Year: 2013

Day Four– This morning we left Sydney to head north, towards the home stay portion of our trip abroad.  It was a long day on the bus, but we were making good time and before lunch we decided to stop at a park and play some get-to-know-you games. Sounds like a good idea right?  I …

Today I discovered my love of Australian surfing….men.  Australian surfers are all I expected them to be: tall, thin, tanned, shaggy hair, and let’s not forget the accent. Our surfing expedition took place on the famous (at least in Australia) Bondi Beach.  We headed there on the bus amongst blue skies and hopeful hearts that …

For the last two summers, I’ve had the fortune of traveling the world with students from my area of Ohio. Last year I traveled to 6 countries in Europe (which I had done three times before with students from the schools at which I taught), and this summer I am traveling to Australia! There were …

I’m officially on summer break now, and my summer has started off on a very high note. I always have a list of projects that I plan on doing in the summer, and while I think that I am a pretty handy girl, I’ve always relied on my dad or whatever guy I’m dating at …

It’s hard for me to admit sometimes that I’ve really messed up.  But I really messed up. I always joke about how awful I am at relationships, but this time I don’t find it so funny, just disappointing. I’ve really let my fear of relationships sabotage me to the point of no return.  I met …

My latest dating adventure has me pretty convinced- there are no decent guys my age left out there. The good news is, in case I forgot to mention it, my career woes are no longer.  I found another teaching job, at a school much better than where I am currently teaching (and trust me, I …

Since my break up with Mr. Almost-Perfect, I’m still single, and I’ve decided I want to take a little break from guys for a while; however, that didn’t stop me from seeing a blast from my past.  I’m almost afraid to tell everyone about this encounter, especially since I’m going to see some of my …

I wanted to go somewhere for spring break, traveling is absolutely my favorite thing to do, and my friends had bailed on me, so Mr. Almost-Perfect had the initial idea what we go somewhere together.  He was on a super tight budget, and wanted to go camping- and I mean for real outdoors, just us …

So my seemingly almost-perfect boyfriend still had his nice moments, even though we were starting to struggle.  For his birthday, we spent the whole day together, going to breakfast in the morning, and when I asked him what he wanted to do for the  day, my treat, he just wanted to chill at home with …

This is not a love story, no happy ending here.  I’ll just go so far to say that Mr. Almost-Perfect is anything but, though he did give me lots of great material. Our seemingly perfect relationship was going so well during the first couple weeks. I even had moments when I thought “wow, I’m not …