Over dinner a few days before finishing my undergraduate degree, a friend and I were discussing the pressure placed on us to immediately find jobs, careers, baby-daddies and start our retirement funds. L mentioned how, like most of us “soon-to-be-job-market-ready-students”, she was feeling anxious about what to do with her life after graduation. I, like many other “need-to-get-the-frick-out-of-here-students”, told her not to stress and to take some time off to travel. I told her about the promise that 16-year-old-me made to future-me: to always take time off after every major step in my life.
We spent a lovely dinner talking about societal pressures placed on young women, international politics, environmental issues, boys, and other important things. She was the one to suggest that I start this “blog” to document, record, whine and write about life after graduation. So my dear, this one’s for you!
A blog dedicated to the inspired, the itchy-footed, the open-minded and those with enough time on their hands to read this ;)
So here it is. The documented adventures of an "over-educated", under-qualified enviro-kid!
I should also mention that I feel like blogs are incredibly self-serving… That being said, what better way to keep friends and family posted on my travels (or at least the PG parts) than this!
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