Good morning!

Today's a sleepy day filled with the increasing dread of finals and leaving. The bittersweet anxiety/excitement of going home is becoming unbearable. At this point all I want to do is go home. But at the same time, I never want to leave. It's a really interesting oxymoron. I have to get through the next few days of papers and exams, then the farewell dinner. Friday I have the day free and hopefully Mami and I can do something fun together in the morning. I have to do homework at lunch today, write a paper tonight, prepare for my final oral exam tomorrow morning, write another paper tomorrow night, and then prepare for my final exam Thursday afternoon. Thursday evening is our farewell dinner. Friday Tiffany has exams in the morning, but the rest of the day will be free. Friday night our host sister is having a dinner party for a bunch of people from church (they've been working on putting together a summer camp or something since I've been here). Then, I'm off early Saturday morning. I'll have to figure out how I'm going to pack everything. I really didn't think I'd bought that much, but now I realize I got more than I thought I did. Maybe that's why I'm almost out of cash.....nah, can't be.

I find it interesting that as any large event with large amounts of people comes to an end, everyone gets grumpy and starts fighting and complaining more than ever. It's happened several times (graduating from high school for example) and I have yet to be amused by it. It seems that people just start pushing everyone and everything away to prevent getting hurt when they leave. Just a theory, maybe I'll explore it more as I get more into my psychology stuff.

Oh, last night we had cornbread for dinner again. This time it was actually made with corn meal and tasted so good. She made one with sugar and one without. It was like Grandma Tanis meets Grandma Perry. It's funny that I'm satisfied with a piece or two of cornbread and a cup of hot chocolate for dinner. We'll see how long it takes me to get back to my nothing lunches and gargantuous dinners again.

That's about it for now. Nothing new is really happening since we're winding down. Love you, miss you, mean it!