le beginning

i've decided to pick up the whole blogging thing again
we'll see how it goes. and by how it goes i mean how much time i waste doing this.

i just got back from mexico and arizona and it was a hell of a trip. we did a lot of stuff that has made me think, cry, laugh, wish, anger, shiver, smile, and all kinds of things. there were so many events and issues presented. we went to learn more about immigration and the border and living in mexico and so many other issues, some pertaining only to me, some to the whole group, some to the whole world, came up. i thought a lot about the obvious issues of immigration, and i'll go into more about that later, but i also thought a lot about my future. and where i'll be and what i'll do. i thought a lot about my plans to transfer. i've been getting so excited about warren wilson. but this week on the border made me think, yet again, about taking a year off. i admitted, yet again, that if i did that i'd never return to school so school it is for now. so then i started getting excited about all the things i can do while in school. both still at pc and at wwc the next few years. and over the summers. but i also got frustrated with how i haven't done as much as i could and should have been doing while at pc. i'm in a weird mental state that i can't quite describe. it's been an incredible time spending a week being involved with a passion of mine. border issues and similar things have always been in interest/concern of mine but i didn't fully realize how serious i am into this until this week. it felt great being in every town we stayed in. agua prieta was a great community and i enjoyed being there, but the morning we spent in nogales was something else. the city made me so sad yet still enthusiastic about the possibility of getting involved with that community. the whole time i pictured myself walking through the town and up and down the mountains.

i feel like my thoughts right now aren't really getting to any kind of conclusion. more on mexico is soon to come. i'll have to right a reflection paper about the trip and the course at some point so i'm gonna get stuff down on here to refer to later on. genius, i know.


i'll finish up with some ray lamontagne lyrics:
don't put your trust in walls
cause walls will only crush you when they fall
be here now, here now