Nowhere is that more evident then in the way I used to write my posts on this blog.
Occasionally that side of me emerges, especially when I feel so compelled to recount even the most mundane details of my on-goings.
I realize that this aspect of my blogging habits arises from how I felt when I realized that, after my trip to the states in 2004 for the OM World Finals, I had not bothered to pen down any of the memories I had brought back with me. A pity, since now I find myself struggling to remember how it felt like to have been there and done that.
So the very next trip I took abroad (church camp 2005), I made sure to put in writing the entire trip, as I have done with every subsequent one.
Doubtlessly, the way with which I've written my posts has changed almost unrecognizably, but that is probably because the last 2 trips with my class were dramatically different in their tone. It wasn't just for leisure, there was something je ne sais qua about them. I think I managed to capture a little bit of that in those posts.
Tomorrow, I return, in a number of ways, to the position I was back in 06. I'll be around the same people, in the same location, for the same duration of time, in all likelihood doing the same things.
Yet I have a feeling that it will not resemble my experience back then even in the slightest. That has quite a bit to do with how I've changed ever since I entered the IB course (I may seem to be attributing far too much of my personality to this course which I've just finished and am very glad to be finished with, so my use of this term is really with reference to the entire experience, largely in the context of the course, over the past 2 years).
One thing I can pinpoint which will be different during this trip is the fact that I plan to have an extended period of unbridled, non-productive, windinmyhairsandinmytoes activity, something I've not had the chance to indulge in for the longest time.
