I don't know where to start. How to properly sum up such a life changing summer will be next to impossible. I've only been home a little over a month, but my travels seem a life time ago. I have been markedly changed by the experience and my life will forever be divided as pre and post Germany. Perhaps that's all that needs to be said. I am different now. A changed woman; body and soul. Maybe I'm simply a "woman" for the first time, no longer a girl straddling the border between childhood and adulthood. Terrifying.

School is starting soon and although I'm scared of the course load that I've saddled myself with, I look forward to the upcoming months. There's no place I'd rather be than NYC between the months of October and January. I've reached a point in my education where I need to start making some big decisions in regards to graduate school. Do I go right away? Where to? Do I move back to LI and try to pay down my undergrad loans first?

These are all rather humdrum questions to mull over when my mind is consumed with trying to figure out how I can see and experience the world... and what I really mean by that is that I'm trying to desperately answer the questions, "how do I get my own Travel Channel show?"