My name is Jessica and this blog is all about me figuring my life out.
I graduated from university in Washington, DC in May of 2011. After graduation, my best friend and I decided that we were going to pack up our lives and spend the next year working in Santiago, Chile and traveling around South America.
I spent my summer teaching myself Spanish and learning to love empanadas. Two weeks before we were set to leave, I get a phone call saying that she got cold feet and was pulling out of the trip.
With just a one way ticket and a backpack, I found myself suddenly panicked and without a clue of what I would do. A cartoon Dora spoke better Spanish than I did, I knew nothing of South America and I had quite dramatically lost my best friend.
Heartbroken, but excited, I left for Santiago. I had an amazing ten days traveling around and visiting friends, but I knew it wasn't what I wanted or where I wanted to be.
I jumped on a flight home with a newfound determination to pack up my life again and move to Israel, a dream which I had harbored for the last four years.
Upon arriving in the States in September, I started working on my paperwork to move abroad. I had arranged for my passport, military services, bank accounts... everything. And then I met a boy.
And you know that saying about how love comes "when you least expect it?" Well, it's true. And as I waited for my flight to Israel, we somehow fell in love.
I then spent two agonizing weeks trying to figure out what I was going to do. Was I going to stick to my original plan and move to Israel and lose out on a potential love? Or stick around to see where this would lead?
Well, many Excel pro and con sheets later and lots of sleepless nights and I decided to follow my heart and stay in Massachusetts. And for the first time in five years, I finally decided to settle down and call somewhere home.
Now all I need to do is find a job, get an apartment, figure out how car payments work, learn how to support myself on an entry level job, try to find friends in the area and make myself a community and navigate my way through a blossoming relationship. Basically, I need to Figure It Out.
