Chs 7-15

I'm still reading Where the River Ends.  I was able to read for an hour on Thursday at school from 9:30-10:30 and then again for a little today from 1:20-2:00.  For the portion of the chapters that occur in Charleston after they first met, she thanks him by inviting him to a party at her parent's house.  They manage to slip out of the party and spend the night strolling through Charleston.  He then paints a portrait of her and she has the idea for him to paint a portrait of her nanny, who was brutally scared while fleeing to a refugee camp before she came to the US.  He manages do to a tremendous job on the painting and it moves Abby so much that she kisses him.  He is able to use that portrait to graduate from college.

For the chapters that occur on the river, the biggest event that happened was that as he was watching the fire while Abby slept one night, he felt they were being watched.  He managed to grab her medicine, the shot gun, and her and wade across the river to the other side.  Not long after, two men riffled through their campsite and either stole or burned everything there.  All that was left was the canoe.  the next day, he remembered there was a nudist colony not too much further down the river.  After they made it to that part of the river, he managed to strip down and blend in with the nudist colony in order to steal some more clothes for them and some soap.  After they bathed in the river and the rain Abby said they had checked off three of the ten items on her list of things to do.

I did not realize it until she said they had done three of the items that they didn't really say what the ten items were that she wanted to do.  Even though so much had happened to them since the start of the journey down the river and with her sickness all she wanted was a bit of normalcy in her life.  That's what she was seeking with the list.  Somehow she has managed to complete three things so I'm now more curious what the rest of the list is and if she'll be able to do all of it before the end of the trip and what I'm predicting is the end of her life.