Miami has an elevation of 12 ft?
The average daily temperature is 76 degrees F?
Miami-Dade county has 1,955 square miles?
5.5 million people fill that space?
Miami has one of the largest snow skiing clubs in the United States?
Miami is home to 150+ ethnicities and 60 languages?
-and I believe that English is probably language number 60
The average amount of days with sunshine each year is 250?
-I think Goshen is like 3!
I only have 14 days left here?
Only 14 days left? Where has all the time gone to? It seems like just yesterday I was slowly edging towards the door at YLC extremely scared to be in the environment of the "ghetto" of Little Haiti. Now, just 4 quick months later, I am at my last four and half days left there, as they start talking to me about a replacement person. Letting me be a little bit on the board of hiring, asking me for opinions of people that would do good with the boys I am leaving behind.
Only about 14 days total left here on the shores of the Sunshine State until I return the devastation state of Indiana, but mainly just Goshen. I love the place, but it will be hard to go from the Sunshine Capital of the Nation to the cloudiest city in the nation. And coldest as well! What is this I hear about single digit temperatures and ice?! I am leaving 90 degree days to fly to Chicago in less than an hour and I only have a sweatshirt. If I make it back to Florida without frost bite, it is going to be a miracle!
Last night while eating supper with my room mates, we started talking a bit about coming back next semester and when everyone will finally be back and it made me already start to miss it here, even though I was still here. I didn't really think this would happen, but 4 months on being in a place, you start to have your routine and become attached. I started thinking about one of my favorite country songs by Trace Adkins that says in the chorus:
You're gunna miss this
You're gunna want this back
You're gunna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know this now
But you're gunna miss this
It goes on to talk about a girl rushing through life. Once she gets to one stage she is continually looking ahead to what is next and rushing to get there, but someone is telling her to slow down and take it all in, because she is really going to miss these days. I think it is hitting home, while packing back to take to Chicago which will never return to Miami, that the leaving date is really coming, and soon this will no longer be home, but yet, like every other American, just a fantasy land of travel and vacation.
I am gunna miss this, and I will want it back (except for maybe teaching. I don't think I will want that one back) Maybe I will have it back though! Maybe I will return after graduating Goshen in April and head back south. I never know where the needle on my compass is pointing, because my destinations change everyday. It will be interesting to see what direction my life will take next. Who knows, maybe Anchorage, Alaska!
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