Adjusting

The adjustment was much more difficult than I was expecting, and continues to be a challenge, in part culture, in part heat, in part wanting to be with Jacey and my Family, especially my grandfather and grandmother, in part feeling suffocated by living under someone else's roof, and their albeit kind attention, their attention!
My parents have afforded me a lot of independence my entire life, they raised us with deliberate freedom to make decisions and taught us to take care of ourselves and others well enough that they didn't feel they needed to supervise me anymore, once I hit about 18, despite being able to always go to my parents, for anything and everything, its quite a whole different experience to be 'babied' in a way, a way I haven't had since I was a baby (despite being spoiled ripe). But everything is learning!
The heat is hot!
It has been around plus 35 everyday and goes down to about plus 30 at night for you know some relief from the heat!
I have had doubles, and some other Trinidadian food, last night I even helped cook some but that will come later.
I am doing really well with the spice because, people see how white I am and don't put any, and their not spicy, is just a little bit spicy for me!
The other day in meeting someone asked me if I had a sun burn because my cheeks were rosey. I unfortunately have not spent much time in the sun as of yet but will be as soon as possible! so I had the luxury of explaining that I was not sun burnt I was just white, and that was my natural skin tone! it was halarious!!
The water in Trinidad is fine to drink, and I'm slowly getting better at not knowing what were doing day to day and not being upset about it!
All in all I think this is good!
The other Canadian on this trip name is Miriam,
we are getting along very well considering we are very different in terms of interests and so forth, we come from the same Church body in Canada, although her involvement in the church far exceeds my own, because my interest in faith, is social justice, and really social justice only. And Miriam could probably explain the majority of UCC policies at the congregational level.
She is 18 and just graduated, we won't be working together as of Nov 7th, but will be living together for all or the majority of the next 6 months.

6 months still feels so long when I say it, it hurts a little on the inside, but we've been having a good amount of fun admist bouts of homesickness. This is the first day where I havne't thought, 5 times an hour, about how to sneak to the airport and come home! Today i thought of it twice the whole day :)
And tomorrow maybe once, and know I realised today that we only are here for 5 months and two weeks, and 3 daysish...
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