Alumni website

The RCNUWC alumni site is something to look at when I'm bored on a Saturday afternoon. It's strange to think some of us are taking a year off, travelling and looking at the world, some of us are doing damn meaningful volunteering in interesting places, and some, like me, are going on studying.

I am in a sense jealous. Jealous of those who are doing something else instead of studying. I wish I could be teaching volleyball or something like that in, say, China, Eastern Europe or something. But then there is always a possibility to do such stuff after university. I can always offer myself to teach Theatre Arts in flekke. I mean, or I could help Pete out if he's still teaching (or... getting pissed off at Operation Daysworks- Vittu, ring any bells? It WAS Operation Dayswork, right?). I don't know. Just that it feels so weird. It's not even nostalgia. It simply feels strange. Looking through the alumni directory I could almost hear those people reading their little note out as if they are telling me stuff face-to-face. I could almost see them- teaching, working, studying, chilling, and terrorizing roads of Finland. It's just so easy to imagine that. While I was looking at the old mugshots of my co-years in the directory, I realized how much people have changed. We just look different- we already look so different from then today. I can't stop thinking about how everyone will look like 9 and a half years later.

It's scary that I was living in the present so hard, so deeply and so alive during those two years.

I should start living in the present. I really should. Instead of inside my head or bottles.