Hey hey! Long time no see/ write. It’s been a while and soo much has happened. A whole continent! Whoa. The thing is, the longer I didn’t blog, the more stuff that happened, and the harder it was to put anything on paper. So, here’s me skipping all that stuff and hopefully sorta coming back to it later and just trying to tell you about life right now. Two weeks from stepping on American soil and falling asleep in my own bed, in my own room, by myself.
Finding Nemo is an awesome movie full of awesome “seafood” characters (many of which I’ve probably eaten these past couple of months), but the best character, in my opinion is Squirt the little rad turtle who prepares Nemo and his exit buddy Dory for their venture out of the East Australian Current. This year, I feel like was a big ole shove out of the current of life. A crazy, topsy turvy ride. However, now that I made it out of the current and lived this insane life for a year, I’m heading back for the current, and it appears, amazingly enough, that the current has just kept on moving along without me. Not only am I different, but my American life current didn’t just freeze and wait for me to hop back on. It kept flowing. Weird.
My team and I met this German traveler in Laos (oh yeah, we went to Laos, more on that craziness later) who when one of us asked about his plans on heading back to Germany, he started off on this long rant. I mean, at the time, we were all like who in the world is this guy? Just answer the question. Now, it’s still a pretty ridiculous situation to me, but I understand him. He went off about how he has a problem with that question because there is no going back. Germany isn’t the same as he left it and neither is he, and furthermore, he doesn’t ever want to go back; if he goes back to Germany, he wants to go forward to something. I mean, he wasn’t not pretentious, but he did make an interesting point. I get it now. There really isn’t a going back. I don’t know how to navigate entering into the current/America. I don’t know what to expect, and I know that so much is going to indeed be different. Aren’t we all?
So, this whole re-entry thing is exciting, overwhelming, and a little bit scary, and I definitely don’t think it’s going to be easy. However, if there’s one thing I’ve learned on the Race, it’s that hard isn’t bad, it’s just hard. Hard can be incredibly good and rewarding. So get ready America and hide all your sweet tea because I’m coming home. Squirt hopped back in the current all by himself, and if a little turtle can do it, welllllll hopefully I can too.
