Good news, bad news

Hello again!!

I have received one of my bags: completely demolished. What began as a regular piece of luggage, with rolling and handle capabilities, is now a broken down, poor little bag. It no longer has wheels, they were sacraficed in the journey. The handle had been ripped off, and taped to the front with duct tape. There was a huge rip in the front, which was also patched. But, when it arrived, I saw none of that. I saw simply one half of my precious luggage; and I was happy. Unhappy, however, to find out that my other bag, part of my heart, my backpack, was still somewhere, floating in a liminal land. It needs its home, it needs me there to love it. I'm sure it misses me. On the internevet, unfortunately, it still says: tracing; check back later. Not a good sign. Maybe if we all will it back to me, it will show up!!

Last night, I had a wonderful time! In the staff lounge, I saw a sign advertising volleyball with the word 'loisir' beside it, which means leisure. Some fun, not serious volleyball. I asked about it, and before I knew it two other professors had arranged a pick up for me and I was going to be playing at eight o'clock. In my chacos, of course, because my running shoes are also in my backpack. (I don't want to talk about it). I borrowed a pair of shoes from Joel, a man, because my feet are apparently huge. Okay, I knew they were huge. But Nhamid brought me a pair of 7.5s. I mean, come on. Anyway, I felt like I was having a growth spurt or something, tripping over my feet a bit. But it worked out. And they thought I was apparently good enough to play on their team that travels!! They got third out of fifteen teams last year, so it could be really fun.

And today, I hope for my bag. I have a meeting with Carolin today to hopefully get a bike and go to the super marché.

Love,
Sam

Is this too boring to post? Likely. But I don't have any French lovers or exotic European trips to write about. You just wait though, it's going to get so juicy I'll have to censor it*

*That's probably an exaggeration.