2nd letter to mully
sayang,
sorry it took me awhile. i shouldn't have mentioned that i'm going to tell you a story in the first place, really, because what i'm going to tell you is not a story. it's rather about how things remind me of you. which is why i chose to say it with an email. you know how i'm not a verbal person. i feel more comfortable expressing my feelings and thoughts through writings.
but you also know, that writing is not easy. i have to be in the mood to do it. right now i have just went back from chris's house ( he's aiesec's current president), we had a christmas party before everyone goes home, also to celebrate our accomplishments for the year, academic-wise or aiesec-wise. dave drove me home (he's the president for next year), and when i entered the house it was so quiet. everybody has gone to the dreamlands. i opened the fridge, drank some apple juice, turned on the heater, the notebook, and i thought, this is the perfect time to write.
so here i am writing. just for the record, it's 1:48 am.
i can explain in a straightforward manner, but maybe what i should do is to tell you how i have been doing first.
i wonder how your italian exam went. was it okay? were you confident? i don't know what happened to our last chat using msn, 45 minutes before you did that. remember? i assumed your connection has gone bad and there was nothing you could do anyway, so you decided to call it a day and heading for your exam.
i'm not usually good at guessing, but i'd rather have this version of the story.
last week was hectic as you might recall what i told you. i really hoped i pulled everything off just fine, otherwise i'm going to cry my ass in january. you don't want that to happen. i spent the whole sunday sleeping—at least i tried to get some balance for my lack of sleep the previous week. i got up from my bed around 3:30 pm or something. the sun was going to set (it usually sets around 4:30 this time of the year), and i cooked something for my meal. i don't know what are you going to call that: breakfast? lunch? dinner? it's nasi goreng by the way. easy stuff.
i decided to go downtown for a bit after i took my shower. packed like chopped tuna in a can. okay that's an exaggeration. but it was full, you just couldn't believe it. yesterday was the hay day minus 5. obviously everyone is still frenzy for their christmas shopping. i got to the bay centre (it's the centre mall of victoria) around 5 pm and none of the shops were empty although the place itself was going to close in an hour time. i thought i might want to treat myself from there but i couldn't find anything, plus i'm a little bit short of money. oh well. i went to chapters afterwards, the biggest bookstore we have just a block away from the bay centre. amused myself with all the merchandise and books, and couldn't resist to buy yet another book: the kite runner by khaled hosseini.
i had to do some aiesec work when i got home last night. i was trying to compile a job description for our next internal exchange in january. her name is ego and she's from nigeria. i did that and also i had to email her and the executive boards reporting the progress. it didn't take that long before i worn out and gone to bed.
today i promised jenny—she's our current trainee from germany and she works for the university's career services—to help her doing the photo shooting for the poster of the career fair that we're having next year. i had to dress fancy and look professional (with suit and everything) and we had a photo shooting session for an hour. it was fun, me and dave and her girlfriend mavis were the model. we took almost 300 pictures just to look for that one perfect shot. it was crazy but it's fun, no doubt. the rest of the day was purely aiesec work. dave had to work at the restaurant and mavis was with him, and i had to help jenny doing layout for the poster as well as putting the booklet together. it. was. exhaustive. and. frustating. we had to deal with all small technical details that will definitely ruin everything if we just leave it like that. i practically worked at the career services the whole day, helping jenny. it feels nice though, pretending as if you're working office job. i was there 10 to 6. yes, we worked overtime (the office was closed at 4:30). and it's not over yet, i had to go back doing the booklet again tomorrow. goodbye relaxing holiday.
it's not that i have to do all this. i'm doing this because i'd rather be busy and productive than just fooling around with nothing better to do during the holiday. this christmas i'm going to nanaimo (it's a city 2 hours north of victoria) with jenny and her roommate jerry to visit matt, another aiesecer. we'll leave on the 24th, stay overnight, and come back to victoria after the christmas dinner eve. after that i have all the time to fool around before we go to calgary on the 30th for 5 days for the conference (they subsidized my for $200, it's awesome). by january 5th school has started. i'm not really looking forward to that.
damn. i think i wrote too much introduction that now i'm getting really tired while i haven't got into my point yet. i'm going to continue the letter probably tomorrow honey. again, if i have the mood. most likely i will; it's all in my head now. but now i need a good night sleep, for tomorrow i'll have another long day.
i miss you honey, i really do.
love,
your too-busy boyfriend