Well, if you're hearing the story of someone's life, the first thing you usually want to know is their name. Mine is Katy. I'm twenty-seven at the moment, and at this point in the story, I'm back in my hometown, working in a bank. This is just a stop on the way as I save up both monetarily and emotionally for my next adventure.
To catch up you up on the story to this point, my family is from Arkansas, but I was born and raised in Tennessee. Tennessee is a beautiful state and I'm happy to have grown up a southerner, but I've always known I wouldn't stay here forever. While I was in college, I realized that trying to control and plan my own life brought on nothing but stress. So, I gave the plot line to God, and He's led me places I never would have imagined.
After college, I moved to Italy for three years, living for a few months in Scandicci, a suburb of Florence, teaching English, and then most of the time in Milan, where I worked for a church. Nothing was going on in the states once I finished my job there, so I, rather on a whim, decided to move to China. I lived in Jingzhou, in Hubei province, for most of 2010. I taught English at Yangtze University, and met some amazing people.
On Christmas Eve of 2010, I left China and moved back to middle Tennessee. I had a relationship going here that I needed to spend some time living on the same continent with to see if that was where my life was headed. It turned out it wasn't, so now I'm excited to be single, free, and have the future wide open. I have a few ideas in mind, but the most likely right now is going back to China. Stick around for the next chapter!
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