We're all human.

This isnt my Ghana blog, yet.

This is my realization that this trip is coming to an end.

My heart just dropped as I was thinking about it. I'm not ready to come home. This whole idea is so bittersweet though. There are some days where I feel like I am but as a whole, Im not. I wish I could go home for a week and do this all over again. I've met so many amazing people on this trip. Not just college friends on the ship too. I've become close with professors, crew, staff, interport students, and of course people from each port. My friends and I have been saying over and over that when we go home and we are around friends from home and want to tell a story or a "remember that one time in India" and no one is going to know/understand/appreciate what we are talking about. We joke that we will all call and text each other when that happens. But seriously I know it will. Im going to miss all of the friends i've made on this trip so much. Im going to miss the ocean too. Lis was saying she misses seeing grass all the time the other day and I proceeded to tell her that I dont miss it at all. I LOVE being on the ocean 24/7. Ive come to love the freezing cold boat..er I mean ship, and the intense feeling of humidity outside. It's become a feeling of home to me. I come back from treveling independently in port and feel home once Im back on the ship and I know im not the only one who feels that way. Ive come to feel the rocking of the ship as soothing and normal. There are countless little things that have become my norm that Im going to want back home in Colorado. 

I just keep repeating it over and over in my head: one more port left, only one more port..seriously, only one more port?

Then I look over at my map and follow the red line of travel all the way from Littleton, Colorado- SanDiego, California- Ensenada, Mexico- Hilo, Hawaii-Honolulu, Hawaii- Yokohama, Japan- Kobe, Japan- Shanghai, China- Hong Kong, China- Siagon, Vietnam- Cambodia- Chennai, India- Cohin, India, Port Louis, Mauritus- Cape Town, South Africa to Tema, Ghana.

Then I look at how much longer I have to go in order to legally say I have circumnavigated around the world.

 

 

Can you believe that. I mean people on here say that like it's nothing. But when you really take the time to think about it, it's crazy. In less than a month I will be able to say that I, at 21 years old, have literally traveled around the entire WORLD. I have literally gone around the Earth. Wow.

I've seen things in the world that most people, even in America, will never see. I've had experiences that cannot ever be recreated or "one uped".

I've said this a million times, but im SO fortunate. Ive become so disgusted with money on this trip though. Its kind of a catch 22.

 

Maybe right now is finally when its hit me. I got on this ship and it hadnt hit me at all what I was doing. It still hasnt fully sank in. But its starting to...I think.

Ghana sort of made me realize it. When I called my parents and they asked how it was and what it is like it kind of clicked to me. Im going to places that people would (for the most part) never really travel to. Its not Europe where the standard college kid goes and then travels around and does that whole deal. Im staying in Japanese hostels, seeing cambodian killing feilds, and seeing greater poverty than most American's will ever whitness in their lifetime.

 

Its hard to wrap your head around.

I mean once you really sit down and seriously think about it. Its mind boggling.

I hope every kid on this trip realizes how lucky they are. As were told almost daily, "were lucky little bunnies".