December archive

The Volunteer State

December 24, 2009

Oh, good ol' Tenneseee. The land of my mother. And her mother. Sortof. We're here in Chattanooga (as an entire family... who knew it could happen!), hanging out and visiting Grandmommy Brock and Mom's side of the family. Luckily for Zeke and I, we actually got to make this trip a visit to both sides of the family.

On the way down, Zeke and I were driving through Charlotte and thought we'd try and meet up with our aunt Reen and uncle Wayne for lunch. After a few calls to the house, and a few calls to our other Charlotte aunt, and home, we finally caught up with Reen, her son and daughter in law and their family, and our other aunt Georgia! It was a brief little visit, but it was fantastic nonetheless. I love seeing and spending time with family. Maybe that makes me cheesy, particularly because I'm just out of college and I think I'm supposed to still be in the "I hate my family; they are embarrassing" phase. But, I'm just not. I love seeing them and spending time with them! And living across the world makes that even more difficult.

That, combined with the fantastic time I've had with my friends over the past week (already a week gone! No! How!?) has made me realize that I need to move back East! I can't, and won't say for sure what the plans for next fall are, but I can tell you now that being this far away from my family won't last forever.

The current ideas for future plans are (in no particular order): Law School? Grad School (public policy, international politics, non-profit managment?)? Massage School (still an option) Culinary School (this is really just an "I want to move to Paris and learn how to cook fantasy) Teaching English abroad, possibly in Spain, Chile, Brazil, Italy or Thailand?

Any other suggestions?