Lindsey On The Loose

Hello there! Happy summer! Well, according to the calendar it's summer. England hasn't received the memo though. Most days it doesn't get past 72 degrees here (Fahrenheit. Still not so good at Celsius. I'm sorry), and it's been very rainy. The only good thing about the rain now though is there have been quite a few thunderstorms which makes me very happy, but also a little homesick. However, all the rain means it's super humid and green here, both of which this Colorado girl isn't very used to, but is enjoying (even if it does make my hair harder to style). Flowers on campus Speaking of England, or rather the whole of the UK... Brexit happened. I'm not going to talk about it much, I'm just going to say how shocked I am that it still happened and that I am extremely sad and worried for the future of the UK. I've lived here for nine months, and this country has without a doubt become my home. I love it here and I love the people, and I just...

I'm not going to broadcast that I wrote this. If you find it, that's great. This is a public blog after all. However, I am mostly writing this post for me, because right now I am struggling with some stuff and writing usually helps me work through tough situations. Sunday morning, as everyone in the world knows by now, 49 people were killed in an Orlando nightclub. A few days before that, singer Christina Grimmie was murdered at a signing after her show in Florida. And every day so many people are killed in the middle east. Those we don't always hear about, but it still happens. I cannot even begin to express the grief I feel while reading these stories and how helpless I feel reading about them from thousands of miles away. All I want to do is be with the people I love most in this world, most of which reside in Colorado. I want to hug them, tell them in person how much I love them and appreciate all the support they've always provided. I want to hunker down and wa...