أن الله جميل يحب الجمال

Well the month of June has come and past so let's recap what happened. I moved into my new apartment in the U St. area and got kicked out two weeks later. I had a friend live with me for about half the time I resided in my apartment while she was looking for one of her own...little did I know I'd be looking soon enough too.

I started taking Arabic...which became more of a challenge than I anticipated. I went to a VAWA rally on the Hill, hung out in Maryland, hung out in Virginia, ate fresh fruit at the farmer's market. I biked to work almost every day, even during the heat wave. I saw the Avengers and craved schwarma after. I ate hotdogs and celebrated birthdays. I saw 90% of Magic Mike until the power went out in the theater and we had to leave.

I realized I was lucky to have power this past weekend as a lot of people in Maryland and northern DC lost their power, trees fell, and the heat persisted.

I got a little tan, a little sunburned.

I swam in a pool and dreamed of the beach and the reservoir in Waltham, MA. I dreamed of hiking through the New Hampshire woods and kayaking in the lakes...and slowly realized I'm going back to a landlocked city in a month with no clean body of water to swim in.

June has been an extremely busy month hosting friends, studying Arabic, and adjusting to a new job have not been easy. At times I wish I was already home in St. Louis or had gone back to Champaign, but now the reality has hit that I just have one more month left in DC and I'm going to try and enjoy every minute.