I'll be spending the next year studying abroad. My fall semester will be spent in Legon/Accra, Ghana and my spring semester will be spent in Durban, South Africa. Like many other study abroad students, I made plans to keep a blog (because, of course, people care what I think.)
This blog was originally going to start on August 9th, when I touch down in Africa, but I decided to start early.
I just got to New York City, where I'll be spending my summer. I'll be interning with two theatres, and, hopefully, have lots of ridiculous adventures.
And I'm going to blog about it...but I plan on keeping my blog a secret until the second leg on my world tour (Ghana) begins. I don't know why. I had a really great reason why yesterday, but I forgot.
Hopefully, in the two months that I'm here, I'll get the hang of posting about my life every week, and making blog posts that are actually interesting.
Yesterday, on my flight from Detroit to New York, the reality of the next year finally began to sink in for me--I'm going to be hopping from location to location every few months for the next year of my life. It's terrifying. I don't know what to expect. I had a really romanticized vision of what I could be like, but I don't want to jinx it or anything.
Anyway, right now, I literally have no clue what to expect out of my summer. I don't know who I'll be spending time with this summer--I need to hurry and make some friends. I only have seven episodes of Mad Men left. I don't know what kind of work I'll be doing. I have my first meeting with the powers-that-be of the Movement Theatre Company tomorrow. It's a company of young theatre artists of color (like me!). I can dig that.
Maybe they'll all be amazing, and I'll have an amazing, tight-knit group of talented, attractive, nice, kind friends who all have apartments scattered around convenient locales through New York City.
A kid can dream, right?
Either way--here's to a reflective, amazing, fun, scary, life-changing summer. Woo!
Peace and Love,
Jamal
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