Countdown!

May is already in full swing over here. I'm now starting to prepare for my leaving this place for good. I've sold my car (which was a feat unto itself) and even found a home for a kitten I had taken off the streets. There are three weeks until classes are finished and then I have about a month to collect, organize and send home the rest of my things. In the meantime, my sister will be coming to visit me for a bit, her first since I first got here. Things are winding down and wrapping up overall and I'm excited at the prospect of leaving. Game plan A is to go home and reacclimate to "the West" for a bit. I don't know how long that "bit" will be, but I'm trying to not stress over it too much. I need to get my life in order and I don't know how I'm going to go about doing that. I couldn't tell you where I'm going to be in a year from now, let alone ten. I don't have any solid short-term or long-term goals and it scares me shitless, excuse my French. All I know is that I'll be going back home and will reassess where I'm going and what I want out of life.

As for my everyday life here, it's been alright. Since I last wrote, I spent another vacation in Sinai and had a great time. (Did I ever mention that I feel like I live from vacation to vacation here? Well, it still holds true.) The week felt like a short dream and then I had to 'wake up' to real life once more, meaning returning here. In any case, I have less than two months left now and I think the weeks will move quickly. The weather is turning hot again, bringing back miserable flashbacks of energy-draining heat waves of yore. It's no fun to go out anymore - it's running from airconditioned home to airconditioned car to airconditioned destination. It sucks, but it'll be fun to see how my sister, newbie as she is, will deal with it. I am still amazed from time to time at our ability to adapt to various extreme environments. I shudder at the thought of going back home to temperatures below zero. I am terrified, frankly.

In any case, this is the point I'm at. At another crossroads yet again. Where to next, only God knows. Until next time...