by Tyler Jones
Thammasat University, Thailand
The eve of my departure...
I'm actually a little late on the whole leaving thing. Thanks to the Winter Storm Crisis of 2014 my flight through Chicago got cancelled, so I am now leaving Knoxville tomorrow morning at 5:45. Then off to D.C., Japan, and Bangkok!
Since I'm arriving a day late, I will be missing the optional housing tour, but Thammasat has set me up with a "Thai Buddy." Her name is Pin and she has promised me that she'll take me anywhere I need to go, so thankfully she'll take me around the city and help me find an apartment.
With 12 hours and counting, I am feeling a multitude of drastically differing emotions. I'm excited. I'm nervous. I'm nauseous. I'm ecstatic. And I can't stop pacing the length of my house.
I have been in a really weird place for about 2 weeks now. I have been ready and packed for 2 weeks now, so I've had nothing to do but wait.
I've been in some sort of limbo.
And now that I really am on a countdown, it's even weirder! I am having a really hard time coming to terms with the fact that I'm leaving so many friends and family behind. The comfort of their presence is beginning to elude me and that's really frightening.
But I know it's all a part of the process and I'm trying to embrace it the best I can, but it's really hard.
Nothing left now, but to leave.
Best of luck to all my OVS people.
Allons-y!
Thammasat University, Thailand
The eve of my departure...
I'm actually a little late on the whole leaving thing. Thanks to the Winter Storm Crisis of 2014 my flight through Chicago got cancelled, so I am now leaving Knoxville tomorrow morning at 5:45. Then off to D.C., Japan, and Bangkok!
Since I'm arriving a day late, I will be missing the optional housing tour, but Thammasat has set me up with a "Thai Buddy." Her name is Pin and she has promised me that she'll take me anywhere I need to go, so thankfully she'll take me around the city and help me find an apartment.
With 12 hours and counting, I am feeling a multitude of drastically differing emotions. I'm excited. I'm nervous. I'm nauseous. I'm ecstatic. And I can't stop pacing the length of my house.
I have been in a really weird place for about 2 weeks now. I have been ready and packed for 2 weeks now, so I've had nothing to do but wait.
I've been in some sort of limbo.
And now that I really am on a countdown, it's even weirder! I am having a really hard time coming to terms with the fact that I'm leaving so many friends and family behind. The comfort of their presence is beginning to elude me and that's really frightening.
But I know it's all a part of the process and I'm trying to embrace it the best I can, but it's really hard.
Nothing left now, but to leave.
Best of luck to all my OVS people.
Allons-y!