At the moment, I feel at a loss for concluding words. So much has happened in such a short time, and I am coming away from this experience with a full heart. I am sure it will take the next few weeks to thoroughly process the past two months. All I can say for now is that I am so grateful. Grateful to God, to Summit, to Oxford, and to all the wonderful people I've met along the journey.
"In a way all of us at Oxford knew, knew as an undercurrent in our minds, that it wouldn't last for ever. Lew and Mary Ann expressed it one night by saying: 'This, you know, is a time of taking in--taking in friendship, conversation, gaiety, wisdom, knowledge, beauty, holiness--and later, well, there'll be a time of giving out.' Later, when we were scattered about the world. Now we must store up the strength, the riches, all that Oxford had given us, to sustain us after. She stood there, Oxford, like a mother to us, all with her hands heaped with riches. We could take what we would."
-A Severe Mercy, Sheldon Vanauken (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56594.A_Severe_Mercy)
On another note, things I look forward to in America:
-laundry that takes less than 24 hours
-towel racks
-fabric softeners
-having a car
-Target
-customer service (apparently that doesn't exist here)
-having a freezer
-ice cubes
-not having to share a mini-fridge with 4 girls
-pedestrian manners (or at least, lack of confusion as to which side of the road one is to walk on)
-a working vacuum
-a proper mattress
-London fogs (believe it or not, they don't have these here)
-libraries where you can actually check out your books
-FAMILY AND FRIENDS
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