Amazing how times flies when you are having fun. These past few years have been a wild ride
and now that I am back in the States it feels just like before I went to
university. I am enjoying seeing my
family that I haven’t seen in over a year and revealing in the conveniences of
American living. But my wandering feet
are about to take over again.
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| Ruins of a castle in York |
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| Small street in York |
My name is Brittani and I have followed the tried and true
way of education for my whole life. I
went to school solidly, every year from Pre-School through my Bachelor’s degree
without missing a beat. Throughout my
school years I was an Honors Student and for the most part excelled in
learning. But I didn’t always have a
plan for what I wanted to do ‘when I grew up’.
As a matter of fact the major I chose to start at Arizona State
University with was one that I had chosen randomly from the list. It also started with an ‘A’ so I didn’t have
to mire through too much to make a quick decision.
Anthropology was my haphazardly chosen field of study. The cultural subsection didn’t really grab my
attention in the first semester and so I was starting to doubt my choice. But then came along the Archaeology class
that would change my life. It was
brutally hard but incredibly rewarding.
To this day it is the class that I remember most. Buried Cities and Lost Tribes, taught by the
amazing Dr. Laura Popova.
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| Graduation from Arizona State University |
So hop, skip and jump to nowadays I am about to embark on a
journey to get my Master’s degree in Bioarchaeology at the University of
York. A lot of time and difficulty went into
making this decision to attend York instead of Cambridge, but in the end I am
more than happy about my choice.
But what has been truly amazing about this past year in
Spain has been that it prepared me for this next phase of my life, living
aboard without any friends, family or really anyone that I know. Additionally, spending a year in Spain has
opened a lot of doors into my creative side that I wasn’t sure I would ever be
able to reach again, let alone make money with it.
In a desperate attempt to stay afloat in a foreign country
Kellie and I employed our writing skills through a freelance website called
oDesk. We wandered through a few
websites to arrive at this one and for us it has the best fit for what we do. And now, facing down the real looming black
cloud of student loan debt I am expanding my creative skills again in search of
sustainable income while studying.
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| So it's London and not York. St Paul's Cathedral |
I have a lot of ideas about several different projects that
I want to start and work on. The biggest
one is perhaps learning how to crochet.
I will be investing a small amount of money into the start-up materials
but from there I hope to be able to utilize the internet and my cute little
books to create wonderful things. Though
a scarf is the obvious first project.
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| That is a normal fashion choice in Spain. We are in the gardens of the Alhambra and Kellie just had to photobomb my picture. |
From there I also want to delve deeper into my love of
photography and hopefully get something set up for that as well as work on to
get the best shots. Soap making, candle
making, weaved bracelets, T-shirt design, cooking , baking…I have a lot of
different idea and projects that I want to explore. Join me as I explore and investigate and
maybe you too will have a few new hobbies and projects of your own!
Brittani
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