correspondence

It was equally lovely to hear from you! Apparently you're having some rather chilly weather over there, almost as cold as it is here (it snowed here a week ago). I'm glad you enjoyed the email; I enjoy writing, it gives me great satisfaction. However I'm struggling with my grammar and punctuation, commas are still a mystery to me. I also tend to go overboard when it comes to description, "carried away" is the best way to put. I could easily just say the hills were green and there were sheep (so many sheep!). Perhaps with age and experience I will learn to tone down my exuberance for metaphor, simile, analogy and whatever else I use. Give me your favorite memory from the past two weeks (it's so much more fun than just asking "How are you" which ellicits a simple one-word answer, hardly descriptive). What really stands out? Perhaps you don't have time, I understand - my life is quite hectic back at school.

I nearly pissed my pants with joy when I saw the books I had to read for my classes. Three of my classes relate in some way to Victorian England (my concentration in history) and the fourth is a history seminar. Yipee! I met my potential thesis reader and ran some ideas by her and she liked them. I won't lie, I squealed in the privacy of my own room I was that happy. I'm vigorously on the magazine I write for, it's hard but rewarding work.

Transitioning/adjusting is going alright. I have my moments of "Where the hell am I and what am I doing?", it takes a little patience to adjust my psyche. The most heart-breaking part of this experience is realizing how quickly I'm forgetting what I learned in Kenya. Scripps is a very different life style, full of clothes, books, booze and everything in between. Priorities are different and its difficult to adjust to that. I try my best to look at this as a separate foreign culture which requires the same understanding and open-mindedness I had in Kenya. Taking things day by day is important, it's easy to get hysterical about very minor things...and major things like post-college plans.