RESERVATIONS?! Oops!

I forgot to expound on that comment I made in the previous entry I posted.

After many days of intensive research, I have finally settled on specific times and days that I will begin my journey back home to Alaska.

March 28th I will fly in the morning from Port Au Prince to Miami where I will overnight before flying out the next morning from Miami to Seattle where I have a long lay-over (long enough to take the bus into town to hit Pikes Place Market - drink some real AMERICAN coffee!! and walk over to REI to dream a bit before returning back to the airport to fly from Seattle to my hometown of Sitka. I will remain in Sitka visiting family, friends, taking care of exciting business such as taxes, catching up with paperwork etc. From Sitka I will fly back up to Anchorage in order to complete my semester of college as well as catch up with family and friends there.

My sister had her third baby boy, literally an hour prior to my leaving Anchorage for Miami. I have a lot of catching up to do with little Cooper who is today, two months old!

Then it is planning for summer college classes, applying for scholarships, doing fundraising for the orphanages in Haiti, deciding on what to do for summer time work etc.

This gift of existance, my life, despite any difficulty, is never void of opportunities or adventure. I like it that way, I am truly blessed.

I love Haiti, and I enjoy my time here, however, I will not deny missing my family and friends, and a good Americano with a half shot of French Vanilla flavoring, three inches of steamed up skinny milk with a good few dallops of foam on the top, my favorite cinnamon raisen bagel toasted with a little peanut butter and the briskness of the fresh morning air that Alaska provides. So much to be thankful for whether here or there. I am so glad to be learning that my 'home,' and contentedness, really is literally, where my heart is...and that is where my two feet are literally planted.