Archive for December, 2005
Holiday season
As I prepare for the joyful days ahead with Christmas and wonderful time with my family, I can’t help but think back to the year that has passed. Wow how time has flown. Once you are on your own, living in a house, paying your own bills, time really catches up to you. What a […]
A bittersweet ending
In continuing with my established practice of writing retrospective blogs, I offer my final post after I have been back in the U.S. for three days. My final days in Scotland were a physical and emotional roller-coaster ride. Near the end of my second to last week in Edinburgh my health started to deteriorate. I […]
December 8 Update
I will report that I am starting to feel comfortable… and that I believe this to be both good and bad. The good is obvious – who doesn’t want to be comfortable? I have some friends, I am (finally!) able to communicate with some people in Slovak (and/or German), I feel the teachers at school […]
Reasons to be thankful
The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy. I completed two more essays, finished my classes, and celebrated Thanksgiving with a traditional American feast. Now, with less than two weeks left in Scotland, I’m starting to feel the pressure of needing to accomplish a million things in a very short period of time. Of course, […]