So, I’m over jet lag, finally. I helped out at the Academy for about a week so that I could learn some names and become familiar to the students before I start in January. It was great! I talked to the science teacher and he said that I could teach some classes for him sometime. I also got recruited to be the assistant gymnastics coach. I’m super excited about that because I kind of missed being in gymnastics.
My eating habits suffered while I was at the academy though. I started drinking coffee every morning with the head dean and would randomly make a ramen noodles and eat them along with dorm store candy and snacks. I gave in a few times to non-vegan items as well but they were usually things like, a carmel apple pop, and vanilla latte powder rather than things like macaroni and cheese or alfredo sauce… I believe that all of these poor dietary choices have contributed to the adverse health I am now experiencing. Blechgh… I feel awful. I basically have this nagging cough that makes me sound like a dragon that is unable to blow fire but continually attempts at to do so. My sinuses are draining too. Anyway, I think it will be gone very soon because I have places to go.
The over all experience so far from being back has been interesting. Yap feels like this distant memory and all that happened there was just a blip in time. I felt guilty for leaving for a while but realized that it was not something that God was causing me to feel and after asking him to help me get rid of it I did gradually feel much better. I talked to a lot of people about what happened there and it was therapy in itself to talk so much about it.
Over the next month I will be jumping around, visiting family and friends until I start at WA. I’m essentially living out of my suitcase and it’s very uncomfortable because I don’t have a routine. I feel kind of pointless without that routine and am very much looking forward to starting in January. There is hardly any motivation to start anything that I need to do because I won’t be able to finish it right now. I spend a lot of time aimlessly wandering between my kitchen and my computer… that is not a good habit to start.
I will stop complaining now. :)
So, I noticed something interesting when I was visiting WA. About a half of the girls seem to be pre-occupied with sex (and or things related to it) and or putting other classmates down so they feel better about themselves. They are indeed like walking hormones and they don’t know how to handle themselves. I didn’t notice either of these things when I was in Yap. (I did a little but it’s nothing compared to this) I’m wondering if this is just an effect of the American culture or is this normal? I don’t remember it being that bad when I was in high-school, but then again, I was very naïve. A few of the girls started opening up to me and I have a good feeling about next semester. It’s like I’m the big sister of 40 girls. They all think I’m awesome because I’m older than them but not too old, haha.
When I reference people from now on I don’t think I’ll use their names anymore and I won’t be posting pictures of them when referring to them. I think it’s safer that way. There is this one girl that has been telling me a lot but I think she’s making about half of it up. I’m thinking that maybe she believes that in order for people to care about her life it needs to seem like it’s really messed up. I’m hoping she overcomes this.
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