I just caught up on email the other day and wrote the Steve and Trina in Addis, Denise in Dilla, and Bev in Addis. I got such nice notes from them, it was weird to think I hadn't written any of them, I don't think, since I left.

Hearing from them makes me feel Ethiopia. Denise's news from Dilla, the ho-hum normal life news from Addis that I enjoyed so much reminds me that this wasn't a "trip" or a "visit," that I really lived there and alot of wild things became normal. Working the last few nights makes me feel San Jose, Good Sam, life before Ethiopia. And I realized the two haven't really fused, so far I have just turned off Ethiopia to deal with life here. Today I realized once that fusion happens, I will be much more grown up than before all of this happened.

I'm checking out a chance to housesit, I have to think through my questions. Living at home is hard, but so is the fact that I do not have a community here. Where do I find that?