ONE MONTH TO GO!!!
One month from now I will be arriving in Budapest, Hungary on my way to Pecs. While I have been focusing on surviving this quarter as my foremost objective, now I am beginning to focus on everything that I need to get done before I leave for the summer.
While this is not the first time I will be traveling abroad, this is the first time that I will be living on my own in a foreign country. I will have to worry about doing laundry, cooking, etc. and cannot rely on my host family for assistance. This makes packing a little harder, but I know that whatever I forget, I can always purchase it over there. I have just been having a reoccurring nightmare that I am at the airport and I have forgotten my passport a couple times, which I hope does not come true.
Tonight is the last time the whole group traveling over on the program will be meeting. I absolutely love the group I will be working with; it seems like we are all the same type of personality. Some are students who have been on the program before and wanted to participate again. I’ll be able to use their experiences to my advantage in deciding what to pack and how to prepare, fortunately.
I have been making a list for the past week of things that I will need to pack, things that I still need to purchase here, and items that I can always just purchase over there. Surprisingly, I barely have anything on the list. Going away to college has taught me how to live on pretty much nothing, so I will be in good shape. I just have to find time to actually get everything together since I will only be home from college for about five days before I have to leave for Hungary.
We will see!
Have a most spectacular day!
It's official...Hungary, here I come!
I have just purchased my airfare to Budapest, Hungary for the Simonyi International Consulting Program this Summer. It was still questionable if I was going to go, because of finances and such, but now everything is official.
I will be leaving Columbus June 15, traveling to Budapest (via JFK) 5,000 miles away. This is the Tuesday after my final exam week; hopefully I will be able to schedule my exams early in the week so I can get home and pack. I will be spending six weeks in Pecs, Hungary with an internship at the Simonyi Center for Entrepreneurship, Applied Education, and Regional Development.
The Simonyi Center in Pecs, Hungary facilitates the transformation of Hungarian and Eastern European economies from a port-socialist to a western capitalist approach. The Simonyi Center offers business development and assistance services to entrepreneurs and organizations of Pecs and the surrounding regions in the fields of cultural arts, sciences, and innovation, as well as business.
Through classroom curriculum and real-world application, I will be working on consulting projects with businesses in an international environment, which is what I am most interested in doing for a career. This will be an incredible adventure and amazing experience that will surely impact my future.
I have just under two months until I leave. Each and every day my excitement increases and so does the realization that I need to begin getting ready. I guess I should start now...
Have a most spectacular day!
I will be leaving Columbus June 15, traveling to Budapest (via JFK) 5,000 miles away. This is the Tuesday after my final exam week; hopefully I will be able to schedule my exams early in the week so I can get home and pack. I will be spending six weeks in Pecs, Hungary with an internship at the Simonyi Center for Entrepreneurship, Applied Education, and Regional Development.
The Simonyi Center in Pecs, Hungary facilitates the transformation of Hungarian and Eastern European economies from a port-socialist to a western capitalist approach. The Simonyi Center offers business development and assistance services to entrepreneurs and organizations of Pecs and the surrounding regions in the fields of cultural arts, sciences, and innovation, as well as business.
Through classroom curriculum and real-world application, I will be working on consulting projects with businesses in an international environment, which is what I am most interested in doing for a career. This will be an incredible adventure and amazing experience that will surely impact my future.
I have just under two months until I leave. Each and every day my excitement increases and so does the realization that I need to begin getting ready. I guess I should start now...
Have a most spectacular day!
人間到る処青山有り
Wherever one goes, the heart will always be at home.
Said to me my last day of class at Tokai-Daigaku Fuzoku Daini Senior High School in Kumamoto, Japan during the summer of 2007, my homeroom teacher, Tachibana-sensei (On right), told me it was his favorite saying. The simple phrase helped me realize that I could actually never leave home, because home was wherever I went.
I felt lost at the beginning of my stay in Japan; I left my home and everything I knew behind, including my heart. I believed I could not make myself at home in a foreign land immediately, that home is the result of timeless memories, experiences, and relationships having to develop over time in that specific location before becoming a home.
Hearing this proverb, I came to understand that the opposite of what I thought was actually true. I could be at home anywhere, because experiences, memories, and relationships do not make the home, the home makes them. The only tool needed to create a home is heart. The heart allows us to experience new things, create memories, and begin relationships. Where I was waiting for outside forces to create home, I was not able to look inside myself to create home. Home is within each of us, within our hearts. Wherever you go, your heart will always be at home.
Said to me my last day of class at Tokai-Daigaku Fuzoku Daini Senior High School in Kumamoto, Japan during the summer of 2007, my homeroom teacher, Tachibana-sensei (On right), told me it was his favorite saying. The simple phrase helped me realize that I could actually never leave home, because home was wherever I went.I felt lost at the beginning of my stay in Japan; I left my home and everything I knew behind, including my heart. I believed I could not make myself at home in a foreign land immediately, that home is the result of timeless memories, experiences, and relationships having to develop over time in that specific location before becoming a home.
Hearing this proverb, I came to understand that the opposite of what I thought was actually true. I could be at home anywhere, because experiences, memories, and relationships do not make the home, the home makes them. The only tool needed to create a home is heart. The heart allows us to experience new things, create memories, and begin relationships. Where I was waiting for outside forces to create home, I was not able to look inside myself to create home. Home is within each of us, within our hearts. Wherever you go, your heart will always be at home.
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