My Huckleberry Friend

Since I was seventeen I have been positively obsessed with the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s, I can remember the first time I watched it, curled up on my parents couch in the middle of the night. I watched it three times in a row. Six years later, I still go back to that movie, back to Tiffany’s anytime I’m caught having the “mean reds” or just needing a break from life. There’s been times when I’ve watched the movie dozens of times a week, several times in a row for months on end, I watch it when I’m homesick or missing someone, but mostly when I’ve been thinking too much.
The last time I saw my best friend she picked me up from the airport after a tearful goodbye and greeted me with bloody Mary’s and a copy of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, she knew it was exactly what I needed. We laid there on the couch with a pitcher of bloody Mary’s and settled in for the afternoon, she fell asleep bored out of her mind after the first viewing, but suffered through like a true friend, I felt like I was seventeen again, I felt at home. The next morning we went to breakfast at Tiffany & Co. It was one of the best gifts I have ever received. She gave me a memory that will last a lifetime; I will never forget my first breakfast at Tiffany’s.


“Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend My huckleberry friend, Moon River, and me.”
-Moon River
Cross my heart and kiss my elbow,
Love and Peace

The Back of My Hand

Yesterday was a truly amazing day. I lead my first group exercise class here at the clinic; I had 9 ladies between the ages of 36-51, no exercise equipment, and an iPod. We had a great time, before we started they only wanted to have class once a week but this morning when I got to work they were asking if we can do it again this afternoon. I never thought my first project would be leading an aerobics class with a bunch of nurses in their uniforms singing Katy Perry while doing chair exercises.
I’ve always felt most at home on the pool deck and that’s exactly where I’ll be in two weeks we’re starting a new learn to swim program here in New Amsterdam. Two days a week another volunteer and I will teach two classes at a privately owned swimming pool. I can’t wait to start teaching lessons again and start an instructor training program, I’m beyond excited.

In the middle of a swim lessons meeting last night I got a text from one of my best friends, Mallory, telling me she is 7 ½ weeks pregnant and due the day after my birthday, January 12. She had just heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time and all I could think about is all the heartbeats I hear at work on antenatal day and how incredible it is that Mallory is hearing her baby’s heartbeat.


Mallory, I will think of you every time I hear a baby’s heartbeat. I’m so happy for you, you’re going to be an amazing mother and I can’t wait to meet your baby!
I believe that everything happens for a reason and I am exactly where I’m supposed to be, helping these ladies here at the clinic and sharing the one thing I know like the back of my hand, swimming.
Cross my heart and kiss my elbow,
Love and Peace