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I am suuuuper excited =)
I just thought of winter break and got really happy. Christmas is pretty cool and everything, but i never get what i want. My best friend is obsessed with Christmas, and was singing Christmas songs in the middle of September. I had to tell her to shut the fuck up. Anyways, that's not why I'm excited. I'm excited because every winter break me and my mom go to visit one of her old friends in some middle-of-nowhere place. I think it's way, way up north though. It's like a four hour drive up there, and even though that is four hours of nagging, it's totally worth it. It's on a reservation that is really small, It's really just two very long streets of government houses. My moms friend is David and he used to be my moms neighbor years before i was born. Then about 8 years ago he was working for terminex and got bit by a black widow spider. It paralyzed him from waist down. The thing i love about him is, I've never once heard him complain about being in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, even though i see him struggling with the simplest of things. Anyways, he lives on the very end of the second street, so it's pretty secluded. There is a huge grassy hill not more than 2 feet behind his house. And if you stand on his porch and look down, there is fields and fields of brilliantly colored grapes. Off to the side of the house there is a mini canyon type thing with a flowing river. And trees, everywhere.
But the very best thing about this wonderful place is, it's under a constant cloud of rain. Beautiful rain, not the messy Alameda rain. The kind of rain that makes the trees come alive and makes you want to roll down that grassy hill even though it's like 30 degrees outside. It makes everything smell fresh and new, like all of the scenery was newly created. And you could sit for hours watching the rain in amazement. I love when it rains. And because we go in the winter, my favorite season, it's always raining :)
When it's not raining, it's most likely cloudy. Which is cool with me too because I'm not a big fan of sunlight. The mornings are probably the best, because it's usually stopped raining for a moment. And you step outside and everything is just..indescribable. I love seeing the wild animals, like the deer and turkeys, and sounds of other wild birds/animals are pretty to listen to when your sitting there, thinking. It's the times i can remember being most relaxed in my entire life. And at night, the stars are just another thing that amazes me. Looking at the stars, which i am obsessed with doing, is nothing like looking at stars in Alameda though. Whenever i look up at nighttime, i feel like I'm being let in on a seceret that not many people know about.
Anyways, i CAN NOT wait, to get outtttta here.