Musing

So on June 3rd I reached my "3 months left" mark. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think that I have passed the phase of adjustment where I hated everything and now I am totally enjoying being here. I have so much left to learn about Sri Lanka and I love the students. They are so wonderful. I love teaching and I dont' think that I am ready to become just a student yet. I know that I am going to lose it when I have to say good bye to the students at the end of July. That is when our second term ends.

I can hear the ice cream guy playing his little "come-get-some-icecream" song as he drives by.

There are some things that I am really going to miss here.

• The teachers and students at Beacon Hill Academy
• The people that I have been able to get to know from church
• Matt, Reb and the boys - not the cats!
• Lemon Puffs and all the other wonderful cookies that you can get here.
• Going to town - it's so much more fun than shopping at home!
• The beautiful surroundings - Sri Lanka is a beautiful country - the flowers, shrubs and trees.
• The mountain outside the teacher's room window - If you are on the computer you get to look at it.
• The fruit - oh my word the fruit. I was at Pastor Ramesh's house for dinner last night and they had the largest papaya that I had ever seen. It was the size of a medium sized watermelon! Did you know that there are more than one kind of banana? It's crazy going to the market here cause you can't just ask for a banana...they just look at you like "sure but what kind".
• The simplicity of life
• Eating with my hands - can't see anyone being to thrilled with me eating like that.
• My orange room
• Seeing the amazing array of colorful saris everyday.

I'm sure that there are so many more things that I am going to miss that I won't realize until I am home. Maybe some time I will make a list of the things that I won't miss.