The first thing you need to know about me, part of the reasoning behind the title "Wandering Wits" is because it's a fancy, alliterative way to say I have a meandering mind. Now part of that is fairly standard ADD, a need to jump between thoughts and ideas and projects to stay sane. A larger, more poetic part is my near-constant need to be somewhere, typically called wanderlust.
I had the wonderful opportunity to travel in high school, with a band program that stayed with host families, and spent three weeks traveling France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. Then in college went to Italy for a week as a spring break program and earned three credits traipsing around Rome and Florence. Then I earned six credits in six weeks in Vietnam, Cambodia, and China. And then my best friend lived in Korea for a spell, and I had to visit.
I will undoubtedly talk about all these experiences at length. Not to brag, but to help you understand my addiction. My addiction to being somewhere else. I have been in this country for a year, which means I'm getting the itch, the symptom. I love my home, but the side effect of having fairly consecutive out-of-country experiences is a craving to be elsewhere. To be surrounded by new. If you share my addiction, you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you don't, I will do my best to educate as I share my experiences.r
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