Exodus

[olga553]

I decided to leave for school early. I feel restless and useless here, and I feel like I really want to make this semester significant and productive. Friends are beginning to scatter across the United States and Europe, and at home I feel some kind of strange alienation that was never present before. The older I get, the less I fit in here. So, I decided that getting back on the 17th would allow me to get settled in again, take the language placement exam (find out if I can still rock my French), find a job, make up a volunteering schedule with a school, and have some free time enjoy the campus and its resources before the craziness of the semester begins. I don't know what I'm going to tell my parents, but probably just that. I have a feeling that this time they won't be as sad to let me go. While (in the words of my dad) all the other russian kids are studying business or medicine, I'm doing Enlgish. And Art History. Translation: they don't approve, and I went against the disapproval. Black sheep. Don't give a damn, gonna do what I want to do.

Well kids, I guess I'll see ya in Ithaca on the 17th sometime - Jonathan, come knock on the door. We'll whine about the weather and such :)