I'm very busy. Why? I’m taking my first trip back to Canada at the end of the week. Never mind that I'm flying BA and there is a potential for serious delays (although my flight is booked in between the strike dates), my mind is filled with questions of what I should bring home in my suitcase (all the pamphlets that I've collected and winter clothing for sure!), what presents I need to buy before I leave (tulips, Dutch tea, chocolate, tulips, liquorice, tulips...), and asking myself why I made myself so busy the last week before I left.
I booked myself solid this week because I think I was trying to pre-empt the worries that might come with being so far away from my field site. I think I felt that if I was super busy right up until the end then I would feel less restless (like I needed to be doing more) when I was too far away to be doing any hands-on researching.
Now that the week has finally arrived, I'm thinking to myself...geez, I wish they had 24 hour shops open here so I could do some of my shopping at night! Anyone know where I can get black tulips? Or something to hang on a wall that is 'typically Dutch'? Or where I can find soft and salty black liquorice?...they seem to be all out at the local grocery store! Ah well, despite the hectic pace my excitement is winning over. I'm going home (notice the use of this word...hmmm...ever the anthropologist)!!!!!
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