Here is where we get you to understand the concept of this blog. We met in 7th grade. We lived in the same neighborhood and went to the same schools. We remained friends, at times very close and there were times when life had its way of pulling us away. But even through those moments, we knew we could always be there for each other. We've seen each other grow and mature and remain the same in some areas. Together we have experienced the carefree days of middle and high school to becoming frantic about jobs, life goals, and going through one marriage and a proposal!Now, we are two young women. Yes, we are women. Scary, right? It makes it sound like we are very mature and held together. We can be, I suppose. But we have remained the same in relation to the dynamic of our friendship throughout the years. This dynamic is what has always kept us together. It's like we have searched through and through and found that, indeed, our kindred souls were found in each other. Tear!
I met my husband in 2007 at FIU. And through me, Yaso met my husband's brother later on. We would've never thought that life would work out so perfectly as it has. But, alas, Yaso is now engaged to my husband's brother. I got married in 2010 and moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to be with my husband as he pursues his PhD. I left everything behind, including my lifelong friend.
So in the fall of 2011, I approached her with an idea. Being in a different country, with a different time zone, and with different schedules, we sometimes go a while without a skype date. We also suck at maintaining a blog. So, this blog has been made to write letters back and forth to each other, share our life experiences in different countries, dream about our goal of one day living and working in DC, and talk about current events and policies that make us both mad and happy. We figure, there's no better incentive to write a post on a blog than knowing we are writing to each other.Yaso reminded me that we did this in a composition notebook when we were in middle school. So in a way, we are bringing back our middle school tradition of writing letters to each other, exchanging them, and repeat the process.
This time though, we are much older, wiser, funnier (if I may say so myself) and are inviting the world the world to join us as we make our best attempt to keep in touch with each other while living across the pond.
Enjoy! :)
- authored by Kristellys. approved by Yashoda.
