Written By OEs, Ryan & Lauren
Standing in a semi-circle on top of a small hill half a world away from the country where we first met, the 14 of us gazed out into the milieu of yellow, orange, pink, purple, white, and blue permeating the skies and our faces alike. The setting sun’s rays hit us, and we forgot to think of the distant lands that sun was heading towards — forgot to think of the different lives we were each in 5 days ago, forgot to think about the pasts of our individual journeys that brought each of us here. Soaked in the aura of the scene and the serenity of a small corner of the world that has marked the start of countless other Carpe semesters — we breathed in unison the foreign air that now connected us as one group in one moment in the great history of so many other past and future humans who have walked and will walk this same journey that we now embark on.