Epilogue

So what's the conclusion? What have I learned? How has this summer affected my life? Ugh, now did that sound cliché.
Well, let's try again, shall we?
I'll compare this summer to pervious ones:
Summer of 1996; me, my family and Sunni bicycled trough Denmark. Two weeks of complete suffering. Later I spent near six weeks at Sunni's cabin and it rained the whole time. Score: 6/10
Summer of 1997; I watched TV and spent three weeks preparing my Christmas-homepage. Score: 2/10
Summer of 1998; Short trip trough Denmark and Sweden with my aunt, uncle, cousin and her boy-friend. Watched a lot of TV. Score: 4/10

I didn't really have such a horrible time, as a matter of fact I quite enjoyed this summer. It's a summer I'll remember--it's hard to forget when you have 19 pages of written testimony--but also because I have actually done memorable things.
I have had my first face-to-face encounter with an ostrich. I have watched the last solar-eclipse of the millennium. I have bonded with a tale-less cat. I have skinny-dipped in a public place. I have been the assistant fish-feeder on a fish-farm. I have howled against the full-moon, knee-deep in fog. I have written a 19 pages tightly typed diary. I have consumed 25 cups of tea, 50 cups less than normal. I have got a rather nice tan. I have got sunburned. I have been fishing. I have swatted flies. And I have spent three weeks with my best friend in the world.
I've realised that on certain points Sunni and I are so alike that we sometimes finish each other's sentences. While we still have widely different views on points like; evolution, web-based email, hermetic pineapple, mammoths, special edition Star Wars movies, Lord of the Rings and tea. We are better at planning things than we are at completing them, but then planning is half the fun. And we generally dislike the same things and people.
Looking back now I wouldn't have changed a thing--except maybe brought some more tea.

And what's the conclusion? Well--I have a very good friend in Sunni. And I'm very happy to have her as my friend; even though I don't always express it the way I should. She's a great friend and I hope she knows it.

Thank you--Sunni--for being a true friend.
And thank you--whoever you are--for reading this.