then, "you're in.... you're in my HOUSE?!?" he wasn't mad or anything, so it was okay. i was worried for a second. since they were coming home S. and i decided to actually start a fire and we had just made our first s'more when they got home. we ended up spending an hour and a half sitting on his deck just talking... more like complaining, since S. and i have had really crazy weeks recently. it was quite enjoyable to just sit there and relax and not worry about what's due when. and then i got an overwhelming sense of nostalgia and sadness. i'm not sure why, because i know both he and his wife care about us (because otherwise they wouldn't give us open access to their house) but i just felt completely at home, and then i started missing my real home.
sunday was spent playing catch up with all my work. i ended up seeing w again and sitting in his office for 45 minutes. i had intended to just have him sign a form for fishing club and leave, but he wanted to show me a trailer for Waiting For Superman.
this is a movie about the harlem children's zone, and is what w is trying to recreate (in a unique way) here.
yesterday i had three tests in a row. i'm not kidding... three back to back to back. and let's just say MAJOR SUCK-O. it was awful. i hate the pressure that tests put on you to cram stuff into your brain. if we could have a conversation about the material rather than a hard and fast letter grade it would do so much for my mental state. but since those have come and gone (and i think i did pretty well on all of them) i feel a lot better physically, mentally and intelligently. i've got some work to do today but it's nothing that i can't take care of.
so yeah. just a little update. ta-ta for now.
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