Excellent News!
The show must go on! At least that's what I've been told and I was very excited to hear this morning that it now applies to JYA. The show will continue for an extra episode after all of us (well minus the few are abroad for a year) are back in the states next month. I also received word from the network that those of us going home over the next couple of weeks are going to be interviewed about our experiences traveling and making the show on MSNBC. I'm so overwhelmed right now that I don't think I can concentrate on studying Jimmy Carter's foreign policy toward Iran in the late 1970s! (Not like I needed the added distraction, anyway.)
Naturally, this news brought up some mixed feelings for me. What would good news be without a little Jewish guilt, right? I have to ask now if any of you have been turned off by reading about my fantastic experiences. Perhaps this is the wrong audience for me to post such a question since you never would have found your way to my blog if you weren't interested. However, I love doing all of this stuff. It is, for me, the ultimate excitement and, like I've said countless times before, I am both my proud of my work and extremely grateful for the opportunities I've received that helped make it all happen. Maybe I'm naive but I believe a huge part of the excitement is being able to share it with friends and people that are close to me. I don't want to hear that people are jealous or think I'm bragging. That's not what I'm about. I want my friends to be as excited for me as I am for myself since I know there's nothing more dejecting than expecting enthusiasm from a friend and not getting it. I'm not talking about running around blathering about my success to everyone I encounter because, if I did that, I'd deserve the eye-rolling and fake smile most people would give upon having to pretend that they actually care. I don't know. Maybe I just need to lower my expectations a smidge and be more selective about who I let into my life...
Sigh. Comments, anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Ok, well, to top off this blog about excellent news, I heard the other day that the Wiggles, Australia's most famous boy band, graduated from Macquarie. I'm not talking about recently, I'm saying that just as I tell visitors on the Rutgers tours that Calista Flockhart and Milton Friedman are graduates of our school, Macquarie has a claim to fame and it's the Wiggles. I've also been talking to a few Aussie friends here who are interesting at studying abroad at Rutgers and, as hard as it is for me to spare the tour guide shpiel, I obviously voice my opinion in support of this unbelievably excellent idea. I'll be disappointed if I never see any of my Australian friends again after this semester and, if they were to come to New Jersey, I'd be able to play proud New York City tour guide and show my fellow New Jerseyans that not all Aussies are just like Crocodile Dundee.
Please leave me feedback on this one, guys. Especially my fellow JYA cast, I'm curious to know about the reactions you've gotten from people about the success of the show. Finally, if you want to leave a post wishing my cousin Jennifer congratulations on her pregnancy, that's cool too. I'll make sure she gets the message.
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Hey Helen! I don't know when the MSNBC interview is happening yet but it should be sometime in the next couple of weeks. If I were you, I'd subscribe to the JYA newsletter since i'm sure the info will be in there. Also, as far as I know, the interviews will be done separately since we're all on different schedules. Thanks for watching!
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