Update: Sunday 7 Oct

I'm sorry! I swear I will get around to posting about Disney, I just have other things on my mind at the moment, I want to post about that before I forget.

I'm having reminiscent moments lately.  When I walk outside into the damp cold autumn weather, it really makes me miss home. Last year I missed autumn weather, this year I miss it again. I miss the crispness of the air when it's just starting to get cold, and that whole I-can-see-my-breath thing.  Of course I'll definitely be able to see my breath here too when it gets colder, but since it's so humid that probably won't be until it gets later into the winter.  The Netherlands is a beautiful place, and I love it here, but it's so different from home. Two autumns ago when I was just starting at Boise State, I remember how beautiful I thought the campus looked with all the trees changing, and the occasional rain, and red and yellow leaves all over the ground. It's weird, I never realized back then that it would be such a unique autumn for me, because I'm not going back to Boise State.

I also miss that southern France autumn. It was so beautiful. I miss piles of wet yellow leaves all over the ground and walking an hour to school in the fog.  Sometimes when I'm walking through the streets in a random city (for example, Friday I went to Gouda) I suddenly wish I was in a tiny mountain village in France, getting ready to go to a little locally-owned restaurant for some authentic Pyrénées-region soup. That soup was amazing.  I have a CD by Lady Antebellum, one of my favorite bands, that my friend gave to me just after I got to France last year. So when I hear the songs from that CD, I think of standing at a bus stop in the  cold with Lady A singing in my ears, with a nice warm scarf and the jacket that my mommy brought me from home when she came to visit.

I get to miss Thanksgiving again this year. Of course, I could make my own "Thanksgiving feast" but it's nowhere near the same. I guess I don't mind too much. One girl in my class, Nora, is German but lived in the US for one year during high school. She says she loves Thanksgiving, and she had this idea to have our own Thanksgiving party. Except she's vegetarian. And she just loves stuffing. Vegetarian stuffing? Interesting. I don't know about that. No, the part that I really do mind is that going home for Christmas would cost way too much. Hopefully I can find someone willing to take me in for Christmas, being alone would just be too sad. My roommates are going home. For New Year Jenn and I are going to the UK to meet up with some strangers, so I have that holiday covered, hopefully I figure something out for Christmas. It'll be okay.