the palm trees are so green!

Yesterday was the last friday of 2008! I suppose that that would go to say that today is the last Saturday, as well.
Terri gets mad at me when I say obvious things.

Yesterday was the first day I left the island since I've been here. We haven't really been doing that much this year. Either we are tired and just want to sit and bake in the sun, or we are just waiting until Glen gets here, and then start doing everything. He's in for a surprise. Though, really, it's the same with his family. When I was with them in Galveston, we had a bedtime and a time to get up and a schedule for the day. I don't think it's any less planned out here, there just isn't the bed time or the wake up time. At least directly. It's hard to find somewhere you can sit and read after my parents go to bed because: Kristin in the the bedroom talking to Jeremy, my grandma is sleeping on the couch, and if you put the light on on the porch, it wakes me parents up.
And when they get up, you can hear them banging pots and whatever else there is to bang in the kitchen.

At twelve o'clock and six o'clock the catholic church down the street rings its bells and plays Christmas carols. It's nice that Christmas hasn't died here yet. We went to the Edison House in Fort Myers last night (that is why we left the island) and it was lit up, and there were Christmas lights on all the palm trees, and there were Christmas trees everywhere...so it still feels like Christmas, now two days later.

Did everyone (Terri) have a good Christmas? The highlight of my Christmas, was honestly, waking up at 7 to go running with my cousin, Jay. It was the first time I had ever talked to him, where it was just him and I, and I find it sad that it took me 20 years to develop an interest in my relatives. But it was good to talk to him and start to get to know the people who make up my family, though I only see them every other year. I think it's cool that my mom has kept up with her cousins. I don't see myself really doing the same, and my dad hasn't either.
I mean, he'll talk to them, but I haven't seen his cousins or their children in so many years.

and now, I am going to go and research Darfurian agriculture techniques and plant life.