Homesick

I think I am actually really truly homesick for the first time since being here.  Of course I have missed my family and friends, but now I am honestly homesick.  I love this time of year at home.  Celebrating Easter at Hosanna and then hanging out with the extended family and celebrating April birthdays is always such a good time.  I am really going to miss that this year. And I am spending my 21st birthday in the middle of a desert instead of with my closest family and friends.   I miss even the simple things like having relatives call and sing happy birthday (although my host brother Braeden offered to call multiple times during the day pretending to be various relatives singing obnoxiously to me).  I guess you could say I am homesick.

I am sure I will say this though and come back and blog about how awesome Easter was with the Townsends and how amazing the food was (I’m excited!) and I will probably even come back from the Outback excited about the experience I had there.  At the moment though, I miss home.