4 years!

the worcester girls 4 years later

college was an amazing four years and four years ago today i graduated from wac. so i am now at the point where i've been out of college as long as i was there. and these last four years have been just as crazy.

barkley wearing our suite's
graduation bling

i spent a summer teaching at an academic camp in north carolina, moved to ireland for two years and did a masters degree, moved to connecticut and worked at a maritime museum, went to dc for the summer and worked at a high school leadership conference, ended up with a teaching job back home in new jersey, spent a summer as an alternate director of a sailing camp in connecticut, went back down to dc to work high school leadership

as well as kept in touch with some amazing college friends, made some new friends along the way, traveled around europe and the us, dated a few people, moved back in with my parents, been unemployed and through it all kept loving life enjoying every second of the adventure.

4 years later and still going strong!

i learned a lot about myself in those 4 years in chestertown - fell in love with a new sport (rowing), joined an amazing sisterhood (zta), studied abroad in ireland, met some amazing people and still keep in touch with many of them, had a few boyfriends, realized my passion for history, learned how to be an amazing teacher, had fabulous relationships with my professors, learned how to write, my confidence in myself grew, i found an amazing place i know i can alway go back to and laugh about the memories from those 4 years, learned so much from the people around me and took advantage of every opportunity. and in the 4 years since graduating i have continued to do those things. and i plan on continuing to learn and grow. so thank you washington college for 4 amazing years both in college and post college.

next year i will be back in chestertown for the reunion weekend and hope all my friends have fun there this weekend!

busy, busy this week in dc for me. tuesday went all over the district for work talking about visiting all the memorials and sites we go to, which was fun! went to dinner with patricia on wednesday night for our weekly catch up and yesterday night i met up with travis (jeanne's fiancee) he was in town for work and i met up with him and we went out to dinner at this great irish pub in old towne. so that was a fun night! and this weekend is shaping up to be quite awesome! i was gchatting with my friend ellie on wednesday and she said she was going to a brett dennen concert on saturday night at the 930 club and said i should go. now i have no idea who he was - but i went and listened to some of his music and really enjoyed it so decided why not! and then i had been thinking about going to the sugarland concert on sunday night by myself and i saw a fellow former blogger/twitter amanda's tweet about wanting to go. so we struck up a conversation and a little bit later i'm buying a ticket to go! which is super awesome because her and i have been trying to meet up with each other since i was in dc this fall! so i get to meet amanda and go to a sugarland concert! yay! plus i'm seeing my little & glittle for lunch on sunday too! so lots going on and then next week will be crazy at work, then it is memorial day weekend and i'm seeing jeanne & amy! and then conference life starts! i can't believe how fast life is going, but i'm loving it!

any fun plans this weekend?

ohhhh - and check out my guest post about a funny teaching story over on one of favorite bloggers the fabulous lucy the valiant! i had a great time meeting her and her family when i was in dallas!