Browsing Memphis ... the few last days

I wrote this blogs a few months ago , but haven't publish it ...............

4th March 2011

Well, as most of you know, my time here in Memphis is coming to a close. In fact I have…. about 3 days left. Something like that. So… I’m walking around with my eyes wide open. Trying to remember every detail. Somebody asked me what my eyes are trying to memorise in the time that I have left. Here’s what I told her: ”I’ve thought a lot about your question… what are my eyes trying to memorise… And I keep going back to the drive on Poplar Road . Frankly, it’s not a beautiful place…. it’s one of the poorer State in America. It’s kind of like ipswich compare to Brisbane city ... But… that’s I think one of the things I’m going to remember: the restaurant, Pho Saigon ,the beautiful peoples in my life , the part where i got drunk and was carried on my cousin's back at one moment and the next moment down the gutter somewhere,… I’m also memorising long drives from Memphis to Chattanooga , ..Miami and back. Some days you can see them so clearly… surrounding the city (and whenever I do see them clearly, I start singing Psalm 125 “As round about Jerusalem, the mountains give defense, Jehovah is her people’s guard and lasting confidence”). Some days they are invisible, some days they peek out of wisps of fog. I’m also memorising the street as seen from the front of my cousin's place

I wrote a list of things I want to do before I leave. It has things on it like, “watch the sunset and catching up with Jasmine and Dustin all night” or “eat chicken salad and sandwich at Chattanooga , the most unusual chicken salad i ever seen and tasted in my whole entire life " makes us crack up laughing everytime i remember it .

and attend church with both my aunty and cousin Phuong...But I’ve realised that the things I’m going to miss most, are the “mundane” things that I do everyday. Like sitting with my relatives talking to them , playing hilarious card games.

It’s time to go – I’m sure i will be back to the States. But it’s sure gonna be hard to leave….