5/7/10 -7/7/10 So here I am, sitting in the bustling Newark Airport awaiting to board the first of three airplanes which will cart me off to my new home for the next five months. It’s almost funny, but I truly feel like this is the first time in the approaching weeks, days, hours to my departure that I’ve actually allowed myself to sit down and relax. Yes, of all the times it’s the two hours before I leave, surrounded by hundreds of people from around the entire world all readying themselves with last-minute drinks, bites, and bathroom visits. I know what’s about to happen, yet for some reason (and I kept telling everyone this prior to my goodbyes) I do not feel the least bit worried or anxious or sad or cowardly. I think when it
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