Thoughts On the Road to Amsterdam

Is it weird that I love being in a place where I can't read the signs? If I was driving, it would probably stress me out, but I'm not, so I love it. It's so...not boring. To struggle through language barriers can be difficult and awkward, but it's always interesting and enlightening (if not about the meaning of the words, then about the culture or the language itself). It makes the world seem both bigger and smaller - bigger than America (which can feel like the whole world sometimes) and smaller than all the mysteriously foreign places beyond. Because they're not foreign anymore; they are reality, and I am the foreign one.

Also, I just passed the PlayMobile headquarters. I cannot stress to you how much I freaking love PlayMobile. :D

On a completely unrelated note, I want to live in an old old row house in a European city, with houses squishing up against it on either side and a little tiny paved area in front with a little bench and a gate and steps up to the door. I want it to be three stories tall and very narrow and a little bit droopy with a stepped roof, but also somehow have a garden up there. I don't want a backyard and I don't care if the house is small and creaky and looks out onto the traffic instead of on a quiet suburban street. But there should be a park down the street and a metro station nearby, and fresh produce in small groceries on the corners. And I want a dog named Bijou and a cat named Little Wing and a library and a silly little car like a vintage Mini or a Fiat or a VW Thing. Yep. That would be great. :)

Something a little bit like this:

Starting Out

Shortly I will be graduating, and I thought I would start this blog to 1) get back into blogging, 2) keep in touch with my friends and family, and 3) document my college experience. Hopefully this will be a success.

This is what my life has looked like for the past four years:

Enjoy!

PS - I thought I would take a moment to explain the title of this blog. First of all, I chose it in like five seconds, so it's not all that meaningful. But basically, I am starting this because all of us are leaving, going our separate ways, and it's important to stay in touch. Also, it is because of all of us (you know who you are) that I am the person I have become in high school, that I have done the things I've done, and, ultimately, that I have planned the things I have planned for myself. And lastly, in a broader sense, we should be motivated to succeed as we start out in the world because of all of us--because of everyone, all seven billion of us. Because whatever we do, we should do for the good of the world.