About Me

Oh hey!

I'm a 25 year old student from New Jersey (no, no one says Joisey unless they're not actually from Jersey) who decided to peace out on the whole recession thing and move to Germany after college. Initially I came here in June 2011 to be an au pair, but became a grad student in April 2012 because 1) au pairing turned out to really not be my thing, 2) I wanted a degree abroad, and 3) higher education is actually affordable here (well done, socialism). I'll be here until the spring of 2014, at which point my boyfriend and I are blowing this popsicle stand to live in Mongolia for a year and make friends with yaks. Really for no reason other than we think Mongolia is cool and so are yaks.

I like llamas, going on adventures, flying kites, and doing things just to see if I can. I believe in sarcasm, shamelessly milking dual citizenship for opportunities, and doing whatever makes you happy--unless "whatever makes you happy" involves chopping people up with an ax, in which case maybe you should take up knitting. I'm scared of ants, zombies, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, so you should probably not put any of those things in my bed if you want us to be friends.


Thanks for reading my blog!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi! My name is Emily and I just became an au pair in Germany. after about a week or so i'm thinking to myself..why the hell am i doing this? I don't feel comfortable at all and it has nothing to do with the hospitality of the family. I love traveling and doing things but au pairing is NOT my thing. How do I deal with this? any suggestions?