Linguistic Life

4 Years and Counting
Little more than a week ago, Grinnell, my undergraduate school once again held graduation, and I realized that I have now been out of college for as long as I was in it. Inspired by one of my friends, a list of what I have done in those 4 years in the outside world, not necessarily in order:

• Lived in Japan for a year
• Visited Germany, France, China, and South Africa
• Taught English in Japan, China, Taiwan, and two college progams in Michigan
• Moved 5 times
• Entered grad school
• Watched my life fall apart
• Finished grad school
• Escaped from "white slavery" in Taiwan
• Traveled in the US
• Put life back together
• Broke my streak of spending every odd-numbered birthday in a foreign country
• Got a job unrelated to the academic year

I can't decide if this is a lot, or not enough. I'm at a strange place in my life where my brain alternates between telling me that time's a-wasting and I need to get a move on, or that I'm still quite young and have many years ahead of me to both figure things out and do all the things I want to do.