Impressions and Interpretations

As you may be able to tell from my previous posts -- they have been very descriptive and have had very little interpretive quality. This has been mostly on purpose because as I have mentioned before, I do not want to make hasty generalizations or interpretations about my experiences here. I have also not posted for a while. Partly because i'm busy with schoolwork, partly because my life is becoming more routine and less post-worthy, and party because I am taking time to really interpret all that I am experiencing here so that I can share it in a much more meaningful way than I have been able to thus far. I have grown so much in the past three months (yes, I have already been here that long, more than three months actually! :). When reading an email from my granny, she said that most everything at home had stayed about the same. I should have expected this, but when I thought about it and contrasted the "sameness" of home with the change that I have experienced and growth that I am still going through -- I am so glad that I am here and have had the opportunity to be here. I don't think I could have ever achieved this level of growth at home. More on all that later! In any case, thanks for bearing with me as I synthesize all that I am experiencing and allow myself time to interpret and share it!