Location: Fairfax Station, VA
Latitude: 38° 43' 51.3" Longitude: -77° 15' 22.8"
It’s finally real. It’s hard to believe that something that’s been in the making since September 2007 is finally happening. I’m a little bit nervous right now since it will be such a new experience, meeting so many new people and new places. However, I’m not too worried given all I’ve already experienced, like living in Japan for two years. If I can climb Mount Fuji as an eight-year-old, how hard can all this be?
I haven’t really given too much thought to the places I’ll be going. I guess that’s kind of short sited, but I don’t know. As soon as I got back from school I went right to work with the Army Office of the Quadrennial Defense Review at the Pentagon so I never really had the downtime to fiddle around on the internet looking for random sites to go see. Even so, it should still be an amazing experience.
I can’t really figure out what I’m most looking forward to about the trip. I think Naples, Italy is the port I’m most looking forward to. I remember reading books about how they found those old Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum next to Mount Vesuvius. It’s amazing that they were preserved for so long; it will be like walking into a time capsule.
I figure my classes should be interesting enough. I don’t really know much about the Russian economy or culture, outside of what I’ve learned from movies like The Hunt for Red October and Red Dawn. Besides, if I can knock out the grades I have been lately, this shouldn’t be too bad.
No matter what happens, there’s going to be some changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes and it’s going to be a hell of a ride.
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