T-minus 6 Days
Wow, it is hard to believe I only have 6 days left in Seattle! I have living in this city for the last 12 years of my life and it is going to be hard to leave it. There are so many ways in which the two of us are tied together, so much of me is tied to what this city is. Fortunately I am going to a place that shares many similarities with Seattle but it won’t be the same. I will miss the rainy days and the cold, crisp winter nights. Our neighbor once asked why my brother couldn’t come out and play on a rainy day since it was good weather for flowers. If that is the case then I must be a flower cause I love the rain. Don’t get me wrong, even I will start feeling a little depressed after a month or so of drizzle, but there is just something so beautiful and perfect about rain. I love to sit near an open window when it is raining and feel the cool moist air flowing past me. When we get a good summer rain after a long dry spell I will run outside and just stand in the falling water, feeling it bounce off my skin and breath deep the lingering smell of the wet pavement.
It will be a strange adjustment to a city and a region that gets much hotter and is more about tans and tank tops than gortex and flannel. This will also be the first time that I will be the “outsider” when it comes to being somewhere. I am used to being the one who shows people around and talks about all the fun things to do in Seattle. Now I will have a whole city to explore on my own. I know that there will be a good community built in at Mount Hermon but I do hope that I find a good group of friends to settle in with. I think that will be a good part of why I get involved with a church down there. Maybe I can find ways to use my computer/sound tech/camera skills to help some place. Those skills are becoming more and more common however and I am basically moving to the computer capitol of the western hemisphere. Well I have a full week of packing and good byes ahead of me so I’m sure it is going to be an emotional roller coaster (though probably not as fun as the old wooden coasters in SC)!
