Saturday, November 20, 2010

New Zealand...What?!

This week has been nutso in the most beautiful of ways. I had my first grad school interview, celebrated my 35th birthday, and was accepted to grad school. Wait, what?! Yeah its official, I’m totally going to grad school.

When I started selecting schools, I decided to choose one “reach for the stars” school. If someone handed me a plane ticket to go anywhere on the planet, where would I go? I immediately knew exactly the place I wanted to experience and began researching schools.


See the little orange swiggly sliver of land in the bottom right hand corner? That my friends is New Zealand. Massey University Wellington is located on that beautiful sliver of land and it will be my new home for the duration of Massey’s 2 year MFA program. And to think I have an entire two months to plan this move to a land so far away that it is already tomorrow there.

What’s on my to-do list? Passport renewal, sell truck (I am extremely sad to have to part with Baby), find NZ housing, pack stuff in storage, fine tune my MFA project idea, go back to Tejas to see and say adios to the fam, investigate unfun stuff like opening a NZ bank account, cell phone service, etc., and then I need to come up with a ridiculously large amount of cash to cover school, living, and getting my ass on the other side of the world.

There are other cool things to sprinkle in as well like learning the metric system, brushing up on currency exchange rates, and working full-time. Putting the sarcasm aside, there is truly nothing I’d rather be stressed out about. New Zealand, are you ready for this...cause I'm headin' your way.

7 comments:

  1. pal, you whole heartedly, 100%, hands down (faster) and up (a little slower) deserve this. and you are living proof that if you shoot for the stars, shit happens. go pal go!

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  2. Thanks pal! I'll be compiling a list of super rad things to do when you come and visit!

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  3. Layla, if there is anything...anything we can do to help out please let me know. This is so very exciting and I am so happy for you. NZ is so great and they will love you there. It will all come together, this dream is happening!
    -Nina

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  4. Thanks Nina! Just keep sending me words of encouragement, that's what I need the most. Throwing this together is a wicked challenge but my butt will be in a plane headed for NZ in 9 weeks!!

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  5. You are awesome...congrats buddy. Lurve ya!

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  6. Congratulations!!!! This is awesome! I am so proud of you for stepping out there and doing this! I always know that you were going to do big things some day!!!

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  7. Thanks Rueb and Kase - love you guys!!

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