Wedding Date

I get to marry this amazing, handsome man on MAY 26, 2012! I'm so blessed!

The weather is fine!

Here in the Ohio River Valley, it can get very hot and humid during the summer, particularly in July and August. Well, the temperature has been in the 90s with high humidity basically since I've been back in the U.S. on July 12th. But the past few days it has been cool in the morning and at night and in the 70s and 80s during the day. So I'm pretty happy about that! To celebrate the nice weather, I took some pictures of some scenes around my parents' house, where we've been living since I was eleven. My dad grew up here, and my grandparents live directly across the street now.

Enjoy the weekend!

The Waiting Game

I waited a long time to hear whether I could go here. This is the city of Nuernberg in Germany, which is where I taught English for ten months. I waited about 3 months to know whether my Fulbright grant application passed the first round. And when it did, I had to wait another 2.5 months to hear that I got the grant! Then I waited another month or so to know where exactly in Germany I would teach.

We all have to wait at different time in our lives, but I feel I've been doing a lot of waiting lately. First, the Fulbright grant, and now I'm waiting for another form of employment. Now that I'm back home in the U.S., I'm applying for jobs. This means that I've been waiting weeks to still hear back from potential employers. It's frustrating and annoying. And it makes me feel quite anxious somedays. But I guess we all have to do it sometimes, and hopefully it will pay off when I do get a job. I just have to have patience and trust in God and maybe stop checking my e-mail every twenty minutes

If you want to know more about my Fulbright grant, click here.

New Beginnings

Hiya! I'm Erin. Some of you might remember me from the blog Journeys Abroad. This was the blog that I kept while I was in Germany on a Fulbright grant as an English Teaching Assistant. I loved this experience, and I learned so much about Germany, the language, and the people. Here and there I'll write about my experiences in Germany, and update my previous readers about my last month in Germany. But now I am back home in the U.S., starting a new life. I recently got engaged, I'm applying for jobs, and living back at home with my parents and sisters. So this blog is bascially about my life and the things that happen in life. Quite simple. But I think the little things in life are what we all share, and through the little things I think we can relate to one another the best. So here's me! Oh and my fiance*, Kenny!

*I do know how to spell this word, but Blogger wouldn't let me put the accent on fiance...