Arrivederci Roma!
[Editor's Note: This was written on the airplane ride home from Amsterdam on March 24th, 2010]
24.3.10 – 11:40 a.m. Seattle time; 19:40 Amsterdam/Rome time- Over the Rocky Mountains
“Pimping all over the World” just came on my iPod, a fitting song as I get closer and closer to home (about 40 minutes). The only more appropriate song would
be “Hello Seattle,” which I believe is also on the same playlist I’m listening to.
So time is flying by, even last night at the airport and today on the airplane. This trip to Europe, while it was 11 weeks, was far too short and over far too quickly. I kind of feel like this will be a theme in life now. Once your 21, 22 and graduate from college, I feel like it’ll be easy for time to fly by. What’s most important is that we make the most of the time we have here, no matter how long or short. Never hold yourself back. Never over-f******-think, because by the time your done the chance that anything good will happen is over.
Nothing but good times and no regrets. It was born in Rome but I sincerely hope will make it’s presence felt back in the states too.
We are officially in Washington and you know what? I’m excited. I’m excited to see everybody. I’m excited to get off this plane. But mostly, I’m excited to see if I can take all I learned in Rome (mostly out of the classroom, but some inside too. Fricken “in-group, out-group”- not sure where I finished there in the program) and apply it to real life in America. I feel like I have to, or all I will have gotten out of this program is roughly 92,000 hangovers and an “I Heart Roma” t-shirt.
So this is a promise, and being written down [editor’s note: and now published] to keep myself accountable. I’m almost 21 years old (hell yeah!) and life is just starting.
I, David Krueger, promise to make the most out of it, no matter how long it lasts.
[Editor’s note: Grazie Mille Roma!]
Signed: David Krueger
Dated: 24.3.10
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