Newness.

This is the start of something new.

A new semester, a new job, a new house, a new ward, new friends (and of course, lots of good old ones, too!), new shoes and cardigans...

I'm ready for a breath of fresh air - a chance to remake myself, even if it's a little bit at a time.

But before I launch into all this new stuff, let's recap a little bit of the old. Here are two photos I really like:

This one's from the Netherlands, where I traveled with four friends from Cambridge: Alex (the boy), Camille (the girl), Jeff (the boy), and Alex (the girl). We stayed with Alex (the girl)'s family and spent one day walking around the city of Amsterdam. Here are our feet in Amsterdam. I think it's really cute.

This one's from my trip to Paris while I was in Cambridge. My friend Arber took it St. Pancras station, where you take the Eurostar from to cross under the English Channel (or La Manche, as the francophones call it).

I know it's trite to rave about how much my experiences abroad changed me... but they did. And that's that.