Kosice Journal

The Košice Journal, documents my exodus from a (relatively happy) bustling life in beautiful San Diego, to (voluntarily) take a post teaching English in the newly independent eastern capital of Slovakia during a very cold winter 1999.

The time I spent living in Slovakia was a life altering year. It was like I fell off the face of the earth as I had known it. There I was completely cut off from my family, boyfriend and friends which I left behind in San Diego.

Sometimes I was depressed, and felt lonely. It was a bit isolating because outside of Berlitz, nobody spoke English and it made me feel homesick. I definitely spent a lot of time taking my life-inventory. (Some called it a mid-life crisis.) I would fantasize about my future in-the-making, and ponder my past.

All in all, I made an effort to move myself forward each day and experience the new surroundings I found myself in.