1:50pm
I just addressed an envelope full of fragrant rose petals.
This morning I was talking to Amy on the computer and said, "I've got to get going, today we're visiting Australia's oldest hedge maze" and Amy thought that would be an excellent "washing your hair" kind of excuse to get out of unpleasant things and plans to use it someday. I really did go to a hedge maze though.
The Ashcombe Maze is actually made up of two claustrophobic opaque (i've always wanted to use that word) hedge mazes and one rose bush maze where you can see through and over the "walls" of course (but don't think that helps, it's way more difficult than the others). Today it was just me and the boys (Steve, Robert and Alex). Robert and Alex were quite good at finding their way through, but it took Steve and I a long time to get to the middle of the rose maze. I didn't really mind cuz I was happy just looking at the flowers, picking pretty petals as I passed. Robert and Alex made fun of us from the tiny gazebo at the centre.
Robert is not the kind of boy you want to get lost in a hedge maze with. Yet, today at several points I had glimpses of the Robert I like. He was almost playful today.
I've never done anything like that before. 2:01pm
3:41pm
I've had a swim (1 more lap than yesterday) and a shower and just got back from mailing
a late letter and getting something for Shaughn from the
milk bar. I'm gonna
miss that little milk bar and the guy that works there who can't decide if he's a nice guy or not.
And two dollar strawberries. And the
newsagent that smells
like news. And giant chocolate bars that cost much more than strawberries. I want to start
packing. 3:45pm
4:43pm
Twenty-six minutes from now it will be exactly four days til the time my flight itinerary
says I'm supposed to be at home.
6:25pm
I am not feeling very good. I am starting to hate things. Yesterday when I felt like this I
tried crying, sleeping, swimming and listening to Nirvana and none of those were able to
banish my bad mood. It took eating candy and watching Disney cartoons with Alex to make
me feel better. Shaughn says out of all the Disney characters, he thinks I resemble Alice in
Wonderland the most. Funny, I don't feel very curious today.
11:28pm
I'm on such a fucking rollercoaster today. I go from moments of desperate homesickness
to thoughts of how I will miss this place and these people. Tonight we experimented with
the new digital camera whilst the boys played with Robert's new toy, a keyboard that was his
early xmas present. It felt sorta like a family and nearly like Christmas.
I have to stop writing and finish the novel I'm reading cuz it's too terrible to take to Canada. 11:33pm
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