One month ago, I began the adventure to the most exciting journey of my life... grad school! Of course this meant, giving up everything in Chicago and relocating physically and emotionally to Savannah, GA where I will be spending the next two years as a full time Performing Arts student.
After one week of hustling and bustling through boxes and boxes and.... yup... more boxes, I finally unpacked my apartment located smack dab in the historic district of Savannah. The Spanish moss hangs from the incredibly large, prehistoric looking tree in the back yard, of which I swear it will just topple onto our apartment during some huge storm that we are bound to get anyday now. Oh! That reminds me, I think my favorite part about this little city thus far is the afternoon thunderstorm that says hello everyday around 4pm. Some days 5 or PM, but you get the idea.
So.... what have I been doing for this past month?... simply just trying to find myself, yet again, in a brand new city of about a 3 mile radius. Thats right.. downtown Savannah is 3-4 miles at best. I go for a morning run to find that I have ran the entire perimeter of the city in 25 minutes. When I think of how much smaller this city, no town, is compared to Chicago, I can feel my heart begin to thump, my throat feels like it's swelling, and my breathing becomes so heavy at just the thought of how much smaller this place is. Chicago is so huge that it has it's own teeny little towns within it... Rogers Park, Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and any other Park you can think of.
This past month, though absent from this blog, I have gone from block to block in this little town, looking at the brilliant architecture that has somehow managed to preserve it's original brilliance centuries ago, and beginning to breathe in this new found air that this journey has given me. Everyday, I step out my door for my morning walk/run..depending on the ol' knee, and take one deep breath in and realize that this place maybe small, a bit confined even, but it is a stepping stone leading me into one hell of a journey! Next up?... Day one of Grad School.
