What? "KENT" ya take it?

When you just "KENT" take the city anymore, where do you go?

Yup.

Kent. 

I love America, don't get me wrong - 

but we've got nothing on the English countryside.

It is a great place to get out of yourself and do things you wouldn't normally do...

such as...

wear your bag on your bum...

struggle to keep up with your 3 white-haired tour guides...

eat lunch with the ducks...

feed some "blind" horses the leftovers from that same lunch...

play a good-ole fashioned game of - well, whatever game the Romans used to play - 

and then...

just breathe...

I got the chance to sit down for a quiet moment with my program director (Rodger)...

He asked about wedding plans...

I asked about his wife....

We talked about the different stages of life.

Hard to believe, most of the students here are not engaged.

(Weird, I know)

I confessed to Rodger that, sometimes, I felt out of sync with the rest of the group

because, I guess, I'm in a different "stage" than they are. 

There is a cute married couple traveling with us though -

they've been married for about 5 months now, 

and it's been so great to see the "stage" that I will be entering into in just a few months.

Rodger went on to talk about the future stages to look forward to...

the graduating college stage,

the buying your first house stage,

the having your first baby stage, 

the losing your first job stage,

the watching your children grow up stage,

the learning how to be both parents and friends stage,

the struggling to let children go stage,

and the getting-old with each other stage...

Now I'm not saying that I can't have me some fun with these hoppin' single ladies!

But I'm excited to close the door on one stage and begin another...

but to always be young at heart...