As my days here in Hawaii become fewer and fewer, I find myself getting teary about the things I've come to take for granted, but will no longer have in a couple of weeks.
This past weekend, it was while sitting with Sam in the church he attends: I looked around at the diversity of people, the various shades of skin, the varying formality and kinds of dress, and was sad to think that nowhere else will I find the unique ethnic makeup that exists here. And I'll be hard pressed to find a woman in a muumuu on the mainland.
The weekend before, it was while at the aquarium, watching a video, hearing one of the voices say, "people like lure us" with food and "give us one stomach ache." How I will miss the local pidgen. I'll have to adjust to using all of my articles and arranging sentences in their "proper" order. I'm even sadder about having to adjust to conversations sounding less interesting.
On a happy note...
There is nothing sweeter in my life these days than seeing my two guys in the early morning hours, snuggling in bed.
I know what you mean about missing the diversity of people. I went from NO which has lots of different peoples to a part of Florida where everyone is old and white. Not that there's anything wrong with old and white, but it gets boring. I got sooo excited the other day when an ancient little Asian man came into work with his (I assume) grandson to find anatomy art books. It was such a refreshing change of pace to here a different accent (ancient old man). And the grandson was pretty darn cute!
Posted by: Emily H at February 18, 2006 10:46 PM