Quotes


Yesterday I was enjoying the sunshine pouring through my window.  Well, it doesn’t pour through my window since it faces east, but I enjoyed the sunshine pouring onto the building across from mine.  All of the sudden it starts to rain, which is typical, but then it started to hail!  We definitely get hail in Indiana, so it wasn’t something new for me, but we don’t get hail so often that it isn’t notable when it does come.  I tried to take a picture of it, but I don’t think it captured the true essence of the experience.

A while later I left for class and as I waited for it to start I glanced out of the window.  Nothing out of the ordinary.  I turned away, but when I looked back, there was a rainbow!  It was amazing, and faded after about five minutes, but it still brightened my day.

The humorous part was a conversation afterwards with my flatmate:

Me:  Did you see the hail today?

Andrie:  Hail? No!

Me:  What about the rainbow?

Andrie:  There was a rainbow?

Me: Yep!

Andrie:  Where was I today?

The reality is that I am leaving in less than two months!  My pre-departure paper work is into Rotary, my visa has been granted by the UK, and I should shortly find out who my host counselor is.  I’ll give my presentation to the Attica-Williamsport Rotary Club on September 3rd (I’m excited for it, although I haven’t started yet). 

Anyway, the real purpose of this post is to share a quote from yesterday that made the reality set in a little deeper.  Plus a little humor is in order!

Katie (my sister):  Did they spell ‘authourised’ wrong on your visa?

Me:  No, they just spelled it British.

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