Once upon a time, there were two girls. They were cousins separated by a three month age difference and cities two hours apart. The older one was quiet and unsure and just looking for a place to fit in. The younger seemed to always know her place and wanted to grow in it. They spent their childhood climbing the giant tree in their grandparents front yard and playing made up games about wizards and magic and left each other notes under the loose bricks outside. As time went on, their roles quickly changed from story weaving playmate to advice giving comforter and their days of eating butter before looking at Christmas lights and hiding behind a bush until their mom called them home came to a close. The older cousin moved to the younger cousins town and they both acquired boyfriends they would have been better off without and the younger cousin listened to the older cousin ramble on for hours about how she would never be happy.
Where are they now?
The older one graduated high school and spent a month of the summer in Romania, where she found purpose and the answers she needed and finally found the place she belonged. Now she's starting her freshman year of college and preparing for the unspoken adventure that entails.
The younger one changed her senior year plans and took a chance. She's leaving for Ireland, where she'll be an exchange student for six months, having adventures with leprechauns and nuns in the land of potatoes.
This is the story of me and my cousin, and we're blogging through our experiences in these next few months as we face new challenges a whole ocean apart from each other.
So, needless to say, the next few months are going to bring about changes of the major sort, challenges we've never imagined, and countless memories we'll have for the rest of our lives.
My stories will be told here, obviously. And Carrie Lee's will be told on her newly started blog:
http://carrieleeblogshere.blogspot.com
Follow her and enjoy. We're all in for a bumpy but thrilling ride.
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