Almost Ready For Island Hopping (except for that packing thing)

Today’s my last day in New York before heading off to Europe! Two days in London before catching my layover to Malta. After my flight to Valletta I get to take a ferry to the smaller northern island of Gozo, where I’ll be staying until late August. For those of who have no clue what exactly I’m doing on a random Mediterranean island for nearly a month, I guess it’d be smart to explain. Basically to get more experience in the “field” of anthropology (dear god that was a terrible pun) I’m going to Gozo on a field school trip sponsored by a group of (mostly Belgian) professors affiliated with Omertaa, a journal for applied anthropology. If all goes well with my research and I write an affective journal article I may even be published in the next journal. That’s one of my ultimate goals for this, but also just the chance to go to Europe for the first time, albeit a random and beautiful island, is so exciting.

And also starting tomorrow at 4am will begin a crazy time for traveling, as after this I will have only six days between coming back to New York from Malta and beginning my ten weeks abroad in Fiji. I’d really want to do even more traveling after Fiji, to go onto New Zealand once again and Australia, but unless a magical bag of money appears on my doorstep that’s not happening. At one point my professor mentioned possibly taking a midterm trip to Samoa during my term abroad, but sadly we’re not doing that. That would have been sick to visit my old host family and that great place.

This sounds stupid, but hopefully I won’t loose all contact with the “Western” world when I’m away – keeping up with movies and music. This is pathetically important to me. Maybe it’ll be good for me to loose contact from that inconsequential stuff for a while. Ironically I just bought a book to read about the powerhouse of the American entertainment industry. But for those reading feel free to comment, email me, facebook post me to at least attempt to keep in contact! I’d love to hear from you all and what’s up with you guys. I’m going to miss you all a ton.  I’ll really do my best to get back to you.

I suppose I’ll write much more when I have something more exciting to post about once I’m there though.

~ by roamingnome on July 26, 2008.