Friday night was MoMo's Birthday and we celebrated at his house. Yesterday I visited my Grandma and spent some time with her and a couple of my other relatives. Last night we celebrated MoMo's birthday again with a more tight group of friends if you want to call it that. All of us went to Grand Central Bowling in SE and it was such a great time. I love my group of friends, and they have become like a family to me since I began hanging out with them about a year ago. I keep thinking how different everything would be if I moved away (which is happening in less than a year) and to a place where I don't know or have anyone at. I'm not sure how I will react, and at the same time, being alone in a foreign place is something that really entices me.
Since I started working for the Spectator, I had so many great opportunities and I've met great people. When I went to Dallas for the Editor's Conference in early November, everything just became sort of like a domino effect and I was lucky and blessed that it was an effect into the positive direction. I'm flying to Washington DC in mid February for another conference/professional reporters course. I'm really excited to meet new people and network in DC - as I hope it will turn out well and open doors to many more things. I never entered journalism thinking it is a career I want to pursue, but I've developed skills and the better I become as a reporter/writer, the more positive results I see, and the benefits really have made me rethink journalism as a potential profession because it is something I love, and I happen to be good at. I really do wish that I get a position for the Fellowship program to work at some sort of news publication for a year in New York. The only thing that scares me is being on TV and doing some kind of commentary and I'm asked questions on issues I don't have knowledge or expertise to answer. It's kind of frightening, but I like to think that after a couple of times it won't be as bad as it looks or seems.
I've also chosen to go through with a Plan B in case Plan A (journalism) doesn't work out. I applied for a Master's program at London School of Economics for an MPA in European Public and Economic Policy and also an MSc in European Political Economy. Both fields which interest me - and I would do anything to live in Europe for some time. I've always planned on going to law school but 3 weeks before I was going to take the LSAT, I had a change of heart and I don't want to be a lawyer. It doesn't interest me like it used to a few years ago. I think things happen for a reason - and the things which happened to me in the last year or so have definitely proved to be more exciting then doing 3 years of law school only to graduate and not enjoy being a lawyer. I have every capability of being one, it's just not something I see myself doing on a larger scale.
In terms of my personal life - after I graduate I plan on moving somewhere far. I really don't enjoy living in Portland and I have an urge to travel and see other places. I hate staying in the same place for a long period of time, but at the same time I get homesick often. I also hate the fact that my boyfriend is moving away and I can't be with him. He has grown to be an incredibly important person in my life and I care and love him unconditionally. It just is really heartbreaking to know that every new day I wake up next to him is closer to the time he must leave.
Those are just a few things happening in my life right now. My classes are really keeping me busy and hopefully this week I will start going to the gym.
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