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The end of the semester has approached incredibly quickly, and the end of my first year at Earlham. It seems impossible to me that it has been so long since my first days and experiences on this campus.
I have been thinking hard about this trip and what it means to me. I'm not sure that I can possibly know what this trip means to me yet, or how much it will mean to me, but I am hoping to answer that question within the next two weeks or so.
I am preparing for all of my finals, papers, presentations, exams, and it is all so important, and yet, the most important part of this whole process is not my grade on a final, which I'm sure will all be just fine, but how much I have learned.
This trip is offering me yet another wonderful opportunity to experience something unkown and different, something that I doubt I can prepare for really in most ways. No matter how prepared I am going to Senegal, I will be completely unprepared, I am sure of it.
I still have the same doubts and fears and I expressed earlier, maybe even more acutely so. But I have come to the conclusion, if I hadn't before, that it honestly doesn't matter whether or not other people enjoy this or take advantage of this adventure the same way as I do. That is really and honestly, none of my business I think. However, I can't let other people get me down, I can't let other individual's ingorance make this trip mean less to me.
There are a few people I know I will be able to go to while I'm on this trip, so I'm glad to at least have some people who can help me create my comfort zone, and understand how I feel about this trip as something "fun" but academic at the same time, and the differences between a lot of the folks going on this trip.
I am going to be amazed, fasinated, intrigued, stunned, scared, humbled, dazzled, and so much more. I hope that this trip will teach me to appreciate those things that I have even more so, and to understand the disparities that exist in the world much better.
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