Salut and à Bientôt

  Salut Mihica, Sometimes the most awkward and chaotic time can be right after you graduate. Maybe like me, not everyone you know is graduating or already has. May is definitely a chaotic month here in Austin. West Campus empties, with cars on the street parking for weeks on end as everyone moves out. This year classes and the semester ended early. Graduation was on the first Saturday of May, highly unusual for the calendar. Classes commenced in the second week of January, as opposed to the usual Tuesday after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, shifting the entire schedule forward a week. It meant Spring Break happened, and then like... 4 (?) weeks until classes were over. I'm going on my usual tangent, but it has led to my current circumstances which is this unusual May transition. Currently, I am on what I call my "Goodbye Tour" which is not all that long. As I said, everyone is moving around, packing up, and leaving at different times. It's a most peculiar feeling, now ea

  Salut  (Hi)  Mihica, I remember my first attempt to make a website; I can scarcely remember the domain name, but I definitely used my handy weebly subdomain. It was a book review website back around 2016 or so. I should probably provide some context. Mihica is my BFF, and we've known each other for about eleven, almost twelve, years. Since 2015, we've been writing (typing lol) emails back and forth to each other. I have my own sort of rambling when I write, but I often prefer it. I think it's the best way I'm able to communicate over writing and my best practiced form. As such, here we are. Those who know me are rolling their eyes. A blog, how Grace! Anyway, that leads us to the purpose of this. I am heading off to the Peace Corps, as one does, to the beautiful country of the Kyrgyz Republic. For the uninitiated, it is a mountainous country in Central Asia, a -stan if you will, bordering China. I switched into the program rather late. Due to unforeseen circumstances,