Nephew

WOW… do I have a lot to talk about.

 

First things first, I am now a very proud Uncle of by far the coolest nephew ever.

 

My Sister (Christa) and her Husband (Gastin) have adopted a little boy from Liberia. They got him from a family that had originally adopted him from there, but he just wasn’t fitting in with the family that had originally taken him in. So, my sister and her husband who had known they wanted to adopt since before they were married went and met him and fell in love with the little guy. His name is Samuel and he turns 6 in September. They officially got to take him home on the 21^st of July, which also happened to be their 2 year anniversary. It’s a pretty sweet story.

 

But now here comes the tricky part. They are moving to Alaska on July 30^th with Samuel and have no plans of coming home for Christmas or anything as of yet. So I’m in a pickle, if I don’t change my flight and come home in like a few days so I can spend a few days being the coolest uncle in the world so its not a whole year until I meet him. I’m writing this blog while I sit and wait for the customer service for northwest airlines to open up in 2 hours, so I’m not sure what is going to happen as of yet.

 

I know this for sure though, if I can come home I will. And its not at all because I don’t like it here or that I want to leave this place. But if being here this past month has taught me anything its that even if you can make friends quickly like I can it’s a totally different ball game to have people that you really are close to and would do anything for. Obviously my family and new nephew fit into that category as well as many of my friends back home in Ohio, Florida, and around the world from CAJ.  I have made great friends here but none that I share a bond with like I do people like Yosh Morita, Drew Lord or Stephanie Devine to just name a few from different areas. I came into this trip knowing that I wanted to get an experience of a life time, and I can say that even now with my trip only half way over that I truly have gotten that experience, but what I didn’t expect was to learn how important it is to be able to share those life changing experiences with people that you truly love. I have gotten plenty of awesome experiences up till now, but now that I’m getting more settled in to life here its beginning to be just more of the same experiences rather than new ones. 

 

I think the hardest thing about leaving early is going to be explaining to the Captain and crew my situation and why I need to leave in their broken English. I’m really worried they won’t understand and will think I’ve basically played them by telling them I was going to be here till the end of August since I got here now all of the sudden I’m up and leaving. I really need to find a way to get it through to them that this wasn’t in mine or anyone’s plans its just kind of happened, I’m thrilled it has, but it wasn’t what I had planned on. Also, I’m going to leaving my roommate hanging, with no roommate and rent due in like 3 days. I’ve saved up enough to give her a little bit of my extra money to help buy her time, but its not gonna help much.

 

If I do come home early its not going to be easy, I’m going to have to find a new job quickly, and its going to be even more difficult because I really want to find a job where I can gain some office experience rather than just a laborer job. And with this economy, that’s not going to be easy. But I feel like at this point if my flight change goes smoothly I’m making the right decision, so in the end it’ll work out I’m sure of it.