One Week

I've been back home for a whole week today.

I feel like it was so much longer ago. I miss Orlando so much. I especially miss my friends. They're terrific. I have had some pretty awesome times up here, though. With people that I've known for a while and people I've just met. I can feel their love and warmth and it just makes my soul smile. I love being around these people.

It's always interesting when you move somewhere and people don't know everything about you anymore. It's no longer common knowledge that I play the ukulele. Not only do I play it, but I even made mine. This is the time that most people don't know even the simplest things about me. It's a little refreshing, but sometimes I want that good friend that knows not just what I like, but even what I'm thinking at times. Those moments when I'll be painting and just talking and she'd let me talk or choose to think to myself and I'd do the same for her.

I'm always surprised when people are happy to see me. Or when they want me to sit next to them. Especially when it's a person I don't know very well. I always wonder what they know about me or why they would want someone like me to be with them. I'm incredibly grateful for it, though. No matter how often it surprises me.

I wish I could express how much I love people. Especially good people. So. If you're human, I want you to know that I love you. And if you're the Doctor - I think you're pretty great, too. Simple as that.

Everything hasn't been perfect here, true. My sculpture broke, I lost a check and an incredibly important letter that one of my friends wrote me, I spent 2 1/2 hours at the doctor's office only to find out that I need to go back, I was ignored by my parents most of the time, and there are so many more bugs than usual that I'm about to go completely mad. But that's part of life. I'll move on.

I met this Japanese girl today that couldn't speak very much English. I want to learn Japanese so intensely right now. I've never been so ashamed of how helpless I was with the language. I've loved the  Japanese culture and language for so long, you would think I would've found some way of taking a class or something, right?

Anyway. To do list: Learn Japanese.