Muscle Memory.

 It's 5am here, and jetlag reminded me I haven't wrote on here in a while and now would be a good time.

I just got back from visiting family and friends in the states. It's over five  months since I left Atlanta frozen in a sheet of January ice. Going back to my house was a strange experience,  I felt like a visitor at a friends house. I was told e that once you leave home, you never really come back. I can honestly say that that's completely true. Right now, home for for me is a house on 12 Westwood with a wicker hippo on the porch and an American flag proudly hanging in the dinning room. But I don't think I will ever fully have a place I fully feel at "home" till I start a family of my own.

 I started noticing little details as well. Like how Georgia has a certain smell. It's an earthy, farm like smell of thing growing I guess. I also realized how many red clayed dirt roads there are, all over grown with thick green foliage and protected by rusty gates that have long since been forgotten.

Something else I found bizarre was how quickly I picked back up on things. Friends I haven't seen in 1/2 a year I could just pick back up a conversation with like no time has passed at all. I could hop in a car and drive back on the right side of the road without a problem ( I did hit the windshield wiper for a turn signal a few times however). It was almost like muscle memory of my old habits and rituals had just kick started to life once my plane touched the ground. 

I did manage to get a lot in while I was back. I got some more winter clothes, which is nice because I didn't bring near enough. I went fishing with my dad and Papaw, I normally don't fully enjoy fishing trips but this one was pretty awesome. I got to go out to eat with heaps of people and get to get my fill of American cuisine at the same time. One of the highlights, was going rock climbing with my sister. I had never thought I would enjoy scaling walls high above the ground, due to a past phobia of heights, but I actually did! It's a sport I want to get more into when I come back. 

I'm debating on whether I should come return state side for another visit next month. I feel like I should just stay here, seeing as I spent a year just trying to get here. But it's kind of all up in the air now, and heaps of people are expecting me to come back.

The next few days look a little are going to involve a good deal of studying and typing up assessments that need to be turned in on Monday by midnight. Then, the rest of the week is going to be a breeze seeing as there is we don't have any tutorial classes. We have also decided we want to try getting plugged into a connect group.  I have been feeling like we have been getting left out of the Hillsong community by not belonging to one.