WE'RE MOVING!!

It's about time I told you, but... We're moving.

Yes, we actually have a plan and it looks like we are being allowed to go through with it.

Juan Carlos and I have been given the opportunity to study at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.

We got back from visiting my home in England just over a week ago and plans for moving out are underway. In classic Juan and Talia style however, everything has been done last minute. Term starts August 23rd and when we got back we still didn't have a place to live and even as of when I'm writing this have we yet to register for classes.

Since I meet Juan Carlos, life has been a whirlwind of crazy and I'm pleased to announce that it's stayed that way.

Monday afternoon we looked at a place to rent that was infested with bats. I honestly thought that our destiny as last minute buyers and as the world's most professional procrastinators was that we had to live like Batman and Robin for the nest two years. As we said we'd take it (we really had nothing else on the cards) and help do it up, the landlord offered to show us another house... one we didn't know of, she hadn't mentioned until now that she owned any other places. As soon as we walked through the front door of this place and we couldn't believe it. It's perfect. Absolutely perfect. If I was looking for a place to live in - completely apart from the fact that we're panicking about needing to find just any place to live that's near the college - I would have STILL chosen this place!! She toyed with us on the price for a little, but she liked us. It turned out to be only $50 more a month than the what the best student marital housing Ephraim offers!! (and there wasn't many of those either) We feel so blessed and am now pretty excited.

Obviously we still have to register for classes, pack up our stuff, sell our car and buy a 4x4 (IT SNOWS ALOT IN EPHRAIM!) on top of being about to move into a three bedroomed, two bathroomed bungalow without any furniture and with a bank balance that might make a good punch line for a joke. It's also fun to mention that Snow College is in the middle of nearly no-where. It's so rural that there's a legitimate sheep crossing that takes place every year through the college campus.

Hopeful, nervous, excited and worried are only a handful of emotions that the two of us are feeling. Moving into the countryside, surrounded by snowy mountains, starting college together as a married couple and actually being independent and breaking off from our parents. It's scary stuff. But we're both hopeful that it'll be a blast.

There'll be many updates to post from this moment on, I'm sure.

Peace and Love till then.

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