Follow your dreams, they know the way...

"Dream it. Wish it. Do it."

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams"

Embarking on any new adventure can be a scary thought. Moving 3000 miles from home, across the Atlantic Ocean, and into a country you've only been to once, can be even scarier! But those thing's never stop me. A few months ago I made the decision to move to another county to work as an Au Pair! Since I loved my first experience in the United States, I wanted to have a new adventure. It has been a long process, & a lot of waiting but a few days ago I finally got the email that I had been waiting for. After going through the process a few time's before and not being successful I was a little scared to open the email. I have been told my whole life to go with your "gut" feeling, so that's what I did. Reading though the email, I got a great feeling, full of excitement and happiness! Over the past two days, there have been some phone calls from a potential host family and lovely conversation with the host mom! It has been decided that we would both like to proceed with a match!

I could not be happier, and while I think this job has it's challenges, it will bring a new learning experience, a chance for growth, and hopefully a very successful year living abroad in Europe!     

                                                      

(the picture is a hint as to what European county I will be moving to)

summer is coming...

"Because it’s summer and the memories are just waiting to happen."

- unknown

The summer weather has finally started to arrive, and what a beautiful long weekend we had! The sun was shining everyday! My sister and I went for a coffee this morning, and took a drive down to the little beach in Chester! The water was still a little to cold for swimming, as it always is here in Nova Scotia. Had a nice morning in the sun with my lovely sister! :)

the simple beauty of nature

  The sun is shining and it's a beautiful day, it's nice to just soak in the beauty of nature sometimes!

I took a few photo's of the flower's blooming around our yard today!

The picture's can speak more then what I can write!

Enjoy! :)

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. - Max Muller

keep calm & carry on....

A few week's ago, I came across this saying that seemed to have been popping up on twitter, on bookmarks in store, and other social media related places! It caught my attention so I wanted to learn more about it. "Keep Calm & Carry On" It was once used as a propaganda posted used by the British Army during WW 2, to raise the moral of the British public in the event of an invasion. It was only a limited distribution, and it wasn't until 2000 when the poster was re-discovered and re-printed onto mugs, posters, clothing, etc that it became popular. But, only in Europe. It wasn't until 2011 when a company attempted to trademark the title "Keep Calm and Carry On Ltd." but was unsuccessful. In their continued attempts to trademark the name and they have turned to trying globally in Canada and the USA. I tried to look for some recent information out of curiosity but couldn't find anything. I did look at some websites that sell many items with the saying, mostly out of Europe! Being in Canada I haven't seen to many item's in store, but expect to in the next few months. As it usually is with certain media or music related content that if from the UK or Europe, it takes at least a year to really HIT North America!

I wanted to write about why I like this saying but I'm finding it hard to. Everyone may read that saying and have a different connection to it, or may repeat it in a completely different situation then another. Whether your having a bad day at work, in an argument with someone, had something said to you, whatever it may it, I like to think that "Keep Calm & Carry On" can be one of those saying's to get you through that hard day, or to cheer you up. In life thing's happen that are just out of your control. For me in those "there's nothing I can do" moments I like to this just keep calm, and carry on. When something is out of your control, and already happened/over, it's in the past, so all that is left to do is just carry on. It's a nice saying to take some time and think about how it may relate to your life, or to how you can make it a part of your life. Maybe you have little saying's that stick with you, and pop up from time to time. I think this is a great one!

Thanks for reading,

Kelcey