Home. Well, not even specifically my home, but A home…the idea is so foreign to me after 7 months out here. For the last four or so days, I’ve been crashing at the house of one of my old Bryn Mawr classmates and it suddenly struck me that as much as I love living abroad, a little bit of my wanderlust is actually fading away. …Then again, I’m getting ridiculously psyched for Brazil, too! Actually, I think the issue is probably that NZ is a really easy place to get around. It’s almost too easy to settle in. I’s beautiful and there’s a lot to do, but lacks the excitement that makes traveling so unique and fun. though, if there’s one thing I’ve really loved about the lifestyle of most of the people I’ve met here is that people really enjoy what spare time they have– they go out and really do things outside– kayaking, biking, swimming, tramping, surfing. This has to be one of the fittest countries in the world! Hopefully, I’ll be able to keep a bit of that mentality into my life next year…I’m definitely wary of going back to being swamped with work for most of my days…
In any case, I’m on the move again…heading to Christchurch to do some observations in the ED there. I’ve been kind of low key these last few days, but at least I’ve been getting a lot of work done….and I’ve had time for symphonies in the park and barbeques, so life is good :). Hopefully, I’ll find something fun to do in Christchurch along with my research…. I put some new pics up around the site…search around ;-).
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