It's been far too long since I have seen my fellow Spanish travelers, not to mention the other friends I have made who are going to France, Italy, Argentina, etc. During a slow period of work today, I popped onto stumbleupon quickly and it brought me to this site:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1C7U6i/:13v7el1li:OC!_uW1J/convergemagazine.com/travel-young-5278/
It talks about why we should travel, let alone do it while we're young. The article makes a good point: many put off the joys and experience of traveling only to not ever travel because there is always something to do now! However, just because we travel young doesn't mean that we should stop there. Ben Johnson puts it as best as I can think someone can put it: though I am young, I cannot tell. Although his poem goes on to talk about how we can be blinded by love from being young, the first line could be applied to other situations too. Travel. Travel now, when we can't tell if we are young or old or somewhere in between. Do it when time doesn't seem to bother us and debts, jobs, or other factors plague us. Now is the time, and now is the time to live! Who knows if we will wake up tomorrow, so do what you want to today.
It is the in between time because there was no meeting in March, but there is a meeting in two Saturdays. I will be giving a speech to parents as to why I want to be in rotary, who I am as a person, etc. etc. No word yet on who my family is or where I will be going, but I getting excited and anxious! I am a charcter in the big God story; He has great plans for me!
~Ashlyn
