New Adventures

Good evening all, or shall I say "Добар вечер," or perhaps "Mirenbrema"! As I write this post it is technically Thursday, which means that tomorrow I will be flying off to Washington D.C. for the pre-staging with our Peace Corps group, MAK17. Ladies and gentlemen, the day of reckoning is almost upon us..

As I sit in my bed restlessly typing this memoir, starry-eyed and wide awake, I am reminded of a great quote from one of my favorite stories. The quote comes, of course, from Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings:

       "I think I'm..... quite ready for another adventure."

To me, I think this quote holds very true for how I am feeling right now. After being with great friends and family in Ohio and Kentucky over the past few weeks, I think its time to set sail for another great journey. Mind you, this is one month to the day that I returned from Korea and Japan, and my brain is still trying to process all the things I have learned and experienced.

Yet here we are, on the eve of another great adventure, this time flying east across the Atlantic rather than west across the Pacific. Needless to say, it is with heavy heart that I must bid farewell to friends and family; but there is always the silver lining, and that will be the great next step to Macedonia. Soon the dawn will break on my final day here in Ohio, and then onward to what the future holds!

So, despite the amount of shit I will most likely receive for posting such an 'emo'-looking picture. (Is emo still a word people use to describe this? It is? Okay.) I feel that this picture is a (relatively) accurate representation of my rambling. Where one journey ends, another is bound to begin. Often our days pass by without much change, and we as a species avoid risks in life in order to make it safely to death. Why? Sometimes the changes are the risk, and sometimes the risks need to be changed so that we may truly feel alive.