I can´t believe how fast the summer has gone by. When I first came back to Louisville, I was excited about having 8 weeks at home. And now I´m down to less than 1. I´m ready to go back and get this last year of school over with, but this time at home with family has been wonderful. Figures - now that I´m finally adjusted to being back here, it´s time to leave again. It´s crazy when I think that out of the past 52 weeks, I´ve only seen my parents for 10. When I think about it in terms of those numbers, it´s hard! So here I am again, getting ready to start the packing process. As many times as I´ve done this and even though I´ve become a professional packer, it´s the one part I dread.
Airlines are now charging $70 for the second checked bag. Thankfully I bought my ticket before they changed the prices, so I only have to pay $50. But this is becoming ridiculous. Airline tickets are going up and from what I can tell, there is no shortage of flyers like the companies say. All of my flights are always booked solid. On my flight to Madrid, I´ll be sitting in row 24 or something like that. I normally sit in the teens, so this annoys me. With all the money I´ve been spending on tickets (three round-trips in the past year,) I could have had a new car with a low payment by now!
My grandmother told me she´s going to cry at the airport on Monday. I keep reminding her that this will be the fourth time I´ve left for Spain and she can´t keep doing it! But everything is just a part of my life now. From the tears at the airport, to being limited to seeing my parents 80% of the year on my computer screen, to dreading the packing of the suitcases, this is my life.
Tomorrow marks the one year date from when I left the first time. I started this journey a year ago amid lots of questions and whys from friends and family. Not once did I doubt my decision, because I was following my dreams, but also I was searching for myself. It hasn´t been easy for me - I wouldn´t suggest moving across the ocean to just anyone. But it´s been life changing. This journey has been such a blessing to me and I can´t wait to continue it. I´ll close with a quote from the book Eat, Pray, Love. The protagonist reminds me of somebody I know. I´ll let you all decide who that somebody is!
"If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."
Airlines are now charging $70 for the second checked bag. Thankfully I bought my ticket before they changed the prices, so I only have to pay $50. But this is becoming ridiculous. Airline tickets are going up and from what I can tell, there is no shortage of flyers like the companies say. All of my flights are always booked solid. On my flight to Madrid, I´ll be sitting in row 24 or something like that. I normally sit in the teens, so this annoys me. With all the money I´ve been spending on tickets (three round-trips in the past year,) I could have had a new car with a low payment by now!
My grandmother told me she´s going to cry at the airport on Monday. I keep reminding her that this will be the fourth time I´ve left for Spain and she can´t keep doing it! But everything is just a part of my life now. From the tears at the airport, to being limited to seeing my parents 80% of the year on my computer screen, to dreading the packing of the suitcases, this is my life.
Tomorrow marks the one year date from when I left the first time. I started this journey a year ago amid lots of questions and whys from friends and family. Not once did I doubt my decision, because I was following my dreams, but also I was searching for myself. It hasn´t been easy for me - I wouldn´t suggest moving across the ocean to just anyone. But it´s been life changing. This journey has been such a blessing to me and I can´t wait to continue it. I´ll close with a quote from the book Eat, Pray, Love. The protagonist reminds me of somebody I know. I´ll let you all decide who that somebody is!
"If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."
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