Starlight

Earlier tonight my host dad regaled the family with his unexpectedly great ability to play the recorder. Turning out various Christmas tunes and songs I recognized from my own days wielding the recorder, he gleefully attempted to teach his youngest sons some of the tunes.

The walks have come back. I feel like I lost the habbit of walking a lot through the streets during the crazy month that was October. When Skyping with my parents, I honestly could not tell them what I'd spent the week doing. I honestly couldn't remember.

But now I've got more time on my hands. I've finished the two final essays that I didn't actually have to write, and my final classes are held tomorrow. Now, after tutoring my host brothers, I don my coat and step out the door, intent on wandering the lit up streets for at least an hour. And over these walks I've taken to looking up at the stars a bit. And I've taken to reciting that little childhood rhyme. You know the one.

Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
Wish I may wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight

Why? I donno. It's cute? It makes me look up at the universe and realize how small a part of it I am? It reminds me that my family can see the same stars back home? It's a sort of meditation on where I am? It's a way to remember to look at my surroundings and remember that I have spent so much time here? 

I donno. 

But I enjoy it. 

And do I make a wish at the end of the rhyme? You bet.