Have I ever explained why I left America and moved to Europe?
Like the whole story?
I don't think I have.
So that's what we're going to do today.
Hey everyone! I'm Dana and you're watching Wanted Adventure Living Abroad.
The other day I was watching a video from The Gifted Vegan, a YouTube channel that I
recently discovered and have really been enjoying.
And it's a woman named Shy, who's from Israel but now lives in Berlin, and in this video
that I was watching, she was telling why she left Israel and moved to Germany.
And suddenly I was like: huh, I don't think I've made a video yet explaining why I left
the USA and move to Europe.
So here it is.
My whole life I grew up learning about my Czech heritage on my mother's side.
My mom was actually only the first generation to be born in America.
She spoke Czech as a kid at home, and so there were still a lot of Czech traditions that
we did in our household as I grew up.
As a kid, for example, I learned Czech stories and little songs for kids in Czech, and I
was just always really interested in learning more about my family history and the Czech
language and the culture.
Fast forward now to the end of high school.
I learned Spanish all throughout middle and high school, and when it came time to choose
which university I would go to, I decided to stay in state - so I decided to go to a
school in the state of Florida, where it would be cheaper for me to go, so that I could afford
to do a study abroad semester in Spain.
Side note: if you're curious about why it's cheaper to stay in state for college, you
can check out this Ask an American video that I did on college tuition in the US.
The idea of doing a study abroad semester in Spain had wormed its way into my brain,
I think when I was around 12.
I can't remember for sure, but I think my parents probably said something like, if I
worked hard at Spanish and I got good grades, then I could study abroad in Spain one day.
I don't know for sure, but I just know that for many, many years, it had been a part of my
"plan" to learn Spanish and then study in Spain.
So, yeah, I always had this, this little wanderlust there.
It that had always been there, this interest in other countries and other cultures had
always been a part of my personality.
However, when the time actually came to go to Spain, unfortunately it did not turn out
as I had imagined.
As I explained in more detail in this video here, after a few weeks, I basically got totally
panicked and ran back home to the U.S. crying.
And, yeah, you can find out more about why in that video.
But even so, even after that not so great first time in Europe experience, there was
still something pulling me to Europe or pulling me abroad in general.
As far as Europe goes, there was still this really intense interest in the history, in
the architecture here, in the many languages spoken in Europe, the lifestyle here, the
work-life balance.
I just really had this desire deep within the pit of my stomach to spend more time in
Europe in particular, but also just really wanted to spend time abroad in general.
I finished college and I still didn't know what I wanted to do.
But I had a few ideas.
Not actually ideas about what I wanted to do for a living, but a few ideas about that
whatever I did needed to either be flexible and allow me plenty of vacation time to go
spend time in Europe or other parts of the world, or even better, the job itself needed
to somehow take me abroad, maybe on business trips or to work in an office abroad for a while.
So that's what I started looking for.
And then it's like one day it just kind of hit me on the head.
Wait a second; if what I really want more than anything is to live abroad, and I'm
trying to find a job now based on the criteria that it involves travel or living in another
country or I'm just working so that I can take a vacation in another country, then why
don't I just move to another country where I would want to live and then find a job there
that will allow me to live there?
If my only criteria for a job is that it brings me abroad, then I can basically move abroad
and then do any job that allows me to live there, right?
So that was my eureka moment.
And while I didn't know at all where life would take me after moving abroad, I had to
pick some place to start off on my adventure, and that is when all my interest as a kid
in my family history and the Czech Republic just kind of made the decision an obvious one.
I would move to Prague.
So my question for you is: What is a big change that you've made in your life, and how did
you decide to do it?
Please let me know in the comments below.
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Until next time, auf Wiedersehen!
Which university I would go to, I decided to stay in state...stay in state.
Grew up speaking chick...chick, speaking Czech.
Sorry, sorry. Okay. Ready?
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