This week I'll be house/dog-sitting for some friends at church. It feels really weird to not really have anything to do. I have to keep telling myself that it's ok if I just sit down and read a book or watch movies. I'm just not sure what to do with myself. I think I'll find something, though.

I'll be talking to my contact at YBM in Korea about setting up a contract this week. I'm hoping that we'll be able to work it out and get more details about when I can go. It's looking like the end of July, though.

Something odd has happened in the last month: I've gotten this really strong feeling that I want to go back to Brazil. In Portuguese they have a word that they use when they miss someone that is stronger than the English word. That word is 'saudade'. You have saudade for someone or something that you long for. I'm feeling saudade towards Brazil right now.

Perhaps I'll meet a handsome Brazilian who wants to be a missionary in Korea, and then I'll be able to move to Brazil. Wishful thinking? Maybe.

Well, somehow or another, I managed to pass my honors thesis, and it's looking pretty likely that I'll graduate on Saturday. I'm finding this whole week to be a little surreal. I'm also having these feelings that I probably don't deserve my grades this semester and maybe not my degree, either.

Friday is moving day. A sad day that shall be. At least it won't be a frantic 13hr rush like last year, though.

Pink, maybe you should stay in Fayetteville a little longer.

Next week I'm going on a trip with the International Culture Team to Branson and Green Forest. I'm going to do a presentation about being an American in Brazil. =)