Look Up!!

Do you ever get that feeling you're being stared at? You know the one... when you have a giant tri-pod draped over your shoulder with some foreign looking device attached to it, while walking in a village where the word 'technology' seems like it is still coming into fruition?

I get that feeling a lot. It's interesting to see people's reactions. Some are incredibly interested. Some could care less. But they all seem to stare.

This job is fun because I get to meet all kinds of people. It encourages me to walk blindly into places I normally wouldn't. Earlier this year, I was asked how I go about designing my timeline once I arrive in a new country. This made me laugh. It dawned on me that I have never done this. In fact, to be quite honest, I am often quite ignorant of the possibilities a country has to offer before stepping foot on it's soil. But it makes traveling fun, when you don't know what you are going to do or where you will be in 2 days or 2 hours.

I really grasped this mindset this year... Floated with the wind, you might say. But it made it fun, and 'most' days quite interesting. I think it is common knowledge that if one plans everything out before hand, it's easy to forget to look up from the schedule to the exciting things that lay right next to you.