I'm sitting here in my room watching a crazy lightening storm (and a few episodes of Friends) and relaxing before night shift, so it seems like a pretty good time to write a quick update. I've had a ton of things that I have wanted to blog about in the past month, but haven't yet been able to put the proper words to my thoughts, so I just haven't blogged any words... Maybe those thoughts will come together in time.
August was a month of adjustments for me here. Adjusting to the heat again, getting used to always being sweaty and the amount of water to drink to avoid constant headaches, adjusting to my favourite Irish Aisling leaving, thus making Edolbina and I the second years (yikes!), getting in the swing of assignments and clinic work again, and adjusting again to being so far from Canada. I struggled a lot in the first weeks back, wishing that the places and people I love were much closer to each other, but that's not the reality. So in the meantime, I will embrace where I am at, knowing that in just over a year it is going to be my lovely home here that I am missing in the same way that I miss Canada now.
I came across a quote today that pretty clearly explained the way I feel... I wish I could have put it into words like this myself, but someone else did the trick nicely.
"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will
always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness
of loving and knowing people in more than one place."
In other news - gosh I'm so happy to be back to baby catching! I missed the moms, the bellies, and the baby's while I was in Canada. Every day I feel so fortunate to be here, doing what I love and have dreamed of for years! As this year goes on, I would so appreciate if you would keep me in your prayers. Pray for the clinic, for the patients we see every day, for the babies we help welcome into the world, and for the amazing midwives I get to work with.
Oh! and please enjoy the fall for me!!!! I have been dreaming of wearing sweaters, scarves, and boots. Strange? Maybe. But I would say pretty typical for a fall/winter girl living in an endless summer.
Much love,
A
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