The good life
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009I had to keep a journal for my internship this semester in order to get credit for GC. For the 15-week internship I had to have a weekly journal in addition to an “abstract” that was a general overview of the entire experience. I finished it up my last week in London and had a read through the whole thing before sending it off. It was nice to see all the great stuff I was able to do when I was there. While it wasn’t a really structured internship by any means I really can’t complain. I was living and working in London for 15 weeks! I can’t think of many people who can say that (except all the interns I met at Parliament) but there were lots of other aspects of being in Europe for the whole semester that made this an even more incredible opportunity.
The fact that I got to go visit all of my family and my beautiful girlfriend while over here made the beginning of ‘09 really special. I knew I wanted to get to visit everyone while I was over here, but I never thought things would work out so perfect. First, Melissa was able to come visit me in London. Then I got to go spend a week with all of my family in Scotland. Then all of my family came to London for my birthday. Then I was able to go visit Melissa in Granada. Then we had a wonderful “spring break” together and I got to see my parents in Germany. As if this wasn’t enough I had a last minute trip to see my sister (and Scottish fam!) in Madrid.
When I got back to London for my last week and was recapping all of my “work” in my journals I was also looking back at all traveling I was able to do. I realized how fortunate I was to not only have had such a terrific and truly unique internship experience but also all the time I was able to spend with everyone I love. I can’t thank everyone who played a part in everything working out the way it did enough, you know who you are.
Life seems almost too good to be true right now. But I’m trying to be as thankful for all the great opportunities I have because I know not everyone has them and that they won’t last forever. :)/:(