Summer is great. You have your own place in a decently sized, albeit painfully sprawling and conservative, city. You are taking a great class entitled "18th Century British Satire," which you believe are doing very well in, and have two more equally awesome classes, Human Sexual Behavior and the Myth of Peter Pan in Literature and Film, to look forward to once this one is finished. You have an internship. More friends than you expected are living within walking distance of your apartment. You found out you were awarded a $4,000 scholarship to basically blog and report back to America while studying abroad. You have a bike and enough friends with cars to get you places. You've started practicing yoga. The weather is great. You are heading to Denver next weekend for Pride. Everyone is chill. The world, dear readers, is at your fingertips.
Except for one painful reality. YOU HAVE NO JOB AND, THEREFORE, VERY LITTLE MONEY. This is a problem. Oh, and also, you aren't in London. Or traveling the globe. Instead, your days are spent doing homework, reconnecting with old friends that you really did miss while across the Pond, and slaving away at an unpaid internship with a very small non-profit. I keep reminding myself that it's a "stepping stone for bigger and better internships in bigger and better cities doing bigger and better things NEXT summer," but that can only keep you sane for so long when you spend your Saturday morning, your delicious hot fudge sundae of oversleep to end off a hard week of class, folding newspapers. FOR FIVE HOURS.
Ha. Hahahaha. Forgive my contemptuous, acrimonious, and slightly arrogant attitude, but I have bigger things awaitin'. At least I'm realizing that non-profits a'int my steez. At the end of the day, though, at least I HAVE an internship. Plus, I'm working for a good cause. So, in reality, there are benefits.
Truthfully, though, I love summer in Colorado Springs, despite my less-than-ideal job/economic situation. However, I feel like I'm putting less energy into actual, tangible things that are right in front of me, and instead find myself floating off into abstractions relating to this fall. I certainly have been reminiscing about Europe, too.
I got an A- in Drama Away. I got an A- for going to London. I'll take that.
My name is Sam. I'm a junior majoring in Drama and English Literature at Colorado College. I spent the spring of 2011 studying in London and traipsing around Spain. This is a map of my second big journey of 2011: literally circumnavigating the globe in 111 days. St. Augustine said, "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." I hope to make it beyond page one. To get in touch with me directly, e-mail me at srfaktorow@semesteratsea.net.
My Itinerary
Where I will be between August 26 and December 13
Monday, June 13, 2011
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