I love blogging at the airport. I think it's such an appropriate place to blog, because when you're at the airport it's often a transitional time, with plenty of time waiting around when you can simultaneously reflect and close a chapter of the past and look forward to opening a chapter of the future.

I'd love to fly more if it wasn't so expensive too.

This summer has been quite a unique one in itself. It was my first (and possibly last) one spent in San Diego. I got to live with my friends off campus for a month, which was a special experience because I've been on campus for all of college because of my RA job. It was an unproductive month because it's easy to get distracted when you're around your friends, but I'm glad I had that off campus experience as well, even though from my perspective it's just paying bills. A lot of bills at that, I spent my entire first paycheck on rent.

Another really proud moment for me was getting my PADI Open Water Diver certification! I've been wanting to learn to scuba dive for a while, but just haven't gotten around to it because of a lack of motivation, initiative, and money. It was so amazing to get to dive the La Jolla Canyon and drop into the abyss and see all the different aquatic life that live down there.

I also worked as a resident advisor for the American Field Service exchange program--cross-cultural communication and community development is exhausting work, but I hope the work we did was meaningful and contributed to some of the students being able to discover more of themselves and challenge their values and choices in life.