The Post: July 2012

Although this blog is not a book, I still have the restless need to give it an "ending." Yesterday I finally came home after 3 months of traveling between cities, states, and countries. A really good old friend stopped by for a little while to catch up last night. He's been reading my blog off and on throughout this whole thing and said I was lucky to have such a nice keepsake from my travels. While this was nice of him to say, the better my study abroad experience got, the harder it got for me to write about it. So much so that I was completely unable to write about the last week when I traveled from Edinburgh, Scotland to Dublin, Ireland and then Cork, Cobh, and Galway (also in Ireland). That week was in a word, beautiful. I could tell some stories here, but then this blog really would be a book.

The best experiences are the ones that are hardest to describe. And I'll admit, if I struggle to blab about something, that's pretty telling. All I can say is that I'm incredibly grateful for this life-changing experience. I'm especially grateful for the friends I made along the way. My main objective now, is to apply everything that I learned while away, and not leave it out of reach. It's great to run off and have crazy adventures and grow from them, but if you leave it far away then what's the point? I've made that mistake before.

So here I am, in my childhood bedroom, trying to write about stuff way too big for this room. So that's the next step. Getting out of this room. Finding a job, and a place of my own.

But I'll work on that more tomorrow- because today is the 4th of July, it's almost 100 degrees outside, and I have a pool party to go to!

Edinburgh, Scotland:

(The Elephant Cafe, where J.K. Rawling wrote Harry Potter)