Speaking of Best Days Ever

Autumn is made for perfect days. I have had two days that fall into the "perfect days" category and today looks to be doing the same.

I had better revel in it now, because the real work begins tomorrow.

Friday:

• 4th graders (they have a lot of energy but that's better than having a bunch of apathy. I am of course referring to the 8th graders I taught this winter)
  
• 65 degrees, sunny, breezy
• Driving through the pretty part of Manchester,
  
• Groceries and looking at (and wishing I had the money to buy) white asparagus and graffiti eggplant and peaches
  
• Bavaria (those of you who visited in the spring might remember me saying that I really wanted to try this restaurant. It was great. Pretty intense-lots of meat)
• Watching Tootsie
• Tom Salleck's mustache in The Killers (this movie is the worst I have see in a long time and that includes the Twilight movies. If you know me, you know that is saying a lot).

Saturday:

• Sleeping in
• Going to the Hillsboro County Agricultural Fair in New Boston
  
• Gorgeous weather
• Bunnies
• Sheep
• Goats (including dwarf breeds and babies!)
• Baby Donkey
• Chickens
• Gelato
• Square Dancing
• Pizza
• Looking at Apple Pie winners
• Going down the giant slide. Twice.
• The Drive to New Boston
• Early bed

Sunday:

• Church
• Cloudy
• Rain
• Rest
• Hoodie
• Buttercup Squash
• Italian Sausage
• Whoopie pie

Like I said, though, the real work starts tomorrow.

It's strange and kind of scary to think that I only have 40 days left here. That's 5 and 1/2 weeks. Just over a month. I only have 4 and 1/2 weeks left of fall programs. I will be home soon whether it be on a plane or via road trip.

I'm not ready. I don't have anything to do. I have no plan. I don't know when I will have a plan. But the important thing is how much I have learned about myself, my ideals, what's important, and the life in general since I have been out here.

It's too early for the big end-of-the-internship reflection so I will stop with that.

I hope the end of everyone's summer is going great.