The Return to Maryland.

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So I'm sitting at my dining room table, fire going, mom in the kitchen, Rocco MIA with some friends, and downing glasses of water to prepare for my first class back at Bikram Yoga SP, and it's like no time has passed. It's like nothing has changed since I left in August to go to France. But so much has changed. So much time has gone by. Not only have my bangs grown out and my wardrobe been hit with an H&M invasion, but the experiences that I have had abroad have changed who I am as a person. How could they not?

So now it's almost Christmas and my heart is all over the world. I want to be everywhere I've ever been, everywhere I haven't been yet, and exactly where I am right now. I have the travel bug more than I've ever had it before, but I am also so happy to be home with my family again. It's just hard because I feel like I have so many different kinds of family now, in all corners of the world. I miss my host family in Rouen, I miss traveling around with my friends in Santorini, I miss Centre Baobab in Dakar, I miss my Senegalese friends in Mont Saint Aignan, I miss Simone in Germany, I even miss sleeping on trains and in airports while traveling all over the place. It's just a very different lifestyle, living in France as opposed to living back at home. And it's going to be even more different rejoining all the alcoholics up at St. Lawrence University in January.

But for now, I really am happy to be back with the family for the holidays. Even if Christmas means nothing more to me than any other day of the year, it's special because I'll be with my family who I love more than anything. Are we going to Christmas mass? Absolutely not. Are we having a giant Indian curry dish for Christmas dinner? Yes. Is is going to be awesome? Absolutely.

It's already time for me to get ready for yoga. My first class back in 4 months (besides one class in Brussels and one class in Paris), and it should be an adventure.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do with this blog yet. I mean I'm no longer a vegan, I'm no longer traveling the world, I'm no longer doing anything out of the ordinary, so I'm not sure how much longer I'm gonna keep updating this. So peace and love and talk to you next time, whenever that may be!

Love, Josie