Catching up for the summer

What a summer so far!!!
I am sorry to you all for not keeping up with this, i know i haven't written in a while but ... well i've been traveling a lot!
So you probably realize I graduated a month ago... and that was awesome. What an amazing feeling! i still can't get over the fact that I'm not a highschooler any more, and now when i see some highschoolers i'm like "they're so young! was I that young?!" It's a weird feeling. This week I'm doing drivers ed classes, from 8am-3pm every day and I feel like the oldest in the class. I pretty much am except for this one girl who graduated from a school in Senegal! So i connected to her today and was invited to eat lunch with her and a bunch of other ppl in drivers ed. It was nice to not have to eat alone today. I felt welcomed;-) We took a "mid-term" exam today in class and i got an 88! It was easier than I expected so I'm not sure why i only got an 88 but it's driving school... i really don't care! And this was just a practice for the real thing which is on Friday. But let me back up. I am in Massachusetts right now, in Magnolia/Manchester/Beverly/Gloucester area, if anyone knows where ANY of those towns are! North Shore area of Mass. It's beautiful and I'm at my Grandparents house which overlooks the ocean. I am just some 100 feet away from the rocky shore! And the window i'm looking out of right now is looking at the stormy water. It's so windy today, and pretty cold!
My great aunt lives about 15 minutes down the road, about the same distance from here to my college! Yes, Gordon is where i'll be starting August 23 when I move in. I'm so stoked to start school and i've made some friends and met some other people who go there or are about to start going there now after this La Vida trip i went on last week.
I got out of Congo June 9, exactly a month ago (hard to believe!), and spent a night with my big brother Walter in NYC. Then I flew to Phoenix, AZ the next day, spent a week with a good family friend who got me a little prepared for college -- we went shopping and she taught me some really good things --that was a fun week! Next i flew to San Luis Obispo, CA and stayed a week there and in Bako with good friends from Congo!! It's funny when I tell that to people because when they hear i went to CA they all think i went to see old friends from my childhood... but um, no ... i didn't! I went to the beach a lot, went to my friend's ranch, just had an amazing week which was one of the most fun times i've had in a long time!!! From there I flew to CT, where my aunt lives. I spent the night at her house, got re-aquainted with my young cousins and my kitty Misty who lives with them, and did VBS the next morning with them. I just helped in odd ways and enjoyed myself. Made me realize I like hanging out with little kids now more than i thought! And for some reason, those kids liked me! This one little boy especially .... he didn't wanna be with his leader, he wanted me. haha! i had to laugh. That same afternoon when VBS was over i got on a train and went to Boston, found a cab and went to another train station that took me to Manchester, the area where my mom was. She picked me up and I repacked for La Vida. The next morning my mom dropped me off at the Rec center on Gordon campus which is really nice and pretty brand new... there were all these people standing around 3 vans/buses so i stood there and we finally left after taking role. It was a 6hour trip but it became 8 hours because of all the stops we made. I got on the bus and the driver, Steve, welcomed me and i said people could call me Eva, but he was like "Why? Evangeline's a great name!"
So I made my way to the middle of the bus and sat down.

To be continued!