World Traveler

So I was thinking of going to Egypt to renew my tourist visa for Turkey but with my trip to India and the possibility of doing another two month traineeship in Italy, I really don't have the money to afford it. If for some reason the trip to India gets canceled (we are getting a bit nervous being that there is no malaria shot available in Turkey) then I would take that time and go to Egypt instead.

So I just spoke to a friend from home that has been working for the past year in a really great job in a law firm in Minneaolis and I freaked out! I am seiously so afraid that I'm gonna jump in to the daily grind and I'm never going to be able to escape. This means only two weeks of vacation the entire year! How am I going to visit all my friends all over the world? Okay yeah, I will start a retirement plan and go to the doctor for regular check-ups because I will have health insurence, but I don't know if I can handle driving down the same streets, going in to the same building on the same floor, in the same place every day and every day 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for who knows how many years?!! ARGH!!!!!

I am really enjoying my life of constant cultural stimulation, excitement of the unknown in every corner, and the ability to take off to another foreign exotic country at the drop of a hat. Its really so amazing! I would never give up this experience for anything. After this I am just afraid of going home and getting bored...

which is why I just might possibly take up this opportunity to work in Italy for two months. At this point what is going to a place I have always dreamed of living for two more months out of the next 50 years of my life? Nothing. When am I ever going to get another chance for a two month vacation? Sometime in the next 10 years??

If the company is decent and I can learn something from it, to Italy I will go. This would put me back in Minnesota around the end of April or the first week of May. Actually, it would be perfect timing for skipping out on the post winter muddy slush. I have more time for that later on in life :-)