I SUCK at keeping up with a blog. Also, make sure that you check out the post right before this one. I started it on my last day in St. Kitts, and it had been sitting in my drafts box ever since.
Hey. I never said that I was going to be good at this. That draft I started and just uploaded was 6 months ago!
6 months...wow. It honestly doesn't feel like I left the island that long ago. It feels like it was just yesterday. I remember how badly I wanted to get off that island. That plane ride home was seriously one of the best days of my life. Forget the fact that the St. Kitts airport staff almost didn't let me take home my cat, Reggae (I seriously hate those people), and that when I got to San Juan I found out that I had to buy a new carrying case for him because they only allow soft cases on Air Tran (and, very conveniently, they sold them at a store around the corner for 80 bucks), seriously, forget all that. I was going back to the STATES! I had a one-way ticket home! I was about to feel like an American citizen again!
It was everything that I had hoped for and more. It still is. I would never want to go back to living on an island again. In fact, for the first 3 or 4 months I insisted that I did not miss one thing about that island, and I meant it when I said it. Now thinking about that time and looking back at pictures...I do feel a little sad, I feel myself wishing just a little bit that I could go back there and be with all my friends (for like, a week. TOPS. Ha ha). Just to live it up again. When will there ever be days like that again in my life? Where I could wake up to the sound of the ocean everyday, meet my friends at the beach bar down the street, go horseback riding in the ocean (never mind the hardware in my arm). The thing I miss the most are all the great friends I made there, and seeing them every day. We all still keep in touch and I think that we always will. And for the time being I do have the company of a few St. Kitts folk here in my new (temporary) residence in Colorado.
And now I find myself wishing I were back in Michigan! After all that talk about how I was SO excited to go to Colorado and I may never want to leave. Ok yes it's beautiful and all, but it's not Michigan. It's not home. I'm beginning to realize that I am a true Michigander and it's yet to be seen if I could be happy anywhere else. I love Michigan. I'm sure that my family and loved ones have a lot to do with that too. But Michigan is beautiful and it has a lot to offer. I love it. That's all.
Peace and blessings to all!
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