64. I'm Home!

Home is great. It's good to be with family. To see my parents, brother, sister, grandparents, aunt and uncle, cousins.

The next day I had to go to the DMV and was suddenly struggling with being angry and resentful at the man who had stolen my purse...because there was a really long wait at the DMV. But I got my license and yay that was taken care of.

The day after that was the 4th of July. What a great day to return to America! We celebrated with all the traditional American stuff. So I was really happy to be home for that. And then the next day, we all went to the Royals game because they were playing the A's. So I mean hot dogs, baseball, singing the national anthem, family, fireworks...what more could I ask for? I don't think anything else could have said "Welcome back to America!" as much as those things did :)

I know it'll take a long time to process South Africa. To process home. To process the things I saw and learned. But I am glad I had the trip. I miss South Africa a little bit already. I'm slowly adjusting back to the time/season here in Kansas. And I start a new job on Monday July 8th after my training session at the gym. So back to real life, hitting the ground running!