Matchingsocks’s Weblog

This girl is back from East Africa! She’s posted all the blog posts she wrote while she’s there so you all can go take a read. They are a tad wordy, but the week she spent there was truly rich in such flavour, she felt- and feels- that she’s wiser and better for it.

This girl returned home to wide open arms, bigger grins and a white lilies, all wrapped in a pretty purple thing. What could be better? Its good to be home.

Over the course of her being there, she received more grad school news. Some good, some not so good, but all still okay at the end. This girl got into John Hopkins (SAIS) but not into Princeton. Truth be told, she’s neither surprised nor upset by the news. She’d always known that Princeton was a long shot- and it faced stiff, stiff competition from Fletcher; where her heart is oddly still set on. And in light of the schools she’s gotten into, she’d not have gone to SAIS either.

Basically, she’s still standing where she was. Waiting for Fletcher to send her their scholarship pack and waiting for Harvard’s reply- she’s, however, not holding her breath.

Its a funny feeling, really, this girl thinks, having to deal with so many new things all at once. Grad school adding a huge load on top of the many things she has going on in her life. And for the first time in a long time, this girl sat back to really take things in. It was a huge moment, an honest moment- a grown up moment.

And to you that shared it with her, thank you. She lucked out.