Exploring Endeavors Abroad

What does it take to move half way across the globe without to a place you have never been before? A lot, but most of it is just guts. To be honest most things in life are closer than they seem but I have always found myself more paralyzed with fear more of the idea of the thing than the thing itself. What was different about time I ahve always wondered but recently it hit me.

I didn’t think about it. I literally just did it.

Any of those thoughts like “Oh I can’t do it”, “What will people think about me completely changing my life”, “This isn’t what people expect of me”, and all that jazz. It has been repeated so many time that is truly is a clique, but let me say this, why is it so crazy for people to change? Wouldn’t it be a shame if we were frozen in time for the rest of our lives? What got me to move to Italy was realizing that I was heading for exactly that.

Don’t get me wrong, living in Arizona was great but the ocean that it felt like when I first arrived from Minnesota in 2011 started to feel like a kiddy pool. Luckily in 2017 I was able to travel to Marche, Italy for a month of intense language study. Turned out that, yes I did fall in love during my trip, with Italy of course. So it guess ultimately I did move for love as I had never felt more at home.

It truly has been a difficult time when it comes to finding a job, jumping through hoops of immigrating to a new country, and even just trying to remember the complicated trash system, but it makes it all that much better.

So here I am, able to write to you five years after moving to Italy back in 2018 with my own English Center to hopefully to encourage others the take similar chances.