I'm doing good. I miss talking with you. Your friendship's still really important to me, ya know.
Things are going pretty well on my end. I'm excited to be back home. I felt a lot of homesickness at the start, but now I feel like I'm going to miss this place. But it isn't Europe-- I honestly don't think I'll miss Europe. (Well, maybe Amsterdam, but don't judge me. It gets a lot of crap for its drug culture and sex tourism, but the city itself is beautiful. Go look at John Green's Amsterdam videos and you'll agree with me. Plus the Dutch are incredibly nice to foreigners.)
No, it's the people. I've made a lot of friends here, and I like that feeling, especially since I've been completely myself with them and they haven't judged me or thought that I wasn't cool just because I like World of Warcraft, or know what a chimaera is, or talk like an English major all the time. I've even become close with a few friends here that mirror my relationship with my best friends back home, something that I always thought wouldn't be possible. It's going to hurt seeing everyone go, especially since I'll be one of the last to leave.
We've all "made plans" to meet up again at some point, probably early next year, but you know how those things tend to pan out. Distance really sucks--the theme of my life.
My roommates were all gone so I recorded a YouTube audience-directed video on iMovie. How funny's that? Shaun reminded me that I haven't made a vlog-type video in pretty much two years, so I thought it would be funny to make a "Two Years of No Videos Anniversary" video. Felt weird to listen to myself speak again. I used "like" too much, like a total '90's girl (har, har). I thought about repeating some of the lines from my travel journal, but maybe I'll wait until I get back home to make that video. The days are so drastically different: one day is spent working out, grocery shopping, and watching Dexter, and the other is spent watching a girl break her nose/upper jaw on the sidewalk while walking to a karaoke bar with a caravan of drunk people (yeah, that really happened). I'll upload it, but it's going to take a while. I need to find time to edit it, and free time is preciously spent (sometimes) preparing for finals, but mostly playing Luxor Quest on my phone.
But enough about me, let me know how you're doing. Honestly. I still care about all of you a lot, and still consider you some of my best friends.
Take care.
