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“Always believe that the impossible is always possible”
-Selena
Happy Friday! I am on the road again, heading back to NYC!! I am nervous and have some anxiety about going back, but I know this is the right decision. I have to move on and get back to my life, whatever that will look like from now on. I know I will not be running back to bars, restaurants, or stores anytime soon, but I will be walking around the city and maybe getting together with a friend or two at the park. Getting back to the life I knew before the virus.
I am really going to miss being in Ohio. Yesterday I said goodbye to my niece and felt heartbroken that I will not be able to see her until the holidays. The same with my grandmother, my parents, and the rest of my family. I already feel homesick for them. I really enjoyed my time here, but I can’t live at my parent’s house for the rest of my life. I must move on and I do love the city so much.
Anyway, this past week I spent doing everything I have enjoyed doing for the past 3 months. I rode bikes with my dad and we played tennis twice! I am getting much better at tennis but still not good enough to keep score. I realized while playing that my dad was not serving overhand, instead just hitting the ball over. When I asked him why he wasn’t serving correctly and if he was doing it to be nice to me, he said it was because he has not served in a long time. I told him to just give it a try. He did and the ball came at me so fast, like he was Roger Federer, so I made him go back to serving the ball at a slower pace. It turns out he was doing it to go easy on me.
I finally had my pool day! All I wanted since the beginning of summer (and end of Spring) was to enjoy being at the pool at least once. My neighbor has a pool that he has graciously let us swim in since I was little. Yesterday we finally went over for the entire day and enjoyed being poolside. My niece was over for most of the day, then my sister and brother-in-law joined us later in the afternoon. It was my brother-in-law’s 40th birthday, so we celebrated by taking a dip in the pool. I ordered a few swimsuits but none of them seemed to fit right. I ended up wearing one of my mom’s old swimsuits, which still wasn’t ideal but was fine for a day at my neighbor’s pool. I am excited to get back to the city where all of my summer clothes and swimsuits are waiting for me to wear. I doubt I will be going to the pool again this summer, but at least I can layout at the park and get a tan.
I am not sure what else I will be doing this weekend. It is supposed to rain in NYC, so it looks like I will be hanging out in my apartment watching movies and reading. I want to, and I am hoping to, walk around the city to see what has changed and what life is like with the virus. Since businesses and restaurants are slowly open, I assume there is more foot traffic around town than there was when the virus first hit. Reminder to wear your mask!!
Have a wonderful weekend xo
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