Introduction

Hello everyone!  Hope your break is going well.  Mine has been busy (we hosted Christmas dinner at my house for 36 of our family members about a week after moving into a remodeled kitchen.  Yikes!) but it's been nice.  Anyway, just a quick introduction to start things off.  My name is Tamara (rhymes with "camera") and I'm a senior Music Education major on the Princeton campus.  We never had much money to travel, but it's always been something I've wanted to do, so I've been trying to grab every opportunity I can.  When I heard about this trip, the price, and the fact that it counted for credits for a class that I still needed to take, it was a no brainer.  But there's more to it than just a well-priced trip.  Coming from a really Ukrainian family, culture has been a huge part off my life, but I've realized that as a kid I spent so much time stuck in my own culture and not enough time learning about others' cultures.  In the past few years I've almost become obsessed with culture and wonder why I didn't major in multicultural studies!  :-P  Anyway, through this trip I'm hoping to learn a lot about a place I really know nothing about.  I've already learned a ton before even going!  Anyhow, looking forward to going on this adventure with all of you!

Happy packing!

Tamara