oh the places you will go

I've decided to keep on updating this blog throughout the year, though no one will read it...not that anyone does anyway. I really like the idea, and sometimes pen and paper don't suffice for what I am trying to say.

My classes this year are so vast! I'm taking a senior level class on Tolkien, a Hispanic life and culture class, International Economics, and Regional World Geography. It's weird, but they are all interconnected. We talked about regionalism in my Regional World Geography class and how it can often lead to separatism (regionalism is having pride in your region, separatism is regionalism gone bad...like you no longer want to be a part of your nation), and as I was doing reading for the spanish class, it talked about how the Andes caused regionalism which in turn led to conflict.
It's cool how terms will flow from class to class.
Also I learned that because the Andes are so high up, people who live there are often sterile.
I've excited about them, because I feel like I am learning about how the world works as a whole. It's so interesting! And all the places!
There are so many exciting and beautiful things in the world. I look back and wish that I had taken time to study abroad. It would have been a really great opportunity, one I won't really have again. But then I realize that I don't think I would have been ready. Previously I probably would have spent a good majority of the time missing Glen and my family, and wouldn't have gained anything from being over there. Or maybe it would have helped me mature faster.
One can never know.
But I want to travel. I want to go to Africa for a year as a Fulbright Scholar and learn. I want to go to South America. I want to walk the great wall of China. See the Berlin Wall in Germany.
Sometimes I think we forget how vast the world really is. And access to it is waiting at our finger tips.