Time? What's time?

Hi Mom & Dad,

So does it feel like I've been gone for seven weeks? Can you believe I'm at my halfway point? I feel like I haven't been home in a long time so to call this "halfway" seems like I have so much longer to go here. But what's weird is while I feel like I haven't been home in forever- and while I'm as comfortable strolling along the streets of Antigua as I was in Batavia, I feel like it was just yesterday that I was agonizing over trying to fit four months worth of clothes into one suitcase with all of my closet on my bedroom floor. Oh how time flies.

I've learned in these past 18 years of mine (soon to be 19- hope you haven't forgotten that I'm turning 20 next year) that the second half of things usually seems to pass by much quicker than the first. In this case I'm not really sure how I feel about that. While I'm craving fall and all of it's colors, going to miss pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving, and can't wait to be back for winter all cozied up on the couch during the Christmas season...I can't imagine come December I'll be saying, "Hokay Antigua. We had a good run. Catch ya on the flip side." I mean, who would be ready to say goodbye to this? The only thing I have to complain about here (yes, here I go again) is that I've been sick with more things in these past seven weeks than I have in my past seven years at home. Loco, yo se. But don't worry, my host family takes care of me like we share blood. Today when the water pressure in the

See you before you know ishower was reduced to one pitiful stream, Sylvia & Noami (the girl who helps around the house here) helped me wash my hair in the sink haha.

The ranking of who I miss the most in the Greco household is constantly changing, but right now Liv is #1.
t,
Rachael