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So I have been back home for about a week and a half. Last weekend I headed down to Greensboro with my mom to visit all my friends at Guilford while my mom hung out with her friend Flo. It was an interesting weekend. Seeing all of my friends after three and a half months was wonderful. It was a little weird, everything is different. That is the hard part about being away for a long time, not only that my life continues without the people I love, but that everyone else's lives continue as well, and I am not there to see it. I came to Guilford on a perfect weekend. Alethea was heading up WQFest. For those of you who don't know, WQFS is one of the top rated college radio stations in the country and I happened to come to Guilford on the weekend of the first ever WQFest, getting to spend all of Saturday listening to live music with some of my best friends.

But I am getting ahead of myself. Back to the whole getting home part. There was this huge volcano in Iceland that spread a huge cloud of ash over most of Europe making air traffic impossible for almost a week. I left on April 23rd, one of the first days that airlines were flying, and I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be getting home. I flew from Florence to Frankfurt, then Frankfurt to DC. I was relatively sure I was going to be camping out in the Frankfurt airport for at least a night. But I got lucky. My flight from Florence to Frankfurt was delayed an hour (not the lucky part) so I had about five minutes to make my connection. I got off the plane and there was a bus to drive all of us going to DC directly to our gate (well sort of) we got to the terminal, skipped security, had our passports stamped and sprinted to the gate.  I got on the plane and it took off ten minutes later. It was a pretty surreal day. I was sitting next to a very sweet German couple who did not seem to mind my snoring through half the flight.

I was home for a day, then headed down to Guilford. I got there in time for the Senior Thesis Art Show. It was one of the best thesis show I have ever been to at Guilford. There were nine seniors displaying art,  and all of them had beautiful work, from drawing and print making to painting to photography to sculpture and installation.

And not we are back to where I began. WQFest. The headliner was The Tallest Man on Earth, one of my favorite singer/songwriters. I saw him live in Barcelona and it was one of the best shows I had ever seen, so I was really excited to see him again, at my school with all of my friends. This picture is of me and Alethea watching is awe, if you look closely you can see us there in the dark.  The Tallest Man on Earth's real name is Kristian Matsson. He is from Sweden and it actually not very tall. We talked to him before and afterwards. He was so nice, and was glad I enjoyed the show at Guilford and in Barcelona. He even gave me hug.

Some other highlights of the weekend include Greenleaf dinner on Friday night (African curried soup,) shopping at Target with Alethea, and going to Jan's House at midnight with Fran and Justin, my former flatmates.

Now that I am back home I need to work on finding a job. At the moment I am filling in at The Artful Quilter, where my mom works. In my free time, i.e most of my time, I have been watching bad tv and knitting or sewing (new books!), not to mention napping. Oh and some yoga thrown in there.