Reading over my posts from my last trip to Australia, I can't believe it was only 7 months ago! It seems like an entire lifetime away. I still love my family to death, but I've definitely gotten over any withdrawal symptoms or whatever I was complaining about in my last post. So much has changed and I'm in such a different place than I was back then...
I graduated from GW in May and I now work for the American Red Cross as a Program Assistant in their International Services Department, specifically working with programming in the Asia/Middle East/Europe region. I spent the summer doing a paid internship with them at their National Headquarters in DC and was recently offered a job! My team is heading off to Bangkok in a little over a day for a project management training and regional meetings, and I'm so nervous! We have delegates all over the field, and they're all coming to meet us in Bangkok. I've been helping to plan this meeting for the past few weeks, so I'm also nervous/excited to see how it all comes together. I'll be meeting a ton of new people, on foreign ground, and without a family member in sight. It'll be a totally new experience, and as nervous as I am, I'm also super excited and can't wait to go! I just hope I remember to pack everything. The people I'm going with are much older than me and such pros when it comes to international travel and I'm a complete noob. I just hope I can play it cool and not make a fool out of myself (as if that's ever possible).
In any case, I'm going to try my best to update this blog as much as I can while I'm there - hopefully keeping my posts shorter than I did last time. At some point this year (before December 31, 2012 - I promise), I will finish updating the entire blog, complete with pictures and everything from both Australia and Thailand. I went through and added a bunch of pictures to my Australia posts, but I still have a bunch to go.
I've got a ton of packing left (I also need to pack up my apartment since my lease expires while I'm abroad) - so much to do, so little time! We'll see how it goes! :)
I graduated from GW in May and I now work for the American Red Cross as a Program Assistant in their International Services Department, specifically working with programming in the Asia/Middle East/Europe region. I spent the summer doing a paid internship with them at their National Headquarters in DC and was recently offered a job! My team is heading off to Bangkok in a little over a day for a project management training and regional meetings, and I'm so nervous! We have delegates all over the field, and they're all coming to meet us in Bangkok. I've been helping to plan this meeting for the past few weeks, so I'm also nervous/excited to see how it all comes together. I'll be meeting a ton of new people, on foreign ground, and without a family member in sight. It'll be a totally new experience, and as nervous as I am, I'm also super excited and can't wait to go! I just hope I remember to pack everything. The people I'm going with are much older than me and such pros when it comes to international travel and I'm a complete noob. I just hope I can play it cool and not make a fool out of myself (as if that's ever possible).
In any case, I'm going to try my best to update this blog as much as I can while I'm there - hopefully keeping my posts shorter than I did last time. At some point this year (before December 31, 2012 - I promise), I will finish updating the entire blog, complete with pictures and everything from both Australia and Thailand. I went through and added a bunch of pictures to my Australia posts, but I still have a bunch to go.
I've got a ton of packing left (I also need to pack up my apartment since my lease expires while I'm abroad) - so much to do, so little time! We'll see how it goes! :)
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