Day 4: World Coloring-In Day

Day 4

Today, I have to color in a map of the world.

Not a big deal, but I don’t have crayons or colored pencils or really anything besides black pen.

Good thing I’m heading to Mike’s house later. He’s probably got crayons.

Classes drag on. I laugh with Ariel in the House class, and that’s pretty much the highlight of it all.

Then I head to Mike’s house. Before I can ask him about crayons, we head out with his youth group to play games with old ladies.

I learn that the ladies we’re going to meet have Alzheimer’s. Interesting.

We play Hangman with them. It’s fun.

There’s one woman who calls out “A-E-I-O-U!” for every letter. I like her.

It’s interesting that even though these ladies sometimes forget the rules of Hangman mid-game, they’re able to guess the words every time.

It makes me a little less scared if I ever get Alzheimer’s.

We return to Mike’s house. Mike finally gets me those crayons, and I color in the map.

Green is where I’ve been. USA and France.

Yellow is where I want to go. Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, India, Japan, Australia, England, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France again. I want to go back to France.

Red is where I am perfectly happy never setting foot in my life. That’s the rest of the world.

It’s kind of sad that red is most of the world. But that’s not places I never want to go to—I just won’t be crushed if I don’t go there.

Then Mike takes me back to my dorm. What we do then is private.

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My thoughts today:

eh. I still want to go to those places. 

so yeah. that's it. I barely even remember this day.


Hey, Mike, I know you're reading this. Comment. Please.
Steph, you too.