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HOME FOR THE SUMMER!

Went downtown today, and was almost instantly overcome with regret. WHY did I EVER choose to leave such a vibrant, bustling place? It's terrible, how god awful i feel whenever I remember how I didn't pick DePaul because it was "too expensive." What a joke. I should've just gone there.

I've missed my city. So often, my senior year of high school, I would joke with a teacher, Mr. Ahn. I'd say, "after all this, I'm moving to Hawai'i." And he would respond with a comment something along the lines of "you and I would like it there; it's a bunch of people like us."

I've spent the last year or so trying to figure out where my people are. And sometimes I feel like they're here. And other times I just feel like I'm lost.

I don't know.

Sai, my unofficial younger seester, was tapped to give the speech at the senior luncheon. I tried to help her come up with some ideas for her speech - a REAL Special Occasion Speech, finally! - and that just brought back a flood of memories.

I can't believe I had the privilege of gazing up at the night sky from the Chicago harbor, with jazz music playing in the background with all my friends dressed to the nines, not once but THREE times. I can't believe i've seen more broadway plays in the last three years than I care to count and I've been to both Costa Rica and Spain. I've worn hippy clothes to school, a tutu, sarah palin outfit, and about 324789372849327 cardigans. I've spent more hours in that silly publications office than I care to remember, and took a bus to see my oldest friend in minnesota. I applied to college, got into college, walked across a stage in a cap and gown, and then actually went. I performed one of the funniest dance skits that HEHS has ever seen and I took a picture next to a plaque with my name on it in the hollowed halls of my high school.

I have lived in a different, more hellacious state (Missourah) and seen what it's like elsewhere. I've been to DC, Barcelona, Grand Rapids, NYC, and San Jose. I've met, new exciting people from all over the country.

And I'm still most happy here.

My, I have led a wonderful life. Thank you for being a part of it. :)

Sam