Updates on Life

Since Amsterdam I have:

Visited the South of France - Avignon, Arles, Marseille and Cassis.
Tried couch surfing for the first time in Avignon and had a blast.
Saw my first corrida (they didn't kill the bull) in Arles.
Hiked the Calanques of Cassis in Crocs. (alliteration...!)
Done so little school its too sad to be funny.
Had my first surprise birthday party (Thank you C, R and the MtA kids <3).
Had my first drunken karaoke surprise party (Thanks to Les MISS).
Visited family I hadn't seen for 14 years, and still felt like I was at home.
Played rugby in Belgium and partied in Brussels.

Man I should do more blogs like this. I've covered about 6 hours worth of blogging ;)

I'm Going to Miss the Skyline

I haven't written in ages. Now I kind of understand why people complain about their blogs, because you get this nagging little sense of guilt that you should be filling it for all the invisible web surfers that probably don't even read it and thus add more unnecessary stress to your life.

I just finished reading Kellen's blog and it made me want to write in mine. Funny how its always through reading other people's writing that the urge to write comes back to me. Must remember.

Today's my last day in Strasbourg. Tomorrow morning I catch the 06:45 train out to Paris to join my family for travels. I feel like the past two weeks of my life have been the conclusion to some kind of cheesy novel or maybe a sitcom, where everyone reflects about how far they've come in the last year.

I read over a bunch of letters my friends had written to me at the beginning of the year for my plane ride, all of them encouraging, telling me not to be sad that I was leaving, that it was such an amazing opportunity. I laughed a little while reading my own frailty between the lines - and I wonder if I'm at all the same person that stepped on that plane last September? I've changed so many of my perspectives on life.

The rush of words have stopped in my head, and unfortunately everything I try to write keeps getting muddled as I type it out, so I'm afraid that's all for today. Kind of sad, I missed writing in this thing.

Soon, soon, invisible web surfers, I promise.