Category Archives: North Carolina
Here we go!
1. Find wedding and reception venue 2. Pick a date 3. Find “the dress” 4. Take engagement photos … 5. Go explore the world together 🙂 So we’re off to Thailand tomorrow morning. It’s hard to believe that after all … Continue reading
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Tagged engagement, excitement, flights, living abroad, nervousness, planes, teaching English, thailand, travel, traveling couples, wake up call, Wedding
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Life in construction [+ a spontaneous beach trip]
Lennon had it right. This quote apt to what’s happening right now in my life. It seems silly now to confidently announce my life plans on a blog when circumstances out of my control change so quickly. Now I feel unsure … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach, Emerald Isle, emerald isle nc, international relationship, Jane Austen, jane austen persuasion, John Lennon, Life, long distance relationships, north carolina, ocean, photography, Relationships, return to the sea, spontaneous trip, teaching, travel, vacation
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What’s making me happy this week
*As a (hopefully) weekly Friday feature, I will share a few great things that made me happy this week. It’s purposefully an open-ended category so that I can incorporate books, music, film, personal happenings, people, stories etc.* 1. This band … Continue reading
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Guess what? I wrote my first guest post!
A cute blog called 5 Things to do Today has featured a few of my suggestions as a guest post! The site is full of illuminating suggestions on how to do everything from cure writers block to improve your mood. … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 Things to do Today, Blogging, City, Guest Post, jeffries, Quote, Susan Jeffries, things to do today, Town, travel, traveler, writing
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Wedding Planning [as explained through movie clips]
My life in the past month has consisted mainly of three activities: trying (and failing) to learn Mandarin, watching marathons of Breaking Bad on Netflix, and lots and lots of wedding planning. Truthfully, I never would have expected that I would be … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking bad, Brides Magazine, bridesmaids, bridezilla, chinese, couples, father of the bride, film, Life, movies, romance, wedding planning, Weddings, When Harry met Sally
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Mountains + friends + good beer = a great weekend
While I may not be “abroad” at the moment, I have been able to take advantage of my time in North Carolina and travel to one of my favorite places in the world — the Appalachian mountains. Growing up in … Continue reading
Posted in Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina
Tagged As you Like it, Beer, Beer Festival, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Buchi, Fleet Foxes, High Country Beer Festival, Ivory Tower Brewery, Kombucha, Literature, Mountains, north carolina, Photobooth, Pisgah Brewery, Quotes, Shakespeare, travel
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My most influential teacher
I was inspired to write this post after a very odd experience at the gym today. This morning, while sweating away on a stationary bike and reading the news on my new Nook, I looked up and saw a very familiar, … Continue reading
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Tagged children, China, education, forgotten face, Fourth Grade, growing up, inspirational, introvert, magnet school, north carolina, teachers, teaching, writing
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Packing lightly is not my strong suit
The month of May has been a time of packing up different elements of my life. Not only have I been faced with the difficult task of packing and sorting through my childhood room as we prepare to sell our … Continue reading
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Tagged bose headphones, desert island, prized possessions, travel
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“Gleams that untravelled world”
“I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson- “Ulysses” I remember reading … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred lord tennyson, long distance relationship, travel, vacation
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Colleen Abroad 