friday, september 28th
usa
i am up at a weirdly early bizarre time in the morning, england is misty and still. sometimes the best plans are the ones that are thrown together at the last minute, long distance phone calls and a vintage suitcase, half empty.
today i am going to get on a plane and fly to america, to see josh and my chums and the country i missed so much. whoah. shall i rewind?
the plan formed in our heads as we talked on the phone yesterday, me and josh. it swam thru my mind all day. it culminated in me with a phone in one hand, with a virgin atlantic employer or employee speaking in my ear, saying to my ps, 'should i go?' both mum and dad didn't even look at me, and eventually mum said, 'whatever you think, sophie.'
the ps are so laid back, its freaky.
one time, gabi said to me, 'the biggest risk in life is to risk nothing'. sure, she probably saw it in some nike advert or got it in a cookie, but it made me stop and think. we were crying for home, stuck in the middle of a dark, scary jungle in southern india and that night we vowed to be the bravest girls the world had ever seen. we didn't do too badly.
and i am headed to nyc, the home of my love, in six hours time.
i am excited and terrified and oblivious to it all and unprepared and awake and aware and.
wish me luck. sophie is travelling again.
suds at