A Heavy Heart

While I don't actually feel like I have much to write about right now I figure a week has almost gone by again and I could come up with something for you all to read. Makenna's blog is much more entertaining and what she is doing sure sounds much more fun. I am however living and working so I suppose that is to be expected. I have our adventures paid for and were working on setting dates so then I will get to have my fun and do the cool stuff. The ironic part is that after being here for a while this city is totally a city that would fit Makenna more than me and here I am while she hangs out on the beach.  

Anyways, tomorrow is Anzac Day, a national holiday which I learned is basically the same as our Veteran's Day so there is no school which for me means no work! Not that I have any plans what-so-ever but it will still be nice to not have to work in the middle of the day. I also get paid on Friday! YAY! This is probably the best part of my week because I have been so broke that an actual paycheck is going to be wonderful. Even better, its going to go directly into my Aussie account which I have yet to use. This should help me pay bills, eat and maybe start making payments to my Grad school deposit.... damn that $500. It is extremely inconvenient right now.

Among my trivial rants and antidotes, I have very little to report but even less to complain about. Today, I read a blog from one of my classmates from High School. I can't stay we were close friends or anything but she was always wonderfully nice to everyone, athletic and smart. Her blog reported an update on her fight with cancer and that she was recently informed that it had spread and there was a tumor growing around her lung... she was told she may have only days or weeks to live. I can't even imagine what she is going through and it has weighed heavy on my heart all day today. Its made me take a moment out of this life I am living to simply be happy to be sitting on the couch... to know that I am healthy. I am living in Australia and I have so much ahead of me even if it is unknown and scary. I took a little deeper of a breath during my walk and embraced the rain that fell on my face. It makes me so sad to know that her life could be cut so short, especially someone who I looked up to and admired, and who is so young and has so much to give the world. She very well may be me or anyone else I care about. Life is so short and the older I get the more I realize that. I guess this blog is about more then sharing my adventures because today this is all I have thought about...If I prayed I think this would be a time I would, but instead I send positive thoughts and love out to her and her family. I suppose that is essentially what prayers are...