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Travelogue, Part I of XI.
Jun. 8th, 2011 02:05 pmOkay. Let's start catching up on all the posts I want to make about my Chicago vacation. According to my to-do list, post #1 is about how much fun it was to hang out with Teresa for a few days, but no matter how much I love my sister (and I love her a great deal), I am not sure that is a full-length post of new material.
Seeing Teresa graduate was an incredibly affirming experience. While I have earned my own degree, for financial reasons I did not walk and have not received my diploma, so this is yet another way Teresa is my 'big sister,' finishing out this leg of higher education before me. her double major includes an Intercultural Storytelling program which she helped devise, and she graduated magna cum laude. She has also been an invaluable part of her college's publication scene for years. She has worked so hard, and achieved so much, and regularly just blows me away. Recently, she made a post about feeling like an adult that made me laugh, as I've thought of her as an adult, more or less, since she was 16.
Unfortunately, Teresa was adult enough and busy enough, caught up in graduating and moving apartments, that we got very little time to hang out, and I mostly had to watch from afar in amused awe. I liked getting a glimpse of her friends. Her best friend and roomie, Aislin, is an honorary family member; and her boyfriend (also a Matt) is a cool guy who, it has been joked, I have more chemistry with than Teresa does, but her other friends are still strangers to me. Generally, however hectic it was, I was glad of the opportunity to be there, and wish I could be there more often. But... as this post demonstrates, it was brief enough that I don't have much of substance to stay about it. The trip wound up being more memorable for chances to connect with other friends, and for the ordeal of interstate road-tripping with the rest of my family, which wearies me even to contemplate at the moment, so I will put that in its own post, later on.
Seeing Teresa graduate was an incredibly affirming experience. While I have earned my own degree, for financial reasons I did not walk and have not received my diploma, so this is yet another way Teresa is my 'big sister,' finishing out this leg of higher education before me. her double major includes an Intercultural Storytelling program which she helped devise, and she graduated magna cum laude. She has also been an invaluable part of her college's publication scene for years. She has worked so hard, and achieved so much, and regularly just blows me away. Recently, she made a post about feeling like an adult that made me laugh, as I've thought of her as an adult, more or less, since she was 16.
Unfortunately, Teresa was adult enough and busy enough, caught up in graduating and moving apartments, that we got very little time to hang out, and I mostly had to watch from afar in amused awe. I liked getting a glimpse of her friends. Her best friend and roomie, Aislin, is an honorary family member; and her boyfriend (also a Matt) is a cool guy who, it has been joked, I have more chemistry with than Teresa does, but her other friends are still strangers to me. Generally, however hectic it was, I was glad of the opportunity to be there, and wish I could be there more often. But... as this post demonstrates, it was brief enough that I don't have much of substance to stay about it. The trip wound up being more memorable for chances to connect with other friends, and for the ordeal of interstate road-tripping with the rest of my family, which wearies me even to contemplate at the moment, so I will put that in its own post, later on.
