#secondfirstimpressions

[kitapmagarasi]

✍🏻 İKİNCİ İLK İZLENİMLER ~ SALLY THORNE

🏘️ İkinci İlk İzlenimler YİNE müthiş eğlendiğim bir Sally Thorne kitabı oldu. Providence Huzur Villaları'ndayız. Burası zengin yaşlılar için huzurevi gibi bir yer. Sadece herkesin kendi villası var; dediğim gibi ZENGİN YAŞLILAR İÇİN. 💸Kitap Fiyatı: ₺21 (09/11/2021 - KitapYurdu)💸 🌻Kitap yorumunun devamı için başlığa tıklayın!

[booktineus]

Q: Do you keep track of quotes as you read? I never used to, but since I sell bookmarks now I am making an effort to tab quotes I like. Actually, I note a lot more than just quotes. I have a notebook that I update fill with notes on all sorts of imagery that appears in books. Those notes become the basis of all the imagery I scatter into my bookmarks as little Easter eggs of sorts. For example, all the flowers on this Second First Impressions “Tiny Universe” bookmark are flowers Teddy has tattooed on him to represent his sisters. //HASHTAGS// #SecondFirstImpressions #booktineusdesigns #notebook #bookishnotebook #readinghabits #bookquotes #booknerdigans #bookworm #auskiwibooksta #reader #readersofig #bibliophile #booklover https://www.instagram.com/p/CS6dv46hRgy/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gmoorewriter]

"Gotta catch them* all" [*books by @sallythorneauthor ]

[timeintogo]

Second First Impressions

Returning to Togo after a three-week vacation in Vermont was not easy. In fact, it was rather difficult.

I didn’t feel ready to get in the car to drive to catch my flight out of Montreal. I didn’t feel ready to board my flight from Heathrow to Accra. And yet, the closer I got to being back in Togo, the more I was just ready to dive back into my Peace Corps life.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I crossed the border and arrived a few short minutes later at the Peace Corps bureau in Lome.

I smelled that Lome smell, of exhaust and garbage and sand, with maybe a hint of the ocean. I felt dusty and dirty and gritty and like I needed a shower after ten minutes under the glaring sun. I tasted spicy piment and fried tofu, my first in over a month, as if for the first time. I sweated. And sweated. Was Togo always this humid? (Yes.)

I was able to savor so many first impressions of Togo, for a second time. It was like I had to remember how everything looked, smelled, felt and tasted again.

I had to remember what it felt like to be squeezed into the tiny back seat of a bush taxi with three other volunteers. I had to remember what it felt like to walk to the marche in Atakpame, saluering the women I passed in Ife and Ewe. I had to remember just how much I sweat under a burning sun. I had to remember just how good a bucket shower can feel. I had to remember just how much water I had to drink to avoid dehydration.

And after a few days of reacquainting myself with the sand and the sun, with squawking chickens outside my door and with my chamber pot, with my second first impressions – now I’m ready to begin again in Togo.