Please forgive me for my absence, friends. Christmas is approaching, and in order to suppress the longing for my loved ones back in Sweden I make sure to keep myself busy; there’s the holiday shopping, the gift wrapping, the christmas cards making, the christmas cocktail parties, the farewell parties, the recovering from the farewell parties…
I have also started to read a new book, Savannah; the first one in the “Savannah quartet”, written by Eugenia Price. It’s a historic novel about a rootless, young man that begins his new life in the 1700′s Savannah, Georgia. It’s exiting to read about Broughton Street and Bay Street, Fort Pulaski and other places that I’ve actually been to, and to get the picture of what it looked like in the very birth of the city.
It’s also wonderful to finally feel like I have time to be completely absorbed in a book that is not Motor Control and Learning: Concepts and Applications or Communication Mosaics: An Introduction to the Field of Communication…
Today I was walking over to the post office, and on the way I saw a couple of squirrels chasing each other up and down a tree. Such love birds… There is an incredible amount of squirrels around here.
Sometimes when I’m running in the totally squirrel-invaded woods behind campus I picture myself in a comic book, with all these squirrels surrounding me in the trees and on the ground, running beside me, quickly taking a shortcut through my legs, dingling in the spanish moss above my head, peeking out from behind every tree stem intensively chewing on nuts that they hold between their tiny paws.
Speaking about spanish moss. Here you go, it’s the white-ish, weird thing that hangs from the branches of the trees. Our campus is actually rather pretty, when I’m thinking of it. Also, it is December but sunny and about 27 degrees. Isn’t that neat?
Now, however, is bed time. Tomorrow I’m going to my primary host family to spend the weekend with them, and with relatives and friends of theirs. It’s going to be nice and relaxing, I hope.
And then, on Monday, I will be a very, very happy Maja. Why? My best friend from Sweden arrives at Savannah airport! Joy to the world!
Night ♥
