5 weeks to Christmas Break.

Being a transfer student, my hometown inevitably comes up in almost every conversation. And either the other person momentarily thinks I'm Canadian and exotic, or they ask me that horrible question 'What is there to do in Vancouver anyway?'

Of course I'm polite.
Of course I joke about the city life 'only 20 minutes away in Portland!'.

Of course I want to slap them across the face.

Maybe I romanticize the past a little too much, but so much of who I am and who I want to be is still there...

...in Mrs. Dignan's classroom, on Riverview's playground, at Lacamas Lake, along the stretch of Talton, on the Weaver's trampoline, in the view of Mt. Hood, at Clark College, buckled into a Mazda3.

The Couve is anything but monotonous. It's where my family lives, where I fell in love, where I return for encouragement. There's so much to look forward to in my life, but I can never let go of what home means to me.

That's all definitely too heavy to share in small talk though ;)

I miss you. I'll see you soon.

Currently listening to: I Don't Trust Myself by Mike Posner and Mine by Taylor Swift

xoxo
Caitlin
caitlinboyd72@gmail.com