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The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. ”
—Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
It was months ago that this line from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love screamed out at me from the page. A book about the author’s journey across the world - Italy, India, Indonesia - Gilbert discovers the Sanskrit word antevasin and claims it as her own.
If she doesn’t mind, I think I shall do the same. A traveler, a scholar, a border-dweller? Check, check, check. A person who, because of their travels, because of the journey they have chosen, is constantly looking toward the unknown? CHECK.
This blog is begun at a time when I am looking very much toward the unknown.
I’ve just graduated from nursing school. Instead of studying for the NCLEX (nursing liscensure exam) at home with my friends, or perhaps taking time to rest and enjoy my non-student-hood (It’s the first summer in nine years that I don’t have to register for fall classes), I’m packing my bags and heading towards the unknown once again: This time, I’m off to work in Chennai, India for the summer.
(More about my internship with ITCPH soon!)
Here I am, an “in-betweener” yet again: In between my BSN and my MSN; In between nursing school and becoming a registered nurse; In between two cultures, as an American woman living in India.
As I face the unknown on yet another of my journeys, I welcome you to travel with me. Through writing, photographs, and hopefully short videos as well, I’ll document my life as a traveler, a border-dweller… an antevasin.
Come, join me on the border.
It was months ago that this line from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love screamed out at me from the page. A book about the author’s journey across the world - Italy, India, Indonesia - Gilbert discovers the Sanskrit word antevasin and claims it as her own.
If she doesn’t mind, I think I shall do the same. A traveler, a scholar, a border-dweller? Check, check, check. A person who, because of their travels, because of the journey they have chosen, is constantly looking toward the unknown? CHECK.
This blog is begun at a time when I am looking very much toward the unknown.
I’ve just graduated from nursing school. Instead of studying for the NCLEX (nursing liscensure exam) at home with my friends, or perhaps taking time to rest and enjoy my non-student-hood (It’s the first summer in nine years that I don’t have to register for fall classes), I’m packing my bags and heading towards the unknown once again: This time, I’m off to work in Chennai, India for the summer.
(More about my internship with ITCPH soon!)
Here I am, an “in-betweener” yet again: In between my BSN and my MSN; In between nursing school and becoming a registered nurse; In between two cultures, as an American woman living in India.
As I face the unknown on yet another of my journeys, I welcome you to travel with me. Through writing, photographs, and hopefully short videos as well, I’ll document my life as a traveler, a border-dweller… an antevasin.
Come, join me on the border.
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