I'm home!

Yup, I'm home! And jet-lag hasn't really hit yet... so here's hoping it won't!

It's a seriously small world because in London, when I got on the plane, I found myself sitting next to a young woman, a bit younger than me. She had a friendly face, so I struck up the usual conversation... "You going home for Christmas...?" She happened to mention that she was in Cameroon doing some linguistic research, working on an alphabet and a dictionary. I said, "Um, you don't happen to work for [insert name of the organization I work for here], do you?" Sure enough, she was there for a 2 year intern with the same organization that I work for!

She worked with a lot of the folks that I studied with and know from other bits of work I've done with my organization! How crazy is that? So we ended up having a really nice chat, and just chatted about our work, and about going home and all that. Really neat. I couldn't believe that of all the planes going back to N. America, on all the days, and with all the seats on that plane... there we were, sitting next to each other!

Anyways, at about 6pm, we landed at home, I got through customs no problem, my bag came quite quickly, and I was out the door, searching the sea of expectant faces for my parents. Good thing my dad's a big guy - pretty easy to spot him in a crowd! My parents wanted to go straight to a restaurant for supper, but considering I hadn't had a shower in a few days and was pretty tired, I asked to go home for a shower first. So we did - and I had the most wonderful (but quick - we were all quite hungry!) hot shower. Then it was off to Swiss Chalet for some yummy chicken (man, I had forgotten just how fat the chickens are in these parts!).

I managed to stay awake until almost 11pm! I woke up feeling SO thirsty at about 2:30am. And unfortunately, I was pretty wide awake, so after finding some water from the water bottle I had in my carry-on (which hadn't gotten unpacked yet!), I read for about 15 minutes... and quickly fell right back to sleep. My eyelids didn't flutter again until 9am! Today, I stayed awake the entire day, and am only now starting to feel sleepy... but it's almost 10pm again, so I'm allowed to start feeling sleepy now! So I'm just going to have a cup of tea (mmm... Earl Grey!), a bit of chocolate and then tumble back into bed.

Tomorrow morning I get to go see my hair-dressing buddy who will hopefully transform me into a vision of beauty once again. I'm so sick and tired of wearing my "missionary" style hair in a ponytail every day! I'm feeling rather desperate for a real haircut, so I'm really looking forward to tomorrow morning! If all goes well, I'll post a photo of my new do tomorrow so you can see just how beautiful I have become :)