Tell Everybody I'm On My Way
Trip Start
Jan 20, 2008
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Trip End
May 20, 2008
Montpellier, France
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Turns out, I was almost right. A few minutes later I got the email that my flight had been cancelled, and I could take a flight the next day.
So I'll be staying another 24 hours. After 9 months.. another day wont hurt. Especially when I've got to pack all this up. And my friend Casey is coming (she gets here tomorrow!) to visit me and Mary, so now I'll have another day with those two before we all split up for summer. (And it wont be long before we're moving in together at Geneseo!)
I had an oral test on Tuesday, and I have my "Culture et Patromoine" final tomorrow
Where I've Been This Year
. Then I've got a big day of testing (6 hours!) Saturday, and a little test Monday and .. c'est fini. And I leave Thursday. A week from tomorrow. (Assuming nothing else changes of course.) Today we had a goodbye get together with the group from IML. It was nice to have all the SUNY kids together again. We haven't all been at IML together since probably the very first few days.. so it was nice to get back to the same place and reflect on whats happened between then and now. I read a quote awhile back that I wish I could find again. Something to the effect -- you have to go back to someplace you used to be, in order to measure how you've changed.
Well that will really be true in about a week. Back to where I used to be, to see how I've changed. To see what's changed. The house got new phones. What else will be different? Stores closed or opened, buildings built.. friends and family all a year older and perhaps wiser. What will they see that has changed in me? We've all got another year behind us now.. a years worth of expirences to catch up on. I'm looking forward to it.
The more places I go, the more people I meet. I never sit still for long. My friends are scattered across the globe now. Four years ago, my whole life was, more or less, on Long Island. Facebook tells me I have 890 friends. That sounds a little crazy. I cant imagine I actually keep in touch with 890 people. But those are people, I - at some point knew. It makes you wonder.
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"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." -W. Somerset Maugham
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby
