It’s the day after Christmas, and I just got back from the dentist. My life since returning home from Wellesley seems to be full of an awful lot of “adult” moments these days. I’ve only been home four days, but I’ve already been to the doctor, dentist, gotten my cracked phone fixed, learned first hand about credit history, and gotten extremely excited over receiving a hat for Christmas. In two days, I’ll be commuting into New York City into an actual office, where I will have an actual (if brief) paying job at a dream workplace, the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia Presbyterian . Life right now is an interesting mixture of feeling proud of how far I’ve come and feeling vulnerable as I test new waters.
Everything seems to be moving so fast, too. I leave for Copenhagen in less than 20 days, most of which will be spent working. I’ve missed the Berrie Center a lot this past semester, and I’m really looking forward to going back and getting to be surrounded by such wonderful and talented people again. Still, it doesn’t leave much time for attending to the many little things that keep cropping up before my departure. I haven’t even unpacked from my semester at Wellesley and I already need to start re-packing for my semester abroad. Yikes!
In other exciting news, I’ve recently learned that I’m going to be staying with a Danish host family while I’m abroad in Copenhagen! They seem incredibly nice, and sent me the absolute sweetest e-mail welcoming me into their family. I actually squealed out loud when I read it. They have kids around my age and a dog! I feel pretty lucky, and I can’t wait to meet them. Actually living in another culture is going to be an entirely new experience for me, but I’m so excited to experience Denmark as the Danes do and see some new perspectives.
Anyways, I had a lovely quiet Christmas with family, and my dog ate the cheese off the cheese platter when we weren’t looking…twice. I’m treasuring the moments I do have here at home, while looking forward to exciting adventures ahead. I hope you, too have had a relaxing and warm holiday. When I write to you next, it will be 2017, so Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best.
Look at my beautiful (and a little too deliberately) decorated Christmas tree! Best wishes for the new year.
Ever lovely yours,
Eleanor