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And It Begins...

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View from the flight from New Jersey to Bridgetown, Barbados It has now almost been a week since I left home in Chicago; I left on January 17 (Wednesday) to go to Boston and left on the 20th (Saturday) to Barbados. Before I continue with what has been happening now, I want to mention a couple of things about when I left. I didn't expect or think it would be "hard, hard"; I definitely took certain things for granted, but I guess that is how you grow. I know the goodbyes I said will be more "see you laters", but that doesn't mean that it didn't hurt; it's part of the adventure. I spent some days in Boston with my mom which was really nice since I had never been before, and then Saturday morning at 4 am I met a "stranger" (I had been talking to her online, not the same thing though) and we flew together from Boston to New Jersey where we got to see New York City (the Statue of Liberty which was probably my favorite) and then to Barbados; speci...