My Sweden Story - Diary Entry number 1
19th January 2012:
It is nine days short of three months that I have been here and I have not yet written down a single word. So much for my resolution to pen a memoir of my Swedish Sonata.
But here I am finally and it is this first step which demands the maximum effort. For I have seen time and again, that once I cross this major hurdle of penning the first sentence, I,kind of, rediscover the flow. Hopefully I haven't lost that touch. Also, as always, my memory which is pretty much cent per cent accurate when it comes to all things apart from studies and now office work, will help me out here.
So.. "Let's start at the very beginning...a very good place to start.."
29th October 2011...a date to remember. I was scared, nervous, excited, jittery, apprehensive and homesick even before leaving home. I was going through such a gamut of emotions once my travel date was finalized. It was indeed a restless period. This was one huge step for me - moving out of home, being far away from my family, uprooting myself from a place I have never ventured out of (of course, vacations don't count here!), learning to live all by myself in a foreign land. Sometimes I wondered whether I could at all accomplish this, whether I was capable enough. The warm sense of familiarity is one comfort that is immensely difficult to let go.
P.S: 18th February 2012.
As I can see, a sense of chronology is something that will be very hard to find in these posts. I am finally publishing a post that has been in a draft form for over a month now. See, there goes up in smoke my dreams of an alternate career, this is why I can never ever be a writer!
But then again, what the heck, this is my blog and my story, I will write it the way I can. What counts is 'doing' it - imparting a sense of tangibility to the myriad exhilarating experiences that have, till now, been in my mind all along.
" Lyckligt skrivning " - Happy Writing!!!
It is nine days short of three months that I have been here and I have not yet written down a single word. So much for my resolution to pen a memoir of my Swedish Sonata.
But here I am finally and it is this first step which demands the maximum effort. For I have seen time and again, that once I cross this major hurdle of penning the first sentence, I,kind of, rediscover the flow. Hopefully I haven't lost that touch. Also, as always, my memory which is pretty much cent per cent accurate when it comes to all things apart from studies and now office work, will help me out here.
So.. "Let's start at the very beginning...a very good place to start.."
29th October 2011...a date to remember. I was scared, nervous, excited, jittery, apprehensive and homesick even before leaving home. I was going through such a gamut of emotions once my travel date was finalized. It was indeed a restless period. This was one huge step for me - moving out of home, being far away from my family, uprooting myself from a place I have never ventured out of (of course, vacations don't count here!), learning to live all by myself in a foreign land. Sometimes I wondered whether I could at all accomplish this, whether I was capable enough. The warm sense of familiarity is one comfort that is immensely difficult to let go.
P.S: 18th February 2012.
As I can see, a sense of chronology is something that will be very hard to find in these posts. I am finally publishing a post that has been in a draft form for over a month now. See, there goes up in smoke my dreams of an alternate career, this is why I can never ever be a writer!
But then again, what the heck, this is my blog and my story, I will write it the way I can. What counts is 'doing' it - imparting a sense of tangibility to the myriad exhilarating experiences that have, till now, been in my mind all along.
" Lyckligt skrivning " - Happy Writing!!!
Glad to see you writing this (unlike me who never managed 'an ode to homeleaving' :P). Write it like the movie '21 grams', let the reader make out which happened when. :)
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