Well... Crap.

When I first got here, it was cold. 

I felt weird using a someone else's toilet.

I couldn't sleep under someone else's sheets.

I got excited every time I saw a McDonalds, because it felt like home. 

And I was a lonely girl with cold finger tips and a scarf that I didn't know how to tie. 

I thought, for a few days, I didn't like traveling much after all. 

I thought, for a few days, I was more of a vacation girl. 

But today, under the warmth of the 20 degrees in Celsius sun (whatever that means), I took my camera to a museum and a park. 

And I wandered the halls looking at paintings by Van Gough and by Monet. By Goya and by some kid from Pennsylvania. 

I got lost in the rivers of Venice, Italy, in the countryside of France, in the history of Spain and in the cathedrals of Rome. 

And then I wandered through the parks of Argentina, taking pictures of everything, with or without knowing their significance. 

And suddenly, I wanted to learn everything. 

I wanted to know why that statue of the naked cupid people was sitting in that park. 

I wanted to know how Monet knew that his blobs of paint would look like a pond of lilies from far away. 

I wanted to know what gelato tastes like when they it's handmade in Italy. 

I wanted to know what New York feels like at night. 

I wanted to know how they treat English-only speaking Americans in France. 

And what the sand feels like in Greece. 

I wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef through my own pair of scuba diving goggles. 

And watch Tahitian dancers in Tahiti. 

I want to know why they dance like that in Tahiti. What's behind the hips that, seriously, shake it like a salt shaker.

I want to ride a camel in Egypt. 

And then go to the movie theaters there, with some kids my age.

I want to talk to people in their native language. 

And hang out with them in their home town. 

I want to stand under their sun. 

And let them measure it in Celsius or Farenheit or Kelvin.

And then I want to thank them, for letting me visit. 

Because people all around this world are so great. 

I have a lot of work to do.

There's so much I need to learn about this world.