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-Chandler.

its true.

OHKAY, OHKAY! i got my permit!.!.! I'm so excited. just thought I'd let you know that. ohh yes.  I was so scared. but the test? easy as...cake? yep. i got a 100. anyway! dont worry about being on the roads. i'll be just fine. :)

WHAT IS THIS?

i had a brilliant time in Virginia this past week. i love liberty. and Dominique. BUT! on the way home. Washington DC, yes our country's capital was where we had our  almost 3 hour lay over.  It. was. insane.

Huge. but the weird part about it was that i felt totally awkward! not that this is uncommon for me. But the workers hardly spoke English. Everyone time i opened my mouth everyone there would stare at me. They were almost all foreigners. I'm used to that of course, but it was not what i was expecting.  People acted like I WAS THE FOREIGNER! i was like ehem? this is my country. I'm not as weird as you think, promise.  and where are from??  I guess it didnt help that im an okie. Its just crazy to think that you can feel so out of place and almost unwanted in your own country's capital! whoa is right. ohhkay, maybe I'm being a tiny bit dramatic..

but still.

do you fit in?

There are a few special needs girls in vbs this week.  One of which is in my small group.  She's only a month younger than me. It seems like she desires so badly to be accepted.  She has a strong heart, and is always wanting to help out and be a leader.  She acts a little bit differently than most girls my age, but she's very sweet and never stops smiling.  Yesterday she gave me a best friend bracelet and told me I was the nicest friend she's ever had.  Just makes me wonder what her life is like outside of this week, and why this world is so cruel.

never given so many piggy back rides in one day.

so this week.. im helping teach cheer leading at vbs for our church. its lots of fun, but im not exactly a cheerleader unless you count bruins camp when i was 5.  im having a lot of fun, but little girls...would really rather just talk and tell you about their great aunt's cousin who speaks french while doing yoga than learn what youre supposed to be teaching them. they hang all over you and want to be your best friend. all of them. all at once.  theyre cute though, so its all good. :) we as the helpers have to be super excited and fun.  dominiques teaching 5 year old boys soccer outside in the oh so intense heat. so im just glad im not her. 4 more days!  we're teaching the kids little dances about guacamole and milk or something. its weird. just gotta have fun!

disheartened.

Dominique Feria. She's leaving me. 18 hours away leaving me.  I can't take it.  I'm so confused on how this could be the best thing for their family.  Well, really I guess I'm not.  Its just...its not the best thing for me. Selfish, I know. I go to bed upset and I wake up sad.  I'm in one of my depressed moods at the moment, which hardly happens.  But I'm going to camp in less than 7 days and when I get back she won't be here anymore.  I love Kanakuk.  It's just a little bit hard to be excited knowing that when I get home the house where I've spent hours and hours of my days will be empty. Without Makaio, Livi, and Kale'a.  Dominique is absolutely one of the most life filled, exciting, loving, accepting people I know.  She's pretty funny too. :)  She's one of my best friends ever and I wasn't expecting her to leave at all.  Two of my friends left me last year and I was very not so joyous then as well.  But for some reason they both ended up coming back.  Which is fantastic. Its just...I have a feeling its not going to be this way with the Ferias. Seems like when all is perfect, complete entirety begins to fall apart.   Everything inside of me wishes this was all a bad dream.    I can't wake up.