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Welcome, my friends, to my world: a place that never sits still, a place that is always looking towards the mysterious and the exotic, a place that never sleeps.

 

Three summers ago, I began with Valencia, Spain, a place of blue roses, street mimes, colorful trees, friendly people, and delicate history.  I was to study Spanish at the Universitat di Valencia, and found myself traveling throughout the Andalusian countryside in a state of constant pertenencia (or, belonging).  I fell into a deep world of understanding and appreciation like I had not found in Atlanta, my home, and I decided that my destiny lie in uncovering the secrets hidden within our human experience.  I would go on to live in Sliema, Malta, where I would be a foreign group leader at an English summer school to a bunch of international students and have the international experience of a lifetime.  In between, I traveled the chain of islands that make up the Maltese archipelago, climbed Mount Etna, tasted Sicilian wine, and toasted to life in London.

 

I spent my last year feverishly engaged in my last year at the University of Georgia, studying courses in both Spanish and Comparative Literature (the root of my wanderlust at its best!) After graduating, I stayed for the summer to spend time with those important to me, and took on two jobs in order to save money. But come August, I will be again leaving the United States of America, in search of something interesting and worthy. I will be going to Cartagena, Colombia, a port city on the Caribbean coast, to teach English at the Universidad Tecnologica de Bolivar. This will be my space, dedicated to my family, (especially my mother, who gave me my wings!) and to those both here and abroad, that have helped me realize my dreams.

 

To mom, dad, Elizabeth, Chris, Rachel, Nicole, Lindsey, Mary, Melissa, the 2004 Maltese group leaders, Bailey, and Bluey.