i'm done with my first year of law school.
i don't think it has set in yet. i'm so glad to be finished though. these past few weeks were some of the most stressful i can remember. it also didn't help that as soon as i was done with exams, i spent two days frantically packing up my life and putting it in storage, and then cleaning my place so i could check out -- i basically didn't eat or sleep for a few days. it was far more exhausting than my exams, even though it wasn't as mentally difficult. i'm surprised i made it through without collapsing, and now i'm just trying to not get sick.
i stopped in chicago for the weekend, which was really nice, and now i'm home in dallas. my plan is to rest and get ready to go to india for the summer. for those of you who don't know, i'm going to be working as a legal intern at a human rights NGO in new delhi. i leave in two weeks and i don't feel ready at all. i've never been to asia, so i'm really excited, but i'm also slightly apprehensive about going by myself and figuring out how to live there. everyone keeps warning me about the heat, the disease, the harassment, the inevitable delhi belly. hopefully growing up in texas, vaccines, living in new york, and medication will help me deal with each of those things, respectively. i have plenty to do before i go, but i think sleeping is at the top of my list right now. and eating good tex-mex probably comes in somewhere in the top 10 -- i never really feel like i'm home until i've had good queso and sopapillas.
and still... wow. i'm done with my first year of law school.
Posted by naseem at May 15, 2006 11:01 AMCongratulations!!!!!
It was the highlight of my weekend seeing you. I love you naseem joon!
Posted by: lacey at May 15, 2006 03:00 PMCongratulations, Nas!!! I am proud of you for making it through! (You're a better person than I am, 'cause I couldn't have done it.)
Posted by: +mojan. at May 15, 2006 09:44 PMI knew you could do it, Nazzy. I'm so proud of you.
And I've just been relegated to "those of you who don't know." How sad is that?
And how exciting is INDIA?!
Posted by: george at May 15, 2006 09:50 PMcongrats!!!!! beware of monkeys stealing things from you. when my dad was there last, one of his coworkers had her plane ticket stolen by a monkey. i hear they are like squirrels over there. well, squirrels who steal.
Posted by: meisa at May 16, 2006 10:45 AMYay for Naseem!
Congrads on first year completion.
And India, how exciting!
It will definetly be inimaginably hot during the summer there (in the summer many farmers near there work from 3-8 am and then stop because of the heat), but I've heard some amazing things about the friendliness and warm heartedness of the culture and people. India is one of the places my heart yearns to go to someday.