the winds long to play

Yesterday I walked home tugged here and there by strong winds and tried to remember a time when the winds had ever been this strong before in the south. Making my way across campus the winds were thrashing furiously and seemed to scratch and smack at the air around them. Tiles were skittering off roofs and branches were scattered across paths. Bewildered students (nothing to do with the weather, this is their usual state of mind) staggered down paths and sought shelter. I thought it was all so beautiful. The clouds were ominously grey overhead but somewhere beyond the trees a gap in the clouds allowed the sun through and everything was bathed in the slanting golden light. How could the world seem so silent and so noisy all at once? As if the world sat back and watched the trees fight it out with the winds. I was at turns hit by the wind from the side, pushed back so I had to fight for every step and, best of all, swept up from behind walking with the wind picking up my feet and whipping my scarf and hair around me. I remembered as a child waking up one morning, looking out my window and seeing a tree in the garden that had not been there the night before.

and forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair
Kahlil Gibran

A review of 2006 taken from my posts for each month.

January: I am back in reading and i once again have internet access!! woohoo!! procrastination here we come!! (that's the royal we of course).

February: It was my birthday last weekend, i am now 24.

March: I have a test in phonetics on monday and part of this is an oral in which i will get a one of nine possible cards on which will be printed 6 phonetic symbols and i will have to produce the sounds those symbols represent.

April: I have returned to university having survived my first placement, a coffee free lent and holidays with my family.

May: HURRAH!!! It's thursday evening i survived my second day of second placement, it's summer, I have a party to go to, and my brother Mark got the job he was being interviewed for today!!
One Blond's Journey to Brugge
The exams are over for the year and i survived.
(i felt all these posts should be mentioned for May).

June: A little sea-bathing would set me up forever!
Yesterday some of us went on a road trip to Brighton.

July: I can't sleep tonight so I have decided to blog about leaving Sibly.

August: (no posts)
September: (no posts)

October: The Return of the SLT Student

November: I am locked in my house.

December: Curiosity killed the cat...
The future of speech and language therapyAs i sat in the living room last night, trying to get some reading done, i became aware of a noise as if people were jumping up and down on the floor somewhere above me.