Wanderlike

   I would really like to go to Ireland for like.. a year or many months. Before I left high school I didn't know what I wanted, there was a time when I planned to travel. I have always felt pressure to travel kind of- the same pressure a normal teen might feel to get good grades and continue on to a good school. I am glad I never had that kind of real pressure. But my dad and paternal grandmother are big travellers and I know that it is their wish for me to experience the world.

   To be honest though, before I went to university I had very little wanderlust. I am not the most adventurous type, and moving over one province for school was enough displacement for me. I'm a very home-based girl- I like familiarity. Lots of kids really want to travel, a ton of my friends have done it and I am always jealous but in theory mostly.

   Now that I have one year of university under my belt though, I'd really like to just get up and go. After next year I feel like I'll be chomping at the bit! I think an exchange is in order for sure, so I can study and do the whole travelling, finding myself thing too. School tends to suck the fun out of beautiful things, but I don't think even the power of book-learning could reduce the overseas experience enough to make me want to quit the dream.