How has your week been? It has started to cool down here and it’s beginning to look like fall. Is it getting colder back home? We leave for Greece in a few days; if I do not write to you next week, it is because I’m somewhere without WiFi and I’m going to write as soon as I can. Do not worry!!
Grandma is coming today to watch the cats while we’re gone. She’s bringing her pet squirrel (I think I’ve mentioned him? His name’s Trooper, she found him injured as a baby) and her cat McKelvey. The other cat, Mabel, passed away a few months ago. I wonder how the cats will react to them staying there for a long time. Do you remember seeing Mabel or McKelvey? I admit that they’re so elusive that I can’t picture what they look like.
If you haven’t started school yet, I hope you have a solid few more days of vacation. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m going to Greece while you’re back home in Eugene. You never liked being separated from family, so you never wanted to come. Perhaps if nothing had happened you still wouldn’t be coming, but then you would have had a choice. Perhaps it wouldn’t matter now to go on vacations, since you are always separated from family; there is no choice anymore.
If I can, I will send you pictures. I don’t remember how I forced this website to upload your birthday present, I’ll try to do it again. I’ve gotten new film for my big camera that printed real pictures. It’d be funny to photograph those with my phone and send them. I miss you. I’ll miss you worlds away when I’m closer to Africa than I am to you (which I never considered on the last Europe vacation). I love you, Soren.
With love,
Alice