self-centeredness

our class president just sent out an email from a friend of mine who is from louisiana, letting us know that he and his family evacuated and are all ok to the best of his knowledge.

in all the time since the storm, i've been reading stories about people evacuating, wondering how it's possible to lose absolutely everything in an entire city, wondering if life there will ever be back to normal, and honestly, wondering if we'll hear about it when it is. i mean, really, after the reconstruction of the cities begin, we may continue to hear snippets, but the people who lived through it will deal with it for a very very long time.

so i've been wondering all these thoughts... and never did it enter my mind that i actually knew anyone that would be affected beyond the rising price of a gallon.

i feel so bad.

beyond that, there's another girl in my class who was mentioned in the email. from what i can tell, nobody has heard from her as of yet. (we start rotations on tuesday, and she hasn't moved into her apt in ohio yet.) i hope she's ok.