In honor of a week in which I have spent too much time being afraid about my inability to complete a number of relatively simple tasks needed for graduation, a list of reasonable and unreasonable fears I have about Thailand:
Reasonable fears:
-something bad will happen to my dad or someone else and I won't know or be able to get home in time
-my reservedness will cause me to miss out on interesting opportunities
-my placement will be overwhelmingly stressful and not enjoyable and challenging
-I'll run out of time to see all the things I want to see
Unreasonable fears:
-the little Thai children will assume my haircut means that I am a boy and tell me such, in Thai
-my boyfriend will forget about me and fall in love with someone else
-I'll run out of time to see all the things I want to see (of course this will happen! I want to see everything!)
-swimming in the dark
-being bitten by something rabid or stung by a scorpian
These lists are both shorter than I thought, which is reassuring.
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rabid things!! i was totally afraid of rabid things before i went to morocco (i mean.. also during, and also after, even though i never saw anything rabid). like.. debilitatingly so. so much so that i would draw rabid dogs all over my class notes in rosie's classes!! i think, now that i am not having abroad-fears myself, that having fears is a good sign, because it means you're preparing. in my case, none of the bad things i thought would happen happened (death, destruction, bad cell phone reception) - but 8 new things i didn't think of actually worried me (like sleeping with 3 people 3 feet away from me all the time, or eating 10 pounds of sugar in my tea thrice daily while not being able to brush my teeth as often as i would like..) - but i know how capable and also good-humored you are. also, it is amazing what you can get used to if everyone around you pretends it's normal. the not-being-able-to-get-home-in-time scenario still worries me in minnesota. :(
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