Time flies. I almost cannot say that last year in Taiwan I did (fill in the blank). And that's so weird to me. This past year has gone by so fast, but yet at times so slow. Time is weird. That is all I have to say about that ;)
But I would like to reminisce about some of the things I've done this past year.
1. I returned from Taiwan in January after teaching English to children there for 6 months.
2. I visited Kristina in Southern California for 2 weeks after getting back from Taiwan and contemplated moving there, but alas I did not feel like I should.
3. I started cleaning out my room at Dad and Mom's house and threw away and donated a lot of stuff. (But I still have a lot more to go through, which will have to wait until I visit again.)
4. I searched for a job wherever I could find one. I was mainly looking in places where family lived. Minnesota, Southern California, Northern California, Virginia.
5. At the end of February I got a job interview in Virginia at the Center for Population Economics. At the beginning of March I got the job offer to work for them. I accepted!
6. I flew myself and Matt back to Utah. I packed up my stuff and Matt helped me drive the car to Virginia.
7. I arrived in Virginia and stayed with Lara and Glen for a month or two until I found a place with LDS roommates 5 miles from my work, 3 miles from Lara and Glen's house, and 1.5 miles from a metro stop.
8. I settled into my new place.
9. Heather and Tim came to visit in June and we visited Charlottesville and it was awesome! We went to UVA campus and Ash-Lawn Highland. (It was my first time ever in Charlottesville and I was super excited!)
10. I discovered Meadowlark Gardens in Vienna and it became a sanctuary and a place for me to commune with nature and be by myself. I bought a year pass and it has paid for itself numerous times over.
11. I fell in love with Wolf Trap. I saw the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform there in June and went to two more shows there in the summer (Brian Stokes Mitchell and the National Symphony Orchestra and Peter Pan).
12. I felt my first earthquake ever. It was a 5.9 quake and I was at work when it happened.
13. In October, I finally got to visit Monticello in Charlottesville and fell in love!
14. I saw "Hamlet" and "The Importance of Being Ernest" at a Shakespeare theater in Staunton, VA. I got to watch live on the big screen "Tosca" and "Phantom of the Opera." I saw live at the Kennedy Center "Wicked" and "Les Miserables." They were all awesome!
15. For my 28th birthday in October, I went to Disney on Ice, princess-themed, dressed as a princess with fancy dress and all. (It was my first time ever to Disney on Ice.) It rocked!
16. I went to the National Tree Lighting Ceremony on the Ellipse in front of the White House.
17. I saw "A Christmas Carol" at Ford's Theater and "Much Ado About Nothing" at the Shakespeare Theater in downtown D.C.
18. I visited Mount Vernon for the first time ever and bought a year pass.
Happy New Year! May it be an amazing year!
4 comments:
And you discovered the joy of clementines as snacks! :)
You must have been so busy you missed the man I sent your way. He came back without you.
I'm thinking this year is going to be full of adventures too.
AnnaLisa! Seriously! I went t with you to all of the Wolf Trap performances (I think) and I know one of the times you went to Meadowlark gardens you took Adam. Other than that this post was very good. Some of your posts are really funny (The Clementine Post.);-)
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