Why?

I know many of you are asking why would I quit a perfectly good job in this economy? Why would I leave my California life behind for a few months and move to a foreign country? And how the hell am I going to fund it?

First, I will agree, I am a bit crazy, but after 3 years and 3 miserable jobs, I needed to do something drastic to turn myself around. Many of you know I started off as an auditor, this job had horrible hours, was insanely boring (too many hours spent sitting at the client doing nothing just so we could charge them) and you never knew what city you would be working in. You never had a life with this job. When Nick was done with his training in Northern California and relocating down to Southern California I decided the weather was better, and I hated my first job (talk about getting on BART every morning at 5 am and crying), so I landed a new job in tax down south. What a mistake, I knew it was, but decided to ignore the red flags my brain was putting up. Why was this job a mistake? Well, I had done an internship in tax in So Cal 2 years before and didn't like it, so why would this one be any different? It wasn't. It was fine for the first few months, then came the bordom....and I mean mindnumbing boredom. Some people could handle it, but I'm a worker and if I'm at work I want to work, I don't want to be told to send all my work to India and to sit there and do nothing for 8 -10 hours. The next career really pushed me over, I wanted to get into a more creative and people centered career, so I took a sales and merchandising job with Gallo Wine.....after my first ride along I knew the job wasn't for me but, it was a bad economy and jobs were hard to get so I took it. One year of waking up at 4 am to start a job was rough, what was more rough was the physical labor and retailers who expected you to do all their work for them. Let's just say this job is not meant for someone with a college degree who is analytical and came from accounting........plus sales is not my fortay, I am more of a collaborator and team player than hard pressed pusher.

So, here I am deciding to head to Argentina. It wasn't a tough decision, after Nick told me how much his internship in South Africa propelled him in his now career, I thought why not try out a career field that interested me as well as finally learn Spanish enough to converse semi-fluently. After refusing to learn it in daycare as a child and loving it in high school, and always wanting to know it better, I decided I would do an internship in a Spanish country. I have been to Spain, and although it's a lovely country, it was a bit too expensive, Chile was another thought (now glad I didn't pick it because of the earthquakes), and then Argentina. My cousin had been the year before to visit family and explore and her reviews were amazing so I decided that's where I need to go. I found a company, Connect-123, who specializes in placing foreigners in unpaid internships in Buenos Aires. They found a couple of options for someone who wasn't intermediate in Spanish (I can get away with my Spanish in a taco shop, but not in business), and let me pick my path. I decided to go with an internship with VOS language school (vosbuenosaires.com). For the next 8 weeks I will be doing 20 hours a week of intensive Spanish courses, followed by an online marketing, market research and public relations internship until the end of June.

The internship details have not been completely worked out but when I arrive next week and meet everyone the details will get hammered out. I am very excited for this journey. A bit nervous. I have always been a saver, even when I came back from New Zealand and had no money I was still able to save enough to quit my job and move to this foreign country. I guess you can thank my parent's for instilling the saving into me, unfortunately I didn't get the part of you can't spend all of it, yet.....Maybe when I grow up. ha-ha Sorry dad.

I know this was a bit long, and wordy. I am hoping as I go along I will become a better writer. My goal is to update you all weekly, maybe even sooner. I will include photos and links to see more photos. Please feel free to comment and email me. I am also available via skype. I love you all and thank you for your support on this journey.