First post of 2023, thanks for reading and supporting! As you can see, I have changed my blog site host again (but fingers crossed it will be for the last time).
January was both busy and boring for me. I went to Paris with my host family and was able to celebrate my birthday with a petit train tour, Moulin Rouge dinner show, seeing a good friend, and meeting a new friend! We started early Friday morning and arrived in Paris just in time for lunch. Then went on our way to take the
This past weekend I finally went on a run, and with a friend!!! He really kept me going if I’m being honest so I was able to run 3 miles (slow but still a win since I haven’t run for months). Our goal is to run a half marathon in May. I’m interested to see how I’ll feel trying for, and then running, my second half.
Lately I feel as if a travel bug has taken residence in my body. I think I’m subconsciously realizing how little time I actually have left in Europe. I won’t finish with my host family until September I have a limited amount of vacation time to use before leaving. I’ll go to Norway and Spain (not the most convenient travel path, I know) during the winter school break that starts in less than a week. There’s another school break in April but I have a feeling I’ll have to work through the whole thing. In May, my host family will go to the States for the third time since I’ve arrived (and I have yet to go back in over a year…oops) and I am planning to meet friends in Barcelona. After that, I’ll go to Greece for a cruise with my host family (very mixed feelings about the fact that I’ll be contributing to such a polluting industry but, at the same time, it’s a free vacation..) And my final trip, at least that I have planned at the moment, will be a music festival in Budapest. Buttttt with this travel bug taking over my mind, I want to do everything that interests me (which is currently just another music festival in Madrid) before going back to the states and potentially getting stuck there. With all these travel plans I have, I also have the realization that I need to return to the states with some money so I can afford to exist and not be stressed while taking part in my friend’s wedding.
It’s just a tough time for my mental processes. I plan on interrogating my friend that I’ll reunite with in Norway about his work as a guided trip leader (if you’re reading this Sean, be warned) before potentially applying for the same job because that could help me travel while also getting paid, a major win in my book. But at the same time, I do have a slight desire to have a home base where I can make my own volleyball leisure team and a more centralized friend group. I’m doing my best to not stress over the details but I’ve grown up needing to always have a plan while also being self-sufficient with my money so it’s a new practice to me to not think about my future. Although, now that I consider it, my life has always happened in phases (completing high school, completing college) and I only thought of what to do next when I was close to reaching the end of whatever phase I was in.
tash's travels 