Full Moon

Being just finished with the Library 101 assignment (I really can't get how it was supposed to take only 45 minutes!), I finally feel relieved... Oh, wait a minute! - I'm leaving for Davidson in two weeks but this doesn't seem to have "sunk in" yet. I feel totally unprepared, with everyone around me (and by "around me" I mean in our -beloved - facebook group and in our - even more beloved - Meow! team) talking about preparations, packing, books and dorm-shopping, while I only know, like, which clothes I'm taking with me?! Seems that, enjoying my last weeks in my country, recovering from two years of IB and finally having nothing to do but take driving lessons (the minimum driving age here is 18), has gotten me almost completely out of the "packing mood"... I'll hopefully slide back into it by the end of the weekend (I don't think this will be hard consdiering how exciting all this process is)!

Why I titled this "Full Moon", you ask? Well, apparently, yesterday was not only a night of full moon, but also a night of full moon in August! In some places of the world, this is called a "Red Moon" and it is truly an amazing sight. Luckily, I got to see it from an equally amazing point of view, as well: my father, my cousin and I joined the local hiking club in an excursion, in which we would ascend up to the a peak from which we would see the moon rising. The route was not hard and, as we ascended, we also got to enjoy the beautiful view before sunset (see the picture above)...

As the time passed and we reached the top to eat some do-it-yourself dinner and enjoy the "red moon", I took a few moments to fully grasp the sight of it. I was thinking that I am going to miss the mountains and the sea of my country but, most of all, I was contemplating about how, however far away North Carolina is from my home, I would be able to see the same moon from there that I was seeing that night. "Okay, stop being so poetic, Natalia, people see the Sun every day, it's no big deal!"... Well, it is, in a way; when you are away from some place or someone, the moon is so far away that you can always look up knowing that you see it essentially from the same point of view as they do. It might once again be my abstract and romantic way of thinking, but I think of this as some kind of communication with any person in the world you need to connect with.

So, I was very happy to find out that, in this special year, there are two full-moon nights in August; the next one is on the 31st, our first Friday of classes at Davidson. By that time, all of us 2016'ers will probably be on campus, surrounded by many new people, terrified and simultaneously excited as hell. I don't know if my excitement will keep me from caring about seeing one more red moon instead of doing whatever college students are supposed to do on Friday nights... but in case that it doesn't, I'd be curious to see how the orb of the night will look from the other side of the ocean...!

(This doesn't really look red, it's because this picture was taken after it had risen)
More pictures from our walk can be found on  http://pezopories.blogspot.gr/2012/08/blog-post_2.html... It's in Greek, but the pictures matter the most! :)