A Field Guide to Getting Lost

In English class we are just starting to read A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. Since my blog counts as my personal journal, I have to do a reflection of my thoughts on the first chapter. So here we go. And I will try as much as possible to reflect it back to Spain for those of you who might lose interest in this post. (It's okay if you do, no hard feelings.)
A quote that really stood out to me was "Go to hell, but keep moving once you get there, come out the other side." No, this quote didn't just stand out because it has a swear, but because it reminded me of a country song that goes something like, "If you're going through hell, keep on moving; don't slow down. If you're scared, don't show it. You might get out if the Devil doesn't know you're there." This hits me because my first week in Spain was probably one of the hardest weeks I've ever had to just push through. I knew in the end it was going to be okay, but it was really hard to leave everything I was used to and "get lost" in this new city of Zaragoza with these "new souls" that I had never met before and might not have even had anything in common with expect the fact that we were all going through the same thing at the same time with the same people in the same place. We were all lost, but we had a guideline for where we were going.
That's kind of how I feel that I can connect to this book. I haven't officially gotten lost yet here, and very rarely do I get lost back home. As my Dad would say, I'm his star navigator. So if I get lost, that's not really a good thing. He rarely gets lost, too, so maybe that's where I get it from!
Right now, I don't feel lost anymore. I feel like I have found my way and I am living in that light at the end of the tunnel. I absolutely love it here and I couldn't have pictured how amazing this journey was because it's so much more than I ever thought it would be, despite how many people were trying to tell me otherwise. I would get lost any day just to learn more about myself and about my surroundings. I WANT to get lost so I can go on an adventure and have no idea where I'm going to end up and not have to worry about planning to have fun because getting lost and going on that kind of adventure is spontaneous! I want to learn more about myself by learning more about this city. I think the two go hand in hand.