Best Ever

What I am about to write here may seem kind of obvious to most of you, but I am actually having the time of my life here in England.  This is hands down the best decision I have ever made and I'm going to tell you why.

When I was still living in Canada, before I moved to England, I had a very uninteresting life.  Every morning I would wake up at 6:00am, go to work, work at a job I had been doing since I was sixteen and absolutely hating it, come home at 2:30 or 3:30 and do basically nothing all night (unless it was a weekend) and then repeat it all again the next day.  Sounds boring eh?  That's because it was.  I had graduated teacher's college which meant I finally had the education I needed to have the career I have wanted since I was a little girl, but I couldn't get a job...at all.  My school board wouldn't even put me on the occasional/supply list.  Life was lame, and I remember thinking to myself, "am I going to wake up one day and realise that I'm fifty years old and I haven't done anything memorable in my life?"  That thought scared me; I had a genuine fear of regretting my life.  

That was when I knew I had to do something big.  This scared me even more, since I was not really the type of girl to do something as big as this.  I was and always had been comfortable in my little "box" of home - I lived at home all through university and things were just easy there.  But really, it gets to a point when you don't really think living with your parents (no offence mom and dad, you rule) is something you want to do anymore.  But still, the thought of leaving, and going so far away, made me a little nervous.  But, like I said, it was the best thing I ever did. I mean, look at what I have been (and will be) doing!  By the time I have been here a year I will have travelled to Holland, France, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Prague and Ireland.  I can't even believe I just wrote that about myself!  My love of music and theatre, too, has definitely been let loose - The Tragically Hip, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Lady Gaga, Bon Jovi, Pearl Jam, Jack Johnson, Wicked, Billy Elliot, Blood Brothers, Sister Act, Priscilla...and I'm sure more will be added to that list at a later date.  Not to mention all the fantastic friends I have made, some of which I know I will remain friends with long after we all go back home to our regular lives.  And that is an incredible feeling.  Oh!  And I get to teach and have that career that I have been dreaming about for so long (even if it is at a ridiculously challenging school).  So, again, and even though you may have already guessed it, I am putting it in writing: I love my life.