Four Years In Review
18
- Graduated high school
- Belgium w/Lulu–it was my first trip without parents
- Luxembourg w/Semra–the start of our best friendship, first time either of us hosteled
- Got stranded on the train with nowhere to go, and an almost dead phone–Tobias was my superhero
- Learned how to live in The Netherlands
- Ireland & England w/Sem
- Italy–first time traveling solo to a country I’d never been to nor knew the language
- Finished first year of college before I turned 19
19
- Sacramento & Davis–Greyhound bus experience & Kyle’s freshman dorm
- Random internship w/Lindsay
- Car crash–silently saw our lives flash in front of us while the car was spinning, most beautiful sunset I had ever seen
- Scotland in October: searching for the Northern Lights by myself
- Germany–Welcome Lulu back from her year in New Zealand
- Started Roosevelt Runners w/Emma
- Semra visits California for New Year
- Jumped into the world of dating
- 26 min 5k on 3 hours of sleep from entire weeekend
- Budapest: met some really cool roomies
20
- Early birthday present: Denmark & John Mayer
- Hostel work in Croatia: aged 5 years
- Switzerland–scammed $1,000
- Germany & Lowlands Music Festival w/Emma
- Budapest–Eva, her family, and her dogs
- Disappointed with boys and swear off dating
- Maastricht w/Sem–went down her memory lane from childhood
- Roosevelt Runners host first race & meet Amsterdam Running Junkies
- 10k in Amsterdam that injures my knee for a year
- Iceland w/Maguiña & Emma
- Start podcasting with Mars
- France w/ Maguiña & her extended family
- Walk the Moon concert w/Mars
- Batavieren race: Roosevelt Runners biggest accomplishment before we graduate
21
- Birthday bash at Anneke & Bram’s
- submitted final thesis on Russian Foreign Policy in the Arctic
- Greece w/Sem
- Graduation
- London w/Brooke
- Italy w/Mieke
- Move to Dublin homeless & jobless
- Start dating again
- Understand “real world” of rent, cooking & cleaning
- Foroige–find out I love working with young people
- Move back to California unexpectedly
present
Is this just for a few months and then I’ll head back to The Netherlands? Is this going to last longer than a few months, so I’ll have to think about getting a car? Is this going to be the beginning of a career? Am I going to want to settle? Where will I end up? How will this compare to what I’ve already done? Will I be happy? I have two job interviews and possible legal work experience lined up for me to look into once my plane lands in LAX. I have no idea what’s going to happen next.
