It feels like yesterday I was just coming back from Greece.. that dream. I can honestly say that I have thought about that adventure every single day for the past year and a half and the memories haven't faded. For a long while it was tough- missing the friends and the feelings and the fun. But after telling the stories too many times and trying to convey how magical the trip really was, time has turned the Greece trip into a beautiful memory in my heart that will never be forgotten or repeated :)
After Greece I was back in BOULDER for Sophomore Year. Jess and I lived together again in the dorms (we had a job with a Residential Academic Program blahhh blahh we weren't RA's). A combination of post-trip depression and the loss of a good friend turned the year into a complicated growing experience that I am certainly glad to be done with, but thankful for the lessons it taught me. And hey it wasn't all bad- I was a ski bum AND went skydiving for the first time!!! SUCCESSSSS :) The year ended with me coming back to San Antonio in need of some serious home time. I got a job at a Child Center at the massive health club/fitness center/gym whatever thing by our house and it was awesomee and so fun and so great being around kids and babies all the time. I spent my summer leading dodgeball games and wiping kids noses and trying unsuccessfully to be a disciplinarian. The Texas sun and the silliness at the Child Center and of course my family healed me up nice and good sooooo I went to Boulder for my Junior year a new, happier Chelsea ready for rocky mountain adventures once again! And so it was. These past few months I lived in an old frat house right in the center of Boulder with 25 other of the craziest, most hilarious girls I have ever met. Living in that house was wild. I roomed with a girl on my field hockey team named Maddie who never stopped adventuring and fiesta-ing and living the wonderful Boulder life!! We had such a good time this semester. I made the greatest of friends in the house and ahhh it was just blissful. Australians, slip n slides, dubstep, 2000 jello shots. yup. boulder. i will miss your energy.
SOOOOOOOO now I am here laying in my bed in San Antonio, Texas waiting for this next new chapter to beginnn!!!! I've been working all break at the Child Center and doing a whole bunch of nothing (besides swing dancing with the grandma sandy and watching lots of lord of the rings). I fly tomorrow from San Antonio to Minneapolis to Paris and finally to Madrid. Thanks to all that inclement weather on the east coast my flights got cancelled this morning and I had a lovely few hours on hold with Delta trying to get it all sorted out. But it diddd! So I'm going to MADRIDDDD!! MADRID. the capital of Spain and all things Spanish. I've heard its like the NYC of Spain?? This could be good news for me since new york has always been my favorite place since I was in the womb. Anyways, I'll be on a program with 15 other kids from all over the United States, living in a homestay, and going to a spanish university called the Universidad Carlos 3 de Madrid. Successs. I have no word of who I will be living with yet so that will be interesting indeed. Ill be speaking lots of spanish and having lots of fun.. and studying lots as well!!! SCHOOOL :) Many of my friends from CU are studying abroad this semester, but none in Madrid.. soooo it will be my lovely little solo adventure... until I make some friends. Then after Spain I plan to do some traveling.. to where I do not know. Maybe Austria, Hungary, Croatia?? Maybe to Greece to visit some friends I met in a dream one time?? Maybe anything! And I'd love to be in Spain this summer for the Running of the Bulls!!!! I've been saving and saving since the day I returned from Greece so we will see how the cash holds up. I won't be eating for the next six months lets just say that.
SOOOOOOOOOOOO, i hope this gives all of you a brief insight into my life and whats been happening since my last time in Europa. My Spanish adventure begins...
VALIENTE!!!
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