These past couple of weeks have been significant for me, as
the title indicates. I have celebrated my 25th birthday, my first
anniversary and it has been 1 year and 9 days since we have left Canada.
As well as this, I have been so incredibly busy with many,
many good things. This has included celebrating these special events, meeting with
old and news friends from Austria, and visits from both old and new friends
from Canada! Plus working 7-day weeks between all of this!
So I haven’t had much time to reflect on the milestones that
I’ve reached in my life. I’d like to. The blog is a good place for some
reflecting, but maybe I won’t reflect really until we’re back in Canada (which,
by the way, is happening soon**), because the whole year has been a whirlwind.
What I do know now, though, is that it has been a good year. The year has
shaped me in so many ways. These two big adventures; of being married, of
living abroad; have played such a role into making me into who I am at 25 years
old. In countless ways my character, my faith and my relationships have been
challenged and strengthened this past year. I am proud of what we’ve done and
what we’ve accomplished. I am so thankful for Harry and his constant
companionship, his loyalty, his patience, his tenderness, his cooking and our
shared love for the outdoors. We’ve face many up and downs this past year while
being abroad. Our new life together has simultaneously, and incredulously,
shown us both our flaws and faults, and revealed our strengths.
And now as we look towards packing up our lives in Austria
and picking up some of the pieces, and starting new, in Canada, we are looking
forward to and planning for what will be a new adventure. As we are starting
now to financially, mentally and material-ly gear up for this transition, I can
say with certainty that it won’t be easy leaving Innsbruck. The closer it gets,
the more I see all the things I love about this city, its surroundings and this
country- and how much my heart has latched on to things here. But in writing
that, I realize that the growth that we experienced in coming here, will
certainly happen all over again as we transition back home. Until then, though,
we still have some time. And we will be making the most of the time, using all
our afternoons, and evenings and days off to enjoy the city, the mountains, our
friends and to finally do all the things we’ve been talking about doing throughout
this past year.
**We are starting our transition back to Canada in November! We’ll be leaving Innsbruck at beginning of November, travelling for 5-6 weeks, and flying back at the beginning of December!
- Christi
A sunny river-side birthday picnic.
A lovely visit from Harry's university friend and his wife. Thanks for saying hi as you head back home, all the best to you!
A grand reunion of long time buddies and wives! So nice to visit, show you Innsbruck and hang out all together- it happens far too little, and I am very much looking forward to the next get together!
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