Moving On

Hey yo. It's 1:20 am and I was reading up on my sister's blog and figured I might as well post something since it's been a while.

Two weeks ago I found out I was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship award for the academic year 2009-2010. The news came as a big surprise to me since word arrived much earlier than I expected it too. Leading up to the day I found out I've had doubts of whether I would even accept if I got it. I was struggling with whether I wanted to go half way across the world again for a longer period of time and mostly by myself or go back to New York and see what happens. However, when it became a reality that I actually got it, everything changed. I've been much more excited about the whole thing and think it could really be an incredible experience.

I'm graduating soon (inchallah) and that is really exciting. Especially now that I have something concrete to look forward to.

Will and I will be making another trek across the country after the big day (graduation). We are thinking of taking the 10 down south stopping in New Orleans and Charleston and then up to El's. I am of course concerned however about the race factor of the south....I just don't know how we, as an interracial couple, will be received in some parts of the country and it makes me concerned about our sleeping situations along the way. In August we camped everywhere except when we stayed with people in Chicago, Seattle, and San Francisco. I don't know how comefortable i'll be doing the same this time around. Also the other thing that might keep us from going S is apparently late May/June is tornado season.

Either way we are going, I'll let you know what we decide to do.

More to come later...