Direktlänk till inlägg 2 juni 2014
Taking Flight
I have the visa, the tickets are booked and in a few weeks I'll be leaving my hometown to spend six months in the states. To stay in touch with my Master's class (hence the reason to why the blog is in English) and all you other wonderful people back home I will be keeping this little travel blog. I hope to update the blog a tidbit every now and then with my escapades and interesting events from my life across the Atlantic. First of all I guess an explanation to the reason for my journey is in order. I've come to my final year in my studies to become an ethologist, and thus it is time to me to spend a year collecting data for and writing my Master's thesis. Basically, I will be spending my time in the U.S with conducting a study concerning how cats react to different tastes and what they like or dislike. I've been working all spring with designing the experiments and I'm really excited to see how it will all come together once I'm there. I'll be living and working in the North East of Missouri which is a part of the Mid West and located in the center of the U.S On my earlier trips to the U.S I've only been to the West Coast and Hawaii so I'm really curious to see a new side of the country.
Taking the chance to live abroad is something that I've thought about for many years and a chance I've been really waiting for. Being only a few weeks away from leaving is almost a surreal feeling. The preparations and planning that I've made during the whole spring feels more like a mix between some side project in school and a daydream. It's impossible for me to comprehend what is yet to come and that this is actually happening. It's just something that I can't wrap my head around. I've followed travel blogs from different people that I've known who in one way or another have conquered the world in their own way and I must admit, how I have envied them and been longing to do something similar. So all of a sudden, I was presented with the opportunity. It's one of those things, you've been waiting, longing and thinking about it for so long and all of a sudden the moment is there for you to seize. I guess I almost feel like a baby bird somehow, thinking about soaring through the sky for so long and then one day all off a sudden it is time to spread your wings and take flight.
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