A Brief Musing

Wrote this to my brother today, thought it might be helpful for all of you to read as well:

Hey Andrew,

Hope all is well with you and that you have a good journey back to the states soon. Amazing that you're time is almost up, ours will soon be as well! This intership's been a lot different than mine in 2006. For one we've really been learning more about what it's like to live here: cooking for ourselves, shopping at pazar weekly, using public transportation, learning and using Turkish as much as is possible, fighting mental/spiritual/physical exhaustion in the heat, trying to work on and encourage our marriage amid all this "newness", and on and on... This makes a two-week trip seem like a vacation and my past two-month internship seem like an adventure. This is giving us a better taste of what long-term life and work may be like here and it's just plain hard-work sometimes!! And I'm not complaining, just being honest. When your language ability has been reduced to that of a two-year old yet you're expected to live like an adult it can be frustrating and exhilarating all at the same time!

Maybe you're experience has been similar, maybe more like mine two years ago. I don't know, can't wait to debrief with you in August sometime before school starts. Press on until then!

Running with you,
Marcus