In Preparation...

I'm juggling three big summer commitments (work, internship and volunteering) with applying for visas, shopping for hiking boots and getting yellow fever shots. I have made time management an art form. I'm happy to be busy as Boston starts to look more and more like a repeat of forty-days-and-forty-nights--should I start building an ark? When I'm constantly doing something I can ignore the sad sight of the world looking like dusk at noon.

Working at the BU International Programs office, these incredible programs have in some ways become paperwork, and brochure photographs to me. Still, as the date of my flight to Ecuador approaches (August 22, 2009) and I realize how little I actually understand about life in these places, I get more and more excited (which is saying a lot, since I've been pumped to go since day one of college).