We are Georgetown
Having spent a week in DC, it's time for me to evaluate.
First of all, this place is unbelievable in so many ways. There are endless possibilities, countless things to do, culture, history, diversity, wealth, poverty, beauty, intelligence, and everything else wrapped into a place so small it's not even a state. There is an aura of mystery that makes me want to explore, to seek out, to discover, to expand, to be a better me.
This campus is breathtakingly beautiful, and the culture and intellectual richness is everything I've always wanted. There is an unprecedented sense of community and somehow I know that this is where I belong... that I am part of Georgetown (though I'm sure others won't understand this) is an incredible feeling of belonging...
Thus said.... I'm sad. And in spite of this welcoming and open community I have a hard time making friends and therefore feel somehow lost. I would be absolutely complete in this moment if I could have brought home with me. My friends, my family... these aren't things that I can say now w/o envisioning an almost different life. It's been only week, and yet I feel so far removed from el paso and am weary of this new place, and so I fear not finding solid friends here, and also having been forgotten when I go home. I suppose this is just a phase, and as all else it will pass and sometime I will find a home both here and there... but until that time i'm sad, and lost, sort of confused, definitely overwhelmed, a little scared, and in need of some serious lovin....
First of all, this place is unbelievable in so many ways. There are endless possibilities, countless things to do, culture, history, diversity, wealth, poverty, beauty, intelligence, and everything else wrapped into a place so small it's not even a state. There is an aura of mystery that makes me want to explore, to seek out, to discover, to expand, to be a better me.
This campus is breathtakingly beautiful, and the culture and intellectual richness is everything I've always wanted. There is an unprecedented sense of community and somehow I know that this is where I belong... that I am part of Georgetown (though I'm sure others won't understand this) is an incredible feeling of belonging...
Thus said.... I'm sad. And in spite of this welcoming and open community I have a hard time making friends and therefore feel somehow lost. I would be absolutely complete in this moment if I could have brought home with me. My friends, my family... these aren't things that I can say now w/o envisioning an almost different life. It's been only week, and yet I feel so far removed from el paso and am weary of this new place, and so I fear not finding solid friends here, and also having been forgotten when I go home. I suppose this is just a phase, and as all else it will pass and sometime I will find a home both here and there... but until that time i'm sad, and lost, sort of confused, definitely overwhelmed, a little scared, and in need of some serious lovin....