Thursday, July 12, 2007

home in Dubai

Well, we did make it on all the first flights, praise the Lord! It was, again, a close call though. God has been so gracious in all our airport mishaps - there have been so many and so many possible ones too!

It's good to be in our own house, with Eeyore sniffing at everything and the warm (hot!) weather, and with friends again. Though many friends are away for the summer and many close ones have moved or are moving. That is a hard thingabout Dubai - people move around so much. A lot of teens don't connect much with others because they're afraid of getting hurt when their friends leave, but the youth group encourages people to build relationships anyway, which I think is a good thing. It can hurt, but it is still valuable.
A lot of teens I know hate Dubai, even though they don't really miss people in their home countries and even despite the malls andvarious things to do here (which you'd think they'd love, right?) yet all their friendships are shallow and surface level. Partly because it's just how they're used to things and partly because they are afraid to lose people.


My sister, Kyleigh, wrote a post on her blog that was featured on The Rebelution Blog, a blog I highly recommend. They hosted the modesty survey that I have advertised in my sidebar.


Been drawing a lot since we got home....(and Ky, droring is my word. Seriously. Thief.) and writing too, actually. I hadn't written for a long time....just short stories though. I'm better at them (and poems) than trying to do something longer.

As for what I mentioned earlier that's been really hard, I still don't want to explain it here, but it's still a pretty looming thought in my mind. Caylen and I had a good talk (and cry) together at game night tonight. But through it all, God is good.


Love,
Cait.

oh, P.S. I still have no idea who anonymous is. If I don't know you, nice to meet you, if I do, then I hope I'll find out who you are soon. And thank you.

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

going home

Tomorrow morning, Lord willing, we'll be on our way back to Dubai. Don't know if we'll make the first flight but I hope so!

We've just been in Leavenworth and it was nice. Swimming, hiking, shopping. Good.
I got to see my good friend Celisse, only for a few minutes but then we talked on the phone. She got engaged two days ago! The first of my friends to get married. I'm so excited for her!

In Leavenworth I found a peacock ornament that's amazing. And we saw peacocks at the zoo, which was pretty much the only reason I went. They walked around by themselves and everything so you could see their glorious coquettish arrogance wherever you went.

Today I read Othello. Although Ophelia is still my favourite Shakespeare character by far, Desdemona comes close. She is so tragic...the whole story is. It's worse than a bunch of good characters dying because there's a wonderful, good man who is corrupted by an evil one to turn against what's dearest and better to him. *sigh* I love that play. Oh, and Portia is cool as well, from the Merchant of Venice, though it's a comedy (tragicomedy). Just reread that one as well.

My friend Caylen has a song on her myspace called "Dear Angel" by April 6th. It's "wicked" as she would say. Apparently they're a new-ish band. Don't like their other songs though.

ok, tired. God bless.

Cait