MOLLY
Elementary Education &
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) |
MOLLY
Elementary Education &
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) |
Here I am, sitting at the Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C., eagerly waiting for our flight to depart to Frankfurt. I wish I could say this has been an easy travel journey. What should have been a 3 hour layover in D.C. turned into an over 12 hour delay and ultimate cancellation of our connecting flight to Zurich. After being shuffled around the airport by frantic airline workers, we ended up being literally the last people on our Zurich flight to have our trip rerouted and set up in a hotel overnight. While it’s been an inconvenient and tiring start to our trip, we’ve had a lot of time to relax and reflect about our upcoming adventure in Siena. While not ideal, spending this much time in an airport has been fascinating. Here, time and place is absent. Everyone and everything is in transit. Excitement and anticipation lingers in the air. There’s a certain energy about traveling that brings about the worst and the best in people. You walk past loved ones with tears in their eyes as they say farewell for who knows how long. You can hear the stress in the voices of those making last-minute travel changes on the phone. You walk past people who are running, with sweat streaming down their faces as they rush to catch that flight home, that vacation, that business trip, or in our case, that connecting flight to start our student teaching experience in Siena, Italy! Despite our unforeseen delays and hiccups, Patty reminds Sarah and I that “You are always exactly where you are meant to be. Everything that happens to you makes you who you are.” While the first day and a half of our journey hasn’t been smooth, I am grateful for the people I have had to enjoy it with. Here’s to going with the flow and trusting that it all will work out.
Siena, here we come! -- “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –Anthony Bourdain
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AuthorWhile studying abroad in Europe as an undergrad, I became infected with an ailment that makes one eternally propelled to discover and explore cultures other than their own. Many call it the "travel bug," and fortunately for me it is incurable. Archives
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