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July 6, 2002
Reflections
You have stumbled across the little corner of the World Wide Web spun by Charlotte! Welcome to my website! Many of you are visiting here because I sent you an e-mail annoucing the birth of my little experiment in technological creativity, and others may have found it by happenstance. Regardless, I am glad to share my experiences with my friends, both old and new alike. The primary purpose of this site is to chronicle my upcoming experience as a Fulbright fellow to Sweden.

In six short weeks, I will go to the airport in San Francisco, accompianed by my overstuffed luggage, and will get on a plane which will land in Stockholm. In the next six weeks, I will hopefully absorb enough Swedish vocabulary and grammar that I will be able to fumble through grocery purchases and banking transactions. Of course, I can do all of this in English, but I don't want to. I am looking forward to meeting in person friends who have been my Swedish e-mail pals, and I will see again many friends who have been on the opposite side of the Atlantic. I have a lot of very exciting things to look forward to in the near future, yet I have left a lot behind. After a conversation with one of my best friends in Seattle this evening, I was filled with a bit of nostalgia and melancholy that the Seattle chapter of my life is now closed for the moment. Once again, I am leaving. I have done this before, and here it is two years later. My life has been blessed with interesting and amazing people, many of whom will be part of my life for a long time. I am anxious and excited for what the next few months will hold in store for me.