See I told you i am just no good at keeping up with things like this. If ever there was a procrastinator, it is I. I guess this is why I never kept a diary as a teenager. Good thing too, because if anyone had ever found it and read it...oh boy, would I have been in trouble. Some of the things I did scare me when I think about them now. No, we won't even go there.
Thinking about high school (along with Facebook) made me realize that I feel closer to the friends I had in Indonesia than the ones (with exception of a few) I had in Israel, where I spent my eleventh and twelfth grade years. I wonder why that is. My guess is that I just missed Indonesia (and my friends, and not to mention the boyfriend) too much, for at least the first six months or so, to really appreciate where I was at that moment. Being at a new school was never easy for me and neither was making new friends. I was, and still am to some extent, definitely an introvert. Perhaps I kept others at a distance. After all, I hated this place that took me away from everything I had known and loved for the past 4-5 years. I do believe that was the longest I had ever lived in one place.
Why am I going on about this? I don't really know. Maybe it was the reminder of my "first love", having seen someone post about him on FB. Its possible I am just feeling a bit melancholy as I am getting ooooolder and my kids are growing up so fast. Child number four is about to graduate Marine Corps boot camp next week and I am oh so proud of him! This kid was lazy with a capital L in high school. He lived for partying, said he was going to be a bum when he grew up, and pretty much behaved like one for a while there. Now he is about to graduate Marine Corps boot camp?!?! What a transformation that will be. I can't wait to see it!
Even more, child number five (the most difficult one so far) is slated to ship out to USMC boot camp on November 1st of this year. Can't wait to see that transformation. Although, I have to give him credit, he has done a lot of straightening out already.
For tonight I bid you adieu. I will try to be a more faithful writer.
5 comments:
Commenting on my own blog = LAME. At least, making the first comment is. But I wonder why the time is never right. No mater how many times I change my time zone and all that (and yes, I do hit the save button)it still show a way different time than what it is here, now. Oh and btw, it is 12:24 AM right now.
@Carrie:
I haven't quite figured out the time-zone-stamp online either. It never seems quite...right.
It's interesting that you mentioned Indonesia vs. Israel. (I didn't know you lived there, btw.) Indonesia was our last overseas assignment before moving back "home" (New Jersey). But, of all the places we lived, Indonesia is in a category all it's own. FB has been amazing because it's let me reconnect with, literally, everyone I could possibly have wanted to find from JIS. When I remember my time there, and it was only a year and a half, I remember it was so much affection it almost hurts. And, like you (I think), I didn't really appreciate it when I was there, or even when I left. Hell, I was thrilled to be going back to the U.S. TV, fast food, movies, malls, I missed it all. Little did I know that I'd miss everything about Jakarta even more.
I'm just glad we're all back in touch. Finally. Better late than never. :-)
I couldn't agree with you more Steve. To think, Sherri is living the life all over again. (Maybe not in Indonesia, but still...)
Okay. I gave myself a day to think about it and...I have NO idea what you mean about Sherri! LOL! What's she up these days? We hung out in '09 but most of that was a pleasantly alcohol-induced party. hehe
(two months later...)
Steve, Sherri and her family are living in China right now.
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