Unghhhh....

This week I am homesick. I am stressed out. I don't want to talk to anyone. And it still hurts a little every time I walk. It hurts because I fell out of a bus and sprained my ankle last Thursday. I don't want to talk to anyone, because the frequent mis-communications are starting to really bug me. I am stressed out due to my lack of physical mobility with the sprained ankle. I am homesick due to moving to the other side of the globe for two years.

That being said, I am thankful for the friends I do have here. I am thankful for the cheap (and legal) copy of Sherlock Holmes I have been watching. I am thankful for proper tea, audiobooks, and the guitar that I am learning to play.

I am thankful I can talk on skype to my family and friends at home (skype me at thatjuliegirl). I am thankful for the post card that my O. U. Improv!er Scott sent me in the mail. I am thankful for all the encouraging emails my support team has been sending me.

Also (and I never thought I would be saying this), I am thankful for McDonalds. I love going there, ordering an iced tea, and sitting on the third floor in a window seat. It has become the place I go to be American. Even though everyone around my is from HK, and even though I'm the only American in the place, it feels like a perfectly fine place to just sit and be American. I never go to McD's at home (or very rarely did), but it still identifies as American. That is the important part.

... Working on Sun-Tues, but have Wednesday and Thursday off. I hope to post a less stressed update then.

Please pray for me. My patience is wearing thinner and thinner as I get more stressed and homesick.