Last Friday I submitted a final assignment for a class, I am now in that very blissfully ignorant time between end of class and getting the final mark. I imagine by early next week that bliss will have ended and I will be proud of my accomplishment or finding out why I did not nail down my understanding of the assignment – questioning what did I miss.

My new class started a couple of days ago, Product and Market Innovation – some of the readings have been brilliant and others well, I feel asleep reading them. Regardless I am looking forward to the opportunity to explore tourism innovation, learn more and just keep going forward.

I am finding it hard to post to my blog when I am writing my assignments- it is like my brain switches off the ability to write narratively while I am focusing on the academic. To combat this weird phenomena of flipping between two distinct writing styles I am dedicating Saturday and Sundays as me time – writing what I like, and the way I like it!

In rereading that line, writing what I like, and the way I like it, I can measure how I have changed, how far forward I have moved from where I was 1 year ago. When I see how important getting back to me, to finding the parts of me that were shuttered up for so long, back to the writer, the dreamer, the traveller, who I was – I wondered why I took so long. And equally as fast I realize, I had to have those experiences, I had to have the lessons that life handed me, good, and bad those lessons added to me. Those lessons made me ready for now, created within me a perfect setting to embrace once again, that cool little girl, who dreamt big dreams.

Write what I like and the way I like it…yup overly sentimental, fluffy stuff, maybe never going to change the world, but right now it is what I like and the way I like it. I am going forward, the way I like and I am liking the way I am.