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So I know it has been awhile since I have written but it has taken some time to readjust to being home. The flight back was as awful as I knew it would be. I did not sleep at all. In fact during my entire way back to this side of the Earth I did not sleep at all. The plane from Auckland to LA was almost 100% full. It really is just such a long and horrible flight, but like most things when you look back on them not as bad and went rather quickly. They had a ton of good movies to watch but after watching five in a row they do become tiresome. When I got to LA the first thing I heard was a fight break out between two people on the flight. It was this crazy man just freaking out on this women and her kids for jumping up in line with their family because they got separated. The funny thing was is that Kendra and I were talking to this women about how awful it was going to be to come back and have to deal with rude people. So we were not in the country for less then 5 mins when we were reintroduced to what we had left behind for 3 months. I did not get to say goodbye to anyone but Kendra because I was on a different flight back than everyone else and because LAX is so huge I had to go like four buildings over to get to my flight. I was really running on empty by the time I got on my flight to Chicago. I was the middle seat of a full airplane it was real great let me tell you. The guy I sat next to was real nice and said he was a drummer from this famous band and started name dropping all these people. I let him go on and on about all these people he knows and all the places hes been. I heard some pretty good stories but who knows if they were real or not. It made the time go by very fast. I feel like my flight to Chicago seemed longer then the one I had just been on. But I guess it always gets like that when you are so close to home. When I landed and finally got to where I could see my family I had tears in my eyes. There was a mixture of happiness of seeing my family that I had been away from for so long and sadness at knowing that my journey was finally over. I came home and saw the rest of my family and gave out all the gifts that I had bought and talked a little of my trip. It was really great to be home and see my dog and my brothers and sisters. My sleeping pattern has been all thrown off. I have been back longer than a week now and it is still messed up. It has been very hard readjusting to life over here. I have come back with just a 'I dont care what other people think about me' out look. I have this feeling insides me of restlessness that I do not believe I will ever be able to shake. Australia has given me so much and I am happy to come back here and share it with those I love. I still find myself going on the Australia Yahoo website instead of my own. I look back now on the beach pictures I have taken and wish I was there rather then looking out my own window and seeing snow that I fear will never stop falling. My grandma asked me if I would ever go back and I can honesty say I do not know but I sure would like to. Maybe in a few years I'll call up Bridget or David or Brad and make a trip back out there and maybe go see the kids that are stayin in the same cabins we stayed in and tell them about our time and be able to see them and remember what they are feeling and going through. It is such a bittersweet feeling to know that my trip is done but I know that I am also so thankful to have had it and now be back with my family. I know I am def not looking forward to real life next semester with all my hard classes I have to take.
well that all for me
Hope everyones Thanksgivings went well!
Cheers
Quote of the day
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us. "
-Joseph Campell