The First

And here we go.

I have been thinking about starting a blog for some time and it seems that time has now come. I am about to embark on what I hope will be one of the major events of my life. One of those experiences that I will look back on in years to come and think a combination of fondness and “what the crap was I thinking?” I have trouble knowing what the crap I'm thinking generally, and I often just choose to just keep going along with it.

You see, I am about to move from my nice, cozy, homogenous Southern Manitoba town to Istanbul, Turkey. A place that can fit the entire population of Manitoba thirteen times over. A place that has a heterogeneity all its own. A place where the temperature does not go above 30 or below 0. Yes, what the crap am I thinking indeed. Maybe over the course of the next year I will figure that out here, in this most public of forums.

My hope for this blog is to be a chronicle of my next year. I'm not sure what the posts will be like, as I have never done anything like this before. But I hope that I can share a bit about what I'm doing, and, God willing, anything that I might learn along the way.

I leave in 8 days.