I cannot BELIEVE that I've only been back for a week. The entire week is certainly a blur, but at the same time it almost feels like it's been an eternity since I was in India. I guess being thousands of miles away, 9.5 hours off in time, and busy with work will do that to you.

The first 48 hours of this week really did constitute a blur to rival all blurs. My route took me 9,136 miles from Bangalore to Frankfurt to Philadelphia to New York City to Connecticut to Central Pennsylvania all in that two-day span. I then found myself back in State College a day later getting ready for Blue Band Officers Week these past few days, and that all went really fast, too.

After a summer that's seen me go directly from my last Spring semester final to New York to get my visa, to Budapest, to Rome, to Dublin, back home, and then all throughout India, it's without a doubt been the most exciting summer of my life. Now that I'm back, though, it seems like I just picked up right where I left off in May and have now been chugging right along. Football season is right around the corner, and that means Fall semester will be starting soon, too. I'm excited for both, and am really looking forward to making the most out of my last year at Penn State.

Before I start thinking too much about the fall, though, I just want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who had a hand in making this summer such a success. First off, I need to thank the IST Career Solutions Team and the Honeywell Corporate team for forging this partnership and making this all work from the beginning. I know the recruiting process along with getting all our paperwork/immunizations/plans was not an easy process. Then from Day 1, the Honeywell PKM team in Bangalore was amazing, and my greatest thanks go out to them. So many people with Honeywell from the US side AND the India side made this work, and all of my interactions with them were positive - it really made the transition smooth. One final thank you needs to go out to Dr. Irene Petrick as well for all the amazing opportunities and introductions she brought to the table for us this summer. And then another thank you goes out to all of you: my family and friends who have been reading this and commenting and keeping in touch all summer long. I wasn't sure what this whole blogging thing would be like, but it turned out pretty well, and it was largely because of your support. An extention of that thanks, of course, also has to go out to Penn State Live and any other outlets that picked up portions of my blog for dispatches. I was glad to share my experiences, and hope those of you that followed along enjoyed the ride.

I'm hoping that I'll again find myself roaming the streets of Bangalore, hopefully sooner rather than later. If nothing else, this summer has definitely solidified my love of international project work and my desire to see as much of the world as I can. Thank you all one last time for the support this summer, and if you ever need to contact me, all my information is available on the Contact page. This will be my final entry, so as they say in India, it is never goodbye, it is always "see you again, soon!" :)