A Note From Mom

Hello My Beautiful Little Jenna...

So, your dream finally DID come true! I'm so happy for you. I can hardly believe that you are all the way down there in South America...while I'm all the way up here in California. I don't know if I like having you so far out of reach...but, it's for a good cause, and this will be a good life experience for you. Remember why you are there...not to have 'fun in the sun'...(although a little fun is totally acceptable), but to learn, and to give of yourself...to help and to make new friends...maybe to learn a few more Spanish sentences too!

The house is already so quiet, so empty...so lifeless without you. The piano looks lonely...no one to make beautiful music on it's black and white keys. Your flute is sitting on your music stand in your bedroom...sad to know that it won't be touched for a whole month! The guitar...well, it has dust accumulating on the case. I gave Sushi some fresh water...but he wonders where YOU are. Your little flower garden looks a little droopy...they are missing you too! And me...well, after months and months of running you from one class to another all day long, week after glorious week...I'll be bored. No one to talk to, no one to eat lunch with, no one to go to town with (so I just won't go...), no one to go to the Market with...sniffle sniff...pretty sad, isn't it? Oh well...it's only one month. I'll just keep myself busy...that's always the best 'medicine' for loneliness.

I truly hope that you and Melissa have an INCREDIBLE time in Venezuela together. Enjoy each day. Keep a journal when you have time, take lots of pictures, and call me!! I will miss you like crazy...but oh how I will rejoice when you return home!

I LOVE YOU!

Always and forever...
Your Mother

Hugs and kisses....