happy new year!

i'm back and have a ton of work to catch up on so i can't really write much, but i just wanted to say hi! hopefully i'll get to catch up on reading the blog soon. i had an amazing vacation! it was so great to see my grandmothers and cousins and aunts and uncles. . .i'm really sad to be back, though. i just got used to being around tons of people all the time, so the apartment felt really empty when i got home last night, and i still haven't been able to shake off that empty feeling. oh well. i want to go back again at the end of this year, but hopefully for longer. 12 days was nowhere nearly long enough.