Love from 1,530 miles away (give or take)

Today was the most relaxing day I've had since my arrival in Los Angeles. I spent most of it reading for classes on my balcony and trying to decide if I want to take the hour walk to the nearest Ben and Jerry's in order to use my free birthday ice cream cone coupon (my birthday is on Thursday!).

So, since I don't have much to update you on, I want to use today's post to express to all of you how grateful I am that you're reading my blog. I talked to a lot of you today thanks to Brian calling while he was at Alex's housewarming BBQ (which I wish I could have been there for), and I miss all of you terribly. I'm so glad you're all settling in to your new places and that your summers seem to be coming to a good end. To all my U of M biotches, good luck with classes this week! And to anyone whom I may not know very well who is probably reading my blog out of sheer boredom, I hope I've kept you entertained! I'm sure there will be plenty more to come, hahaha.

I have to say, its been hard to be without my close friends while I'm having these great experiences. I really wish all of you were here to share them with me. But the reason I came out to Los Angeles was to get out of my comfort zone and to find my own way without having a routine to fall back into if things get tough. And I guess letting you in on my adventure is what this blog is for, huh? Haha. But I know as I go along, I'll find people to connect with and grow close to who will make this trip everything that I have hoped it to be and probably much, much more (I feel like I've already been pretty successful with this so far, actually. You know who you are /wink).

I just wanted you all to know how amazing it makes me feel to see that people at home (and, if you go by what The Sounds say and what I've found to be true, this term is very relative) are interested in what's going on with my life. It honestly means so much. Thank you, and so much love to you all.

Home Is Where the Heart Is- The Sounds

 

Finally, in case any of you Minnesotans didn't get the memo, Facebook is blocked in the part of China where Mitch is teaching, so click here to check out his blog. I'm sure he'll have a ton of interesting things going on with him, what with the ultra-foreign country and all.

Until tomorrow! <3