That�s all, Folks!
Posted 01-17-2009 1:19 pm by

I’m back home now thinking of the last eight months of my life. I realize I’m just sitting here in my chair thinking “woah.” I’ve been so blessed to have the opportunities to travel to all sorts of places already in my short life. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading about my adventures, and that they haven’t bored you. Maybe they’ve taught you something. Maybe they’ve inspired you to see what’s over there on the other side of the Atlantic. I don’t know what you’ve learned. But I do know what I’ve learned: Travel puts a face on humanity. We may not understand different cultures. We may think they’re strange. But they deserve respect in their own right. And understanding that makes travel a force for peace. It’s so clear to me that each country is made up of real people, real families, real mothers, brothers and sisters. If we simply understood that simple almost trite truth, I believe that we’d have a government that got along more constructively with the family of nations.
Now, my attention has turned back to Notre Dame and my fourth year out of five there in my quest for a BFA in Product Design and a BA in Italian. Hope you can catch a game or two this fall, and be sure to watch for the guys in the kilts marching out in front of the band. I’ll be the shortest one of the group. Go Irish!