I Still Love America
Halloween
This week was probably the first week since I’ve been in St. Andrews that I realized I missed America. Going to school in Massachusetts, I think I tend to take for granted some pretty basic stuff that I don’t have here in Scotland. Although I can follow sports online, it’s not the same as on live TV. Although the Red Sox tanked it in the playoffs, it would have actually been nice to watch the games. Not to mention, I’m probably going to miss the entirety of the both the Patriots and the Celtics seasons. Although Skype has proved invaluable for keeping in touch with my friends from Holy Cross, it’s still not the same as actually hanging out with them. And of course, I miss my family. I talk to them more than anyone else, but I easily miss them the most.
But as I’m sitting here writing this, I’m also opening my new backpack that I just bought for my trip to Barcelona and Rome next week. I mean, it’s pretty surreal – next week, I’m going to spend 8 days making my way around Spain and Italy. So as much as I miss home, the fact is that for one year, I can sacrifice the sports and the time with my friends back at Holy Cross.
The Eden Course at St. Andrews
And over the course of this year, I will probably do more traveling than most people will do in a lifetime. I’ve also realized that semi-boring weeks where I don’t really do anything interesting are going to happen, and it’s okay, because the week after, I c
I'm a 23 year old college grad, and during my junior year abroad in Scotland, I came to the realization that it's hard to know what you want to do in this world if you've never seen it. With that in mind, I decided to study abroad again during the 2011-12 academic year, this time in Beijing, China. Read more 