The World Out There

So I think the ear is making a little progress. I still can't hear out of it however the sharp pain has now been reduced to a mild pain and an even lighter throbbing. I am dreading this group meeting before class. People always want to meet for the stupidest reasons and never have an agenda. I always find myself in groups where they expect me to take the lead and organize everything. While I appreciate that people look to me as a leader, it can get draining as well. In this case I am making a point of NOT being the go to person. I'm tired...and for the last two weeks physically sick as well. To boot, one of the girls in the group likes to send emails that have no less than five paragraphs each. Brevity is a good thing in certain instances. To add insult to injury, a member from my other group simply has no clue what we have been working on for the entire semester. With two weeks until presentation, she's going to have to get a clue quickly. Again, I'm falling back on this one even if it means finishing out with a B+ over the A grade I deserve. She has contributed the bare minimum on all group assignments. I am so happy school will be over very soon.

I'm going to book my ticket to South Korea this weekend. I'm going to take the chance financially and just do it. I know it's crazy but you know what...why not?!? Life really is too short. Years ago I use to think about what I would do in my 30s and travelling with a mate or good friend(s) was pretty high on the list. While I do have good friends, they don't want to travel as far as I do because of various reasons like their mate doesn't want them to go, location, no time, etc. Another one of my friends has been trying to get to Paris for the last four years. Each year the people he was to travel with cancel at the last minute. I told him he should go it alone because if you keep waiting on people he many never get there. I follow my own advice. I don't want to keep waiting on others to enjoy things like travel in my life. If I really think about it, I am fortunate in the sense that I meet people everywhere I go. I want to be a world traveller because it's a big world out there and so many different places to explore. Why limit myself to just reading about all of these places when I can also see it for myself? Every time I see the tourist bus go past my window I think about the visitors to our city who wanted to come to the Big Apple. They are on their adventure in NYC...I want to go on an adventure in their part of the world...and I will. I better go. More later.