About

UPDATE: I moved to the Czech Republic. Then I moved to Taiwan. It’s great. 🙂

Once upon a time.

I don’t even know how to begin this, do I? I’ve sat in this same spot multiple times trying to figure out to debut my new piece of the Internet. My new blog.

You see, I’m not a newbie to the blogging community. Once upon a time, I blogged a lot. About everything: my life. My family. I wrote about my move to Boston and everything that ensued: my lovely flower shop, Steve, riding the T. Things that broke my heart, and things that made my heart sing. It was a good blog, but after I landed back in Lubbock to work at The A-J it didn’t feel all that applicable anymore. It wasn’t me. I couldn’t fit myself into that context anymore.

So I finally figured it out, came up with the name for a blog that I thought defined me: The Katiedove. I love it, so don’t any of you dare hate.

And this blog?

Well this blog is to document my life for the next year or so: My year of living outside the conventional.

You see, I’m moving to the Czech Republic. Specifically the capital city: Prague. The City of a Hundred Spires. The Golden City. The Heart of Europe. The Fairytale City.

Let’s, um, back up a little, shall we?

After my move to Boston I took a job at a newspaper in my college town. While it was a great job, it wasn’t for me. It just wasn’t.

You see, I’m a person who is not easily satisfied. And for me, doing the same thing day in and day out, day after day was not the life I wanted to be living. Especially because I wasn’t doing something I was passionate about. And I didn’t like the road my life was heading down. I was scared of my future at that place. I didn’t like the (angry and unhappy) person I was turning into.

So I did something about it. I researched and started saving money. Like crazy. And the more I researched and the longer I stayed at that job I realized that teaching English as a foreign language was the best decision for my life at this moment in time.

And after a long, long, long angst-ridding, miserable year, I’m down to the wire. I’m back home with my family, at a new job, and have approximately 50 days before my flight leaves for Czech.

I’m choosing to live a different life, and I couldn’t be more excited (and scared shitless) about it. But that’s me: I’m insatiable and I don’t really know what I want for my life.

BUT. But I do know what I want out of life for at least the next year.

So follow along. I’ll try to keep you entertained. I don’t know what I will find out there in Eastern Europe, but I know it’ll be something unexpected. And that’s all I’m asking for right now.