-: TODAY IS MY 6 MONTH :-
“SPAINNIVERSARY”
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Departing SFO with two HUGE suitcases, a carryon, a backpack and a fabulous hat. Gotta travel in style.
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Day 2 in Madrid – long walks after midnight! (I know this, because the lights on that building turning off at 12:00am)
I thought I would share with you a list of the reasons of why I came to Europe. I wrote this in an email to myself during my trans-Atlantic flight.
- Improve my Spanish – Check!
- Have real world firsthand interultural experiences – Check!
- Apply the things that I’ve learned from studying at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication – Check!
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My survival kit:
Map.
Personal Leadership. Cultural Detective.
Receipts for teacher salary budgeting.
Favorite person.
Consciousness management guide.
Lots of pens for doodling.
- Visit my EuroSIICies – Check!
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- Take a course with the Intercultural Development Research Institute in Milan – Check!
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- Visit London again – Check!
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- See Joss, hand deliver the buttons – Check!
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Joss is getting married in August – her friends gave her buttons for a bouquet, mine are handpicked 1970s vintage imports from California…!
- Make friends who live their life in a similar way – Check!
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- Get my career organized – Check, Check, Check!
- Fall in love… WITH MY LIFE! – Check!
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This is my “life doesn’t suck” face.
Looking over that list, for the first time in six months, makes me surprised by myself, because I have done all of them!!! Plus a few extras…
- Published in the March 2013 SIETAR professional intercultural journal
- Hired (translate: paid) to give an intercultural training in April
- Co-presenting a webinar in April, topic is “Interculturalists & Social Media Marketing”
- Visited two new countries – Austria…. and ITALY, and met the love of my life – Venice – muaaahh!
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Me and Venice in Love
- Also did a bit of hopping around Spain!
Trips to: Granada, Segovia, Cadiz, Barcelona, Sevilla and Toledo!
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-: THE NEXT 6 MONTHS :-
- Spring break in Portugal
- Italy in May (The love affair continues…)
- Awaiting replies for a mountain of applications I’ve submitted:
—– Internship at Institute for Global Change in Switzerland
—– Intercultural Summer Academy in Germany
—– Teaching job at a summer camp in Spain
—– Conference workshop proposal for the SIETAR Congress in Estonia
—– Miscellaneous opportunities in London also in the works…
- Grad school continues to be a continual project, possible contenders these days are UK or Finland for September 2014
- Studying Spanish is a key focus as it is really difficult to advance when all day long I am teaching English, and everyone you meet wants to speak in English with you. I’m not going to give up though! Even with my very limited budget, I put 110€ towards Spanish classes each month, its my largest investment aside from rent and food. I won’t give up.
- Fitness has taken a hit these last months. I walk so much therefor stay trim, so allow more excuses about the gym. Yet, still I need the endorphin rush and sweaty workouts to tone up! Summer is on its way and I will be bikini-ready!
- Now that the ball is rolling with things career-wise, my goal is to just keep up with everything!
- And to keep writing
- Follow my gut and heart and just keep living life my way
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