Hi everyone!
My life as of late has been the most hectic. I mean, that’s
not unusual in the life of Sarah Taylor. I’ve been the busiest person I know
even before I could walk. I guess that’s what I get coming from a family of
people who love to travel. But, there have been some rather, well, I guess they
would be significant changes in my life as of late.
For starters, I am now a high school graduate!
Happy days!
It has only hit me a couple of times that I’m going to be
completely shifting my life around a lot in the next few months. So far after
graduation life has continued on quite normally, if not less exciting than
normal, with what I have to work every day and all that goodness. But I haven’t
forgotten that I am going to die at the end of this year to what I’m still
hoping is going to be a zombie apocalypse. So I have been cleaning the pool I
work at thanking the divines for every single disgusting dead spider I have to
sweep out of my pool cleaner.
Mostly so far I have decided I am going to greatly miss my
few good friends that I have made over my years in high school. I probably
couldn’t have maintained even small shreads of sanity without them.
In reference to college, I received my school schedule the
other day. It looks pretty aligned with the kind of thing I would be expecting
to be doing in my major (marine biology); chemistry and biology and that sort
of thing. But I also got put into Precalculus, even when I’ve already taken a high
school calculus course. Someone help me. It’s going to be a really unfortunate
semester. But only that part. I’m hoping the rest will be something worth
remembering. I’m honestly not very nervous about college, which many may find
surprising. I just really want it to happen already.
So now, in the midst of my work and video game heavy summer,
I am sitting currently on the couch in my family’s rented-for-a-week summer
home in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. More specifically, we are staying on
Corolla Beach ( which is apparently pronounced “cuh-rah-lah”). So far this has
been exactly what I want in a vacation. I did aforemention that I am going into
the field of marine biology, and living in landlocked Pennsylvania gives me a
great depravity of the beautiful natural wonder we call the ocean. If I could
stay all day and night down by the big blue I would.
My days have been the perfect combination of lazy-ness and
moving around a bit. My family has been running around doing this and that,
tourism things and such, but I’ve only joined in a couple ventures. Mostly just
hanging around the beach boogie boarding, longboarding around the neighborhood,
playing Frisbee, sleeping, that’s been my days thus far with a few other things thrown in. Oh, and sitting in
the hot tub. How can one forget that. On this particular day I did a more
touristy thing: we went and visited the Kitty Hawk memorial, where the Wright
brothers first invented and flew their airplane. I probably would’ve been more interested
if I hadn’t been half asleep, as I’d gone boogie boarding for four hours the
previous day and hadn’t slept well. It was pretty cool though. The best part of
my day was driving along the beach looking for wild horses (which we didn’t get
to see, sad face) and feeding very hungry and very friendly wild turtles. We fed
them pancakes, right from our hands. They enjoyed it well enough. They didn’t
let us pet them though.
I’ve been to better beaches, but Outer Banks is not so bad. It’s
pretty around here. I’ve always liked beach scenery more than other views. Dunes
and waves and muggy, salty air just appeals to me. I was surprised to find how
small the beach was, though, with all the popularity is has. It took me a couple
days to adjust to. I’m not a huge fan of overdeveloped, suburban looking areas,
especially when they are more tourist-y looking places. I would much prefer
something closer to Chincoteague beach, which is much less developed. Maybe that’s
the ocean conservationist in me. Or just personal preference. I don’t know.
But it’s been fun.
How is your summer going? Any interesting adventures?
Sarah.
