The Beginning

Well, here I am.
     7 months after I sat on lovely L's bed and we made the decision to join the blogging bandwagon together, I am finally writing my first post (while L has been blissfully blogging away for 7 months).  Let me share a  bit about me.  I am 24 and currently living in London, England where I am a graduate student.  My blog name is how I currently would best describe myself--since my senior year of college, I have lived in Nashville, Tennessee; Boston, Massachusetts; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and now, London, England.  While I love these cities dearly and am eternally grateful for the opportunities that I have had to experience different places and cultures, I am starting to feel a bit..nomadic.  For instance, I rushed to the store this weekend to look for a birthday card for a friend and had two immediate thoughts: 1) I don't know where to go to get greeting cards (I wish I did) and 2) Wouldn't it be nice to have a collection of  cards that I could add to when I found ones that I liked and pick and choose from when I wanted to send a card?
     It's not like there is anything wrong with the process of getting to know a new city--it actually is quite exciting and rewarding-- a new friend and I recently coined a small cafe our "breakfast spot" and it brought me one step closer to being at home-- but  when you've resettled for the third time in three years, it can get a little tedious and, as a result, I have started to yearn for consistency and dream about "settling" somewhere and "nesting".

However, here I am, in London, England, and as I try to remind myself, this is an AMAZING journey and five years down the line, when I am "settled" and "nested" I will surely look back and say, why was I so eager to shelve this adventure!?

So this is going to be my working testimony to:
1) documenting experiences
2) being thankful for excitement and happiness but also being thankful for hardships and disappointment, for these experiences shape us as well
3) reflecting on the past, enjoying the present and looking forward to the future:)

Lastly, I will leave you with some words(not my own) that encourage and inspire me:

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”--Marcel Pagnol