[THE PITCH: Blog 4] After my extended trip to Jacksonville, Fla., Nashville Tenn., and Helsinki, Finland, I was uncharacteristically exhausted and theatricallyglum. Considering just how much I had enjoyed my time stateside, there was only one reason for my melancholy. Jetlag … DUH! I fled into my bedroom, shut of the lights, and with a maniacal grin,turned on mindless television for hours at a stretch under the pretense of “resting” and “recovering.” Yet somehow I still overslept three days in a row! (Much to theastonishment of my little penguin housemate, who was kind enough to wake me up just in the nick of time for training.) However, as I unpacked and attempted to settle back into my home and routine, Irealized I had just 10 days until my next trip to Algarve, Portugal.
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