Hey everyone. So here's the latest update. 2010 has truly been so far a year of major ups and downs, lots of new exciting, lots of changes but it seems like it is all coming together now for the better.
Some moves aren't supposed to work, I ended up leaving my friend's house in a month and just realized sometimes you can be very good friends but you really aren't meant to live together, so that's ok. I now have a very cute little house close to the university and a roommate who is only here part time as they split their time between Flagstaff and a community about an hour away from here.
Rob and I had a phenomenal dance photo shoot on V-Day. I have been working with a local photographer who has been helping me put together my first gallery show, that will be going up the second week of April and will be there till July. He knew I was a dancer and thought it would be fun to photograph Rob and I and then some solo shots and potentially incorporate them into the show. So after pushing stuff back a lot with scheduling conflicts, it was funny how V-Day feel on a Sunday and that was a good day for everyone so we ended up having a photo shoot on V-Day. I'll be posting the top 100 pictures on a photo slideshow on the blog, so I hope that you enjoy them. It was truly an awesome way to spend V-Day, Rob and I are both really not into the commercialized aspects of it all but we got to do something that was soooo us and just have a good time. We hope you guys enjoy these pictures.
More past the dancing, life has been incredibly good lately. Dating Rob has been an experience, that's for sure :) . I've never really been much of one who likes food and have been picky from a very young age but Rob's actually been patient and is actually teaching me how to cook. He is a FANTASTIC cook, I mean we have smoked chickens, flambeed them, stuffed them like chicken cordon blue with our own twist = AMAZINGNESS!!! Not only does he cook like my own personal chef, because he's such a good cook he's very selective when we actually go out to eat, and since I'm not really explored food much in my life, each week's date night is for sure an adventure. Just last week I had Sushi for the first time, Greek the next night with friends, Indian for date night, and Arabic at his house over the weekend, yeah not only are my travels hopefully going to get more global, I'll actually know what to try when I get there!
It's pretty incredible to have someone that loves dance as much as I do, is also a Latin American focused individual, loves to travel and escape like me, yeah I would definately say it has absolutely =ed AMAZINGNESS!! (Finding a theme here :) )
Work is going great, we open our brand new facility in a month so I'm getting really pumped as I'm started to meet and talk with groups individually in the community and tell them about this great facility that we are creating as a free community resource, we are actually up live now, check out the project I've been working to establish since I moved to Flagstaff in July, it's www.nacrc.net . I'm really excited about what we've been able to create and I'm happy that I'm helping to bring a badly needed community resource to a place I have fallen in love with.
It's funny when I first took my position it was suppose to be a one year contract, a lot of things have played out this year and I now know that I will be looking to relocate to Tucson at the end of the summer. While I absolutely loves this community and am truly integrated now, cost of living is high and it's not a good place to save for graduate school. So Tucson actually has the graduate program I am looking at, and since it is so Latin AMerican centered and that's my region that I want to continue working with I think it honestly makes a little bit more sense. I'm so happy for the opportunities I have had in Flagstaff and I finally feel that I am stepping into my role as a professional more then a student now, and am happy. But I do miss the academics and I know my goal has been for a long time to go to graduate school and I feel that Tucson will allow me to do both graduate school and grow professionally, so we'll see how it all plays out but hopefully I'll head down to Tucson in August and see where we go from there, I'll be applying to grad school to start the following fall.
SO that's the latest update. I'm having fun and living life outside of school and it feels great to know that life finally seems to be falling into place, I'm getting to do a lot of things I love and I feel very blessed.
I hope everyone is doing well, please send updates I love to hear from everyone and we'll chat soon!
Coral :)
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