I just received my first passport via snail mail this past weekend and I am ecstatic! I now have a newfound freedom contained in the palm of my hands. As long as I have a few dollars, my passport and an open mind, I am geographically boundless. Oh, I’ve traveled before to several states, Bermuda, and Mexico (before passports were mandated), but this gives me access to so much more.
I am multiethnic – African-American (which all on it’s on could be considered multiethnicJ) and African. My paternal roots are buried in the warm soil of Nigeria and I am a first generation Nigerian here in America. I feel it is now time for me to visit my other home and this passport will help facilitate that. The trip is scheduled for the end of December, during winter break. This will be the first of many overseas escapades and I am sure I will have many interesting stories to share with you.
I have finally taken the first step to chronicle this next stride on my life’s path. It’s been many months in the making, so there are so many events and reactions and emotions that have not been captured in real time, but I will do my best to weave them throughout future commentary.
There are a lot of new moving pieces in my life, like being accepted to business school, preparing for that transition, a budding relationship, and an internship in marketing. Accordingly, my goal with this virtual journal is to record as many of these moments as possible so I can reflect on where I was and how I have developed as a person because of those events. The irony of all of this though is that growing up I have never liked journaling, but for some reason I just cannot shake my desire to want to do this. And so my chronicling journey begins.
Well, that is enough for my intro. I now have to head out. I am off to my uncle’s store to take more pictures of his merchandise. My internship does not begin until 3/17, so I have given myself a new pet project to create an online presence for his store. I am super excited about it and he’s been a bit resistant with showing his excitement, but he’s coming around. J
Until next time…
