Last week I drove up to New York for a visit. I met up with:
- A lot of former students and got to see how the liberated American lifestyle was treating them. (Some took to it more kindly than others.)
- More than half of the TA’s from this past year! Hollin, Jeff, Tony, Noreen, Zack, Aleks. It was so good to see them all again. Seeing them in their natural American habitat shook me out of my dream-state a little.
- One of the TA’s for next year, Jon… good luck to him and to the whole new crew.
- Cristian, my Romanian friend from Cornell who just moved to NYC and will be stuck there for 5 years as he pursues his PhD.
There were even more people I wanted to see! But in the end I cut my trip early and came home to IL. I am now home figuring myself and my career plans out.
It has been an adventurous year for sure and I wouldn’t give up these memories for anything! But now it’s time to move on. Never sit still.
Before it was bittersweet, now it’s just sweet. Ma’a salaama!
