Spring Update

This blog is far overdue for an update. In my last post from January 15th, I was rather blunt about what was going on. Things were changing and it was a little difficult. I found myself living on the edge of a dormant, spiritless village in a big, beautiful, cold and lonely house. I had returned back to Albania after a lovely rendezvous in America to be reminded that the situation that was facing me was still there, that the drama of mistakes and the unhappiness of my previous assignment was still staring me in the face, just as it had been for about 6 months to.. my entire service in Ksamil.

The short resolve to this story is that I fixed it.

I wasn't going to live my life that way any longer. Finally, the fact that my assignment and expectations for myself weren't being met needed to be addressed.  I don't need to legitimize or badger this topic any further. Remembering a conversation w/R and the joy I felt when I worked at the Children's Home in Saranda; I decided that if I was going to dive into this work there was no turning back and that I'd need to fully commit.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. What spurred this crazy change from hey, I'm leaving and moving on with my life to let's stay another year and do awesome things?

The change was kicked off in February with a visit from Julia Swanson. In this month I explored, celebrated, immersed myself in friendships, and figuratively (sometimes literally) ran through the streets of Albania.