But we went to the Memorial of the Murdered Jews of Europe, The Jewish Museum (with special exhibits on the Holocaust), and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Doner Kebabs are the best food on this good earth. My extended family can't sit through a musical.Ĥ. Back massages and house cleaning pay very well.ģ. Hoky-Poky and Cha-Cha at the S-bahn Station is totally socially acceptable behavior.Ģ. Here are a few things I learned along the way:ġ. I wish I could recount each and every story that has taken place in the past four weeks, but you'll have to be satisfied with the highlights. I was not anticipating the amount of relief I experienced upon arriving back in my dorm late on Saturday night after traveling to five different countries and nine different cities (not to mention two different continents!). It feels good to be a productive citizen (student) again, instead of leech on humanity (tourist).
However, I am almost enjoying the relative structure of my days that contrast sharply with my month-long galavant across Europe. Kind of a horrible antithesis to instant gratification. I am now paying the price for not completing all of my assignments during the semester.
By coasting I mean viciously thrashing against the massive wall of water that is my academic workload. I am now coasting through my last month here in London. Strange title right? I'll get to that later. London, but more importantly, I love what you have begun in me. My heart and reverberates in my life each and every day. To keep a blog the effects of my study abroad semester resonates in No longer get to see many dear friends, and no longer feel the need To, no longer have to wear six pairs of socks to keep my feet fromįreezing, no longer get to visit other countries over long weekends, See which way to look at an intersection, no longer get to go to pubsĪll the time, no longer get to sit in peace and quiet whenever I want Ride the 265 to ASDA, no longer have to look down at the ground to Trips to the grocery store with great friends? Though I no longer The thrill of simple things like good conversation over hot tea and Meaningful moments and adventures no matter how small? Am I enjoying Humanity? Am I living each day with whimsy and excitement, embracing Wisdom and knowledge and learning to cope with the madness that is Watching the thread of my patchwork coat unravel? Am I storing up Am I still creating new pockets to my life, or just But more than anything itĪcts as a place to pull myself away from where I am now and see how IĪm measuring up. Remember it and enjoy it for what it was. Now I can put all of those times securely in a larger pocket, Lovely trips to now-familiar places in the city, and a hundred other Wonderful new friends, crazy travel stories, weird drunk people, My timeĪbroad was filled with all sorts of “pockets”: amazing classes, What I wanted it to be-why I was so often discontent.
Londonįorced me to think about my life back home and why it was not always Those thoughts were not limited to that place and time. Journal and capturing my thoughts on placid off-white sheets of Of rare sunny afternoons in Roehampton, sitting by the lake with my It took a lot of time toĪccept that fearing God means that all of my other fears become Should give you a hint as to my preference. Petrifying mercy, mystifying grace, alarming acceptance, radical Past horrors we can fear man and his judgement, hatred, disapproval,Īnd exclusion or we can fear God and His terrifying glory, See it, we can either fear ourselves and our own pain, mistakes, and How fear dictates almost every choice we, as humans, make. I had a conversation with a friend the other day about Me get a better idea of who I am, but more importantly, the person I To separate my pre-London self from my present self. Semester abroad shaped me in so many way that it is impossible for me Left London because everything I loved about it is still with me. Your life that you never really leave them. There are places that become so ingrained in See again and yet I feel like I have visited it a thousand times The drawers are stuffed with leg warmers and scarves and the cabinets I immediately think of my flat-my little world for five monthsĭecked with posters, programs, tickets, and bright lime green walls. So quick a fashion and still seem like a different lifetimeĪltogether (wibbly-wobbly and all that jazz). It seems unreal that so great a time can pass in Circumstances catapulted me into the UK for the high-flying adventure
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