Time is ticking down until my big move to Mexico! I still haven't set an exact day (who is really surprised?) but it'll be the first week of August or so, August 9th at the latest. Octavio is going to culinary school in Xalapa and since I have no idea what I want to do now that I'm graduated I decided I'd make the move to Mexico for the 2 years he's in school also. I can put my Spanish major to use and (fingers crossed!) hopefully become fluent because, let's be honest, some of the things I learned with my Spanish major don't really come in handy in the real world (how often am I really going to use the word "deforestation" in daily conversation?)
Preparations are already under way and everything is going so marvelously. My former host family is AMAZING. Simply the best. (cue Tina Turner here). They own an apartment complex right behind their house and are saving an apartment for Octavio & I. So we have a home! and one in an area I'm familiar with around people I know & trust (and love!). Who could ask for more? I was not looking forward to apartment hunting in Mexico. And no offense, but I did not trust Octavio to do it either. His last apartment in Kansas City he signed the lease without ever even seeing the apartments! Such a boy... And I know my mom loves the fact that I have people I know around me if anything so go wrong.
Amazing thing #2 my host family has done to make the moving/transition 1000 times easier and less stressful was an incredible surprise! Apartments in Mexico don't come with refrigerators or stoves so Octavio & I weren't sure when or how we'd be able to get one. Also...Octavio tried to prepare me for sleeping on the floor (for several months maybe he said) in case finding and buying a mattress was difficult. Then Alejandra, my host sister, told me that her mom had a bed and a refrigerator they were going to lend us! Such a huge weight off our shoulders! I have a bed when I get there!
Amazing thing #3 is that they're trying to help find a job for Octavio and I.
My freshman roommate, Risa, and I had a motto the year we lived in 228 Ford Hall. "God must love us." Because while everyone else around us was having roommate troubles and Risa and I were loving everything, we never disagreed about anything, she was friends with my friends & I was friends with her friends, we loved spending time with each other and in our room, our dorm room was the safe haven for our friends who didn't get along with their roommates. We decided God must have really loved us for giving us such an amazing pot luck experience. Once again, I have the same feeling! God really must love us for giving me this host family 3+ years ago when I studied abroad! I don't think I could have done this move without them! I definitely would be a lot more scared and a lot less excited without their help!
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