I leave for Colorado in 2 1/2 days and I'm exactly 0% prepared, both mentally and physically.  This happens pretty much every time I transition into a new position, country, community, or anything really.  I kind of just sign up for the adventure and then flip-flop back and forth between "I can't wait it's going to be amazing" and "What the hell was I thinking?" for a few months, and then BAM it's time to go.  So, once again, here I am, one packing list in a random notebook, flight booked and 2 days to get it all together.

The thing is, I've done this routine so many times now that I have no doubts that everything will fall into place.  Actually this move should be much easier than my past few, I mean I'm staying in the same country, I'll have the same working phone the whole time, a measly 2 hour time difference, and should I forget ANYTHING, Amazon has me covered.  I'm kind of banking on the idea of throwing a few things in my travel backpack and getting on my flight, I don't want to sound too unconcerned, but I'm pretty sure this will work.  ​

Seven years ago I was halfway through my (one and only) year working at Northwestern Mutual, a great company, but not a place I wanted to be stuck for life.  Instead I started looking into escape plans.  Always in the back of my mind was serving with Americorps and thus it was the first place I turned.  I set my sights high and skipped right over the team member application for NCCC and went for team leader.  Obviously I was one step ahead of myself, while I was grated an interview, that's where the story ended, until now.  I took a seven year detour to teach, live, explore and absolutely fall in love with the other side of the world, but now I'm back.  While I'm getting ready for this adventure I decided to share it all with you, so  how was it that I came back to the somewhat forgotten dream...