Around the World...and then some

New Worlds

It’s been a weird few weeks. Exactly two weeks and four days ago, I was saying farewell to a town I knew – Moscow. But then in a matter of hours, I was home again. I was speaking, hearing and seeing English. Before I knew it, I was skiing with family in Colorado, and as soon as possible I was singing High School Musical at the top of my lungs with some of my favorite people in the world at Middlebury. And then tonight, just about three weeks after I had been standing on Red Square, in the shadow of the Kremlin, I found myself on the Place de la Concorde, with the Madeleine behind me, the Champs Elysees extending to my right, and the Eiffel Tower peeking over the tops of buildings in the distance.

Two weeks wasn’t long enough to be home. It wasn’t long enough to bathe in comfort and familiarity. However, as I look back over the past three weeks it makes me realize how much I really have done in the past 6 months, or year even. Eventually it'll all come together - I'll sort it all out, process it, realize what it all means - but for right now I can't help but marvel at simply how amazing it's all been, and at how far, literally and not so literally, I've come.

posted by Becky @ 1:19 PM