thoughts from krakow
Five days ago I took a train by myself for the first time in my life. And two days ago I managed to make it from one European country to another by myself for the first time (if you need it, now is the moment for applause for Linden not getting lost or dying! Although I did totally not realize one of my trains was a connecting train.. so I did think I was very lost for a brief period of time... and that I might die.. but I didn’t!!) When I go home to the states in nine days I will be a very different person than when I set out at the beginning of the month. In the midst of all my travels lately I’ve been thinking a lot about experiential learning. No matter how many times you explained public transport to me a month ago I wouldn’t have really understood how to get on the right train until I tried and messed up and succeeded in a tangible, experiential, way (which involved a confused train steward yelled at me in Czech that this was, indeed t...