Will I ever stop posting? Nope.

Can I just say how very excited I am to live the rest of my life?
The next ten years are going to be great.

Next year I plan on studying abroad (hopefully in either Buenos Aires, Mexico City, or a city in Spain). I'll either be there for a semester or a year, but most likely a semester. While there I plan on taking French. It's a lofty goal, I know, but I really want to be trilingual by the time I finish my undergraduate studies.
that will leave me with one year left at UW, and then i graduate with a BA in Creative Writing! Woo!!

Then I plan on immediately taking a break from college. When I graduate I will travel to Montreal for at least a week and talk to advisors at McGill University. If you've never heard of this school, it's considered the Harvard of Canada. it's way cool and very innovative. Plus, it's way cheaper. It funds a ton of it's students and makes it really easy for international students to afford it.
montreal is also a super cheap city to live in! relatively, speaking, that is. hopefully during this week i'll go with my parents for to Montreal as some sort of graduation gift from them, but if they don't want to get it for me, I'm taking a greyhound! I just need to know the city before i make complete plans.

then, after that week, (i will have already applied my fourth year of college in Seattle) I will immediately join the Peace Corps. (I may join Amnesty International, though. not sure yet). They make you stay in a country for 26 months. Goodbye 2+ years of my life! I want to teach little kids. it would be so much fun. I would prefer going to a Latin American country, but eastern Europe has sparked my interest lately.

I'm not doing it for the money, but by joining, when you get home the PC gives you about $3000 so you can set up your life back in the states. By this time i'll be about 24 years old. I may be 25.
With that money, which isn't that much, I will move to Montreal and (hopefully with the right advising from when I visited 2 years ago) I will start my post graduate studies at McGill for two years. I'll live in an apartment and get a Visa so I can work and afford school.
Montreal will be my home for 2 years at least! (that is, if I like it from when i visit it after i graduate)

What's cool about montreal is everything. hopefully Caitlin (who is my best friend in the whole wide world) will be living in NYC by then too. NYC is only about a 2.5 hour bus ride from Montreal. We can visit each other a lot.

When I graduate from McGill with my MA, i will move either to wherever Caitlin is, or wherever my parents are. Hopefully Caitlin will still be living in NYC and we can live together in the big city. I'll be 27.
Aren't we gonna be cute when we live together?


By 29 or 30, I will move to either Madrid, Copenhagen, back to Montreal, or I will stay in NYC.
hopefully it will be either Madrid of Copenhagen. These are two cities I'm absolutely obsessed with. i'll settle in by then and live my life!

I need a job that allows me to move a lot.
But ya, the next ten years of my life are going to be great.

this was a long post and i doubt any of you read it all. but still! i'm excited.