The Past, the Present...Now on to an Amazing Future.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Welcome to the real world. tada.
So I decided that it was time to blog again. Ahh, it reminds me of college, a time when life is much much eaiser.Now, two years later I have yet to find the dream job and once again feel ambuished by the unknown.Its so not cool.
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This was my very last post, in my very last blog over a year ago. SO much has happened since then that looking back, I find myself floored by the realm of change. In the past year here is the 30 seconds or less run down on what's happened in this little thing called life:

1. Got my first dream Job-Moved to Indianapolis
2. Got my second dream Job-Moved to San Francisco

That's right folks: A whole lot of moving and shakin' going on. But I guess that's what our 20's are for right?

Looking back, I'm actually thankful for the struggles I had early on. Not only does it make success even that much more gratifying, but I wouldn't have had the life experiences that have shaped me without getting lost for a bit.

Let me set the scene:

2005: an eager Coug graduate, still wiping the Pullman dew off my brow, attending my first professional conference and confident that I'd go home at the end of the week with at least a trillion offers.

Reality: zero offers, tired feet and a hangover from the receptions that lasted into the wee hours.
Well, scrap that. On to Pre-School teacher extrodinare. Maybe I was destined to teach.

Reality: maybe I was not. I have to say, working with kids everyday is one of the most humbling experiences. You are literally watching their minds grow, and helping them see things for the first time in their lives. But then they fight, and they cry and they roll around and sing and dance when it's supposed to be nap time...Check please.

2006: Let's start the year off with a bang and apply to teach English in Japan...Come on, all the cool kids are doing it.

Reality: An amazing, challenging, rewarding, mind boggling, gut wrenching, tongue-twisting, life-changing, thought provoking, self-wallowing, heart-making, first-timing, lost & finding, laughing and giggling, whining and dining year.

(I have Memoirs of a Geisha to thank)

2007: Let's try this little thing called NAFSA again. I was going to give it one more go. I knew I had found my niche and with a little bit of patience, my time would come....holla and I was right.

Reality: An unofficial job offer that eventually fell through, a little more experience and the frustration of sitting by the phone...hoping it would ring...and what do you know...Just when my mom told me I needed to have a back up plan, the phone rang, the job offer came and I was on my way to flat Indianapolis.

2008: Call me Mary Poppins, but the weather's changing and oh what does that mean...yes....another move.

So here I am, three years wiser, not at all richer, but so much happier...let the SF good times roll.