New Adventure, New Blog

I embark for Cairo, Egypt in twelve days *internal scream*. I will be studying through AMIDEAST’s Egypt Learn and Serve Program from June 13^th through August 9^th.

After having kept a blog for my last international adventure I learned four main things:

1. Blogging is a nice way of keeping everyone informed at the same time instead of responding to multiple emails consisting of, “Hi! How are things going?”
2. Blogging is the best way of keeping a diary of your current state of mind. It is a nice tool to look back on and see what ridiculous thoughts you were having about all these new things.
3. People like reading blogs.
1.  People from back home like to see what sort of situations you are getting yourself into and to make sure you are actually going to come home and didn’t just fall off the face of the earth.
2.  People who have just met you read them to find out more about you and see what your first impressions of their home are. Every now and then they also use it as a tool for stalking you. *cough* Kathryn *cough*
3. People you have never met read them in preparation of their own adventures or to see what another walk of life looks like (okay, I actually learned this by stalking OTHER people’s blogs).
4. Blogging is REALLY hard to keep up with, especially when you are travelling, getting over culture shock and jetlag, and way more concerned about living in it instead of writing it down.

Keeping all this in mind, I created this blog for my Egypt trip. I am not making any promises of blogging such and such times a week because that turned out to be a very stupid idea. However, I do promise to record the big stories, the quirky stories, and the general goings on which I promise to post at some point in the future.

So, if you are reading this to keep up with me while I am gone, thanks for joining me on this ride. If you are reading this because you just met me, nice to meet you and feel free to stalk away. If you are reading this because I am studying abroad, feel free to ask any questions and I will do my best to answer them. If you stumble across this in 2018, feel free to laugh at how the world has changed in the last five years.  If you are reading this in 3013 and are trying to figure out what life was like a thousand years ago, well, this is probably a very poor resource.

Links:

Click here for more information about the program I am studying with.

Click here to read my first travel blog from my semester in Uganda.