As I travel and live away from Alaska I am constantly reminded how lucky I am to have my friends and family. I just got back from a 4 day break in Scotland and I returned to Meylan, France to my room to discover three letters and a package waiting for me. I had a letter from my aunt, a letter from my grandma, and a card that had been signed by a bunch of my family members "just because." The package was from a close friend in Scotland, it was "a wee sparkly card" and a pair of earring I had been coveting for ages.
At the same moment I had to email my dad to inform him that once again disaster had struck his wayward daughter. I lost my cell phone while I was in Scotland, lost meaning I had managed to forget it in a taxi...never to be seen again. My friend Sam jumped into action and lent me her spare phone and Dad did the same. He scrounged up a spare phone at home and unlocked it so he could mail it to me. I lost my debit card three times in 2009 and my dad had the solution each time no matter where I happened to be located at the time. He is an amazing problem solver even though I think I manage to up the ante each time. I am hoping he views it as a challenge rather than the pain in the ass that it really is!
Every now and then I have moments where I am overwhelmed by how amazing everyone around me is. I am very lucky and blessed to have such a wonderful group of people in my life. Hopefully I can continue to remember this whenever things are difficult.
I think that will be all for now but more coming later on French life and thoughts about it.
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