Dear Aunt Bebe…Sometimes you know you are going in the right direction…

Dear Aunt Bebe,

Sometimes you know you´re going in the right direction. I learned that after 2 movies, 3 pages out of a book, a chit chat with a Vegan, 8 Brit´s serving me yucky plane food (*Virgin airlines has totaly down graded since I last flew with them. The food isn´t as good and last time everyone got backpacks full of socks, eyepads, ear plugs, gum, pens….this time we got toothpaste, eyepad and pen in a little zip lock baggy. Its the little things that count to me)  I landed at London, Heathrow. Caught the bus to Oxford and was just in full grin the entire bus ride to Oxford (well I´m sure I grin while I´m asleep too) The ride was so beautiful covering the British country side. There were tons and tons of trees and green green, horseys, cows, ponies and pretty pretty landscape. Sometimes the trees got so thick you could just barely see the sun crack through the branches . We´re talking thick, kind of like the way you would look for the sun would be like looking for the price tag on a rounder of clothes at TJ Maxx.

So I made sure I checked out the map of how to get to my hostel from the train station. Just like the Let´s go travel guide said I went under the bridge and I was there. In my hostel I met this gal Juliet.  A totally ambitious gal who was in Oxford because she was graduating from the Oxford business school. She double majored in Business and Accounting and is currently working in Switzerland for Capital Group….(I think that´s supposed to be a big deal) She wanted to cruise all the colleges that were filmed for the Harry Potter movie, have dinner and drinks. So I was down. She was a cool girl, very confident and straight forward. She straight up told me that she thought Orange County was beautiful but she would never live there because it´s so superficial. Then a little later told me that if I want a boyfriend in Europe I should look for a guy who owns a big dog. I guess since the houses are so small here everyone has small dogs. According to her if the dude is walking a big dog that means he has a huge house. Intuitive girl eh? The interesting thing about this girl was as different as we are we were also very similar.  She too once thought that she would marry someone and found that that wasn´t the route for her. She said that even though she felt stupid for almost making such a big mistake she thought that it´s those mistakes that excell us farther ahead at a faster speed. She said when you mess up at something big you learn faster. I thought that was pretty accurate. Cause I know now whats lagit and what´s not lagit in relationships. Meeting Juliet at the beginning of my trip has give me a sense of peace about it. Realizing that some people do share my experiences and that makes me not feel so alone. Off to Belgium.

Ciao Tia!

Besitos!

Irvina