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Before MN

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In a lot of my posts and comments I have been hinting that I used to live somewhere else and I really feel like I should shed some light on some of my travel experience.

First off, my dad is in the Navy, rather was in the Navy he recently just got out, but point is, I am a Navy baby.

Our family has been stationed all over the world. Im gonna start when I was born. At that time my family was in Japan. Yeah, Japan. We could get into all the technicalities of where I was officially born because I was born on a Naval base but I was born on the island of Japan. So I’ll leave that decision up to you all. I didn’t stay there very long because about a year after I was born we moved to Washington DC for 3 years. I have no memory of living there apart from some random, insignificant, tiny memories. I think the only significant thing that happened to us while there was my little sister was born.

When I was four our family got relocated again to Naples, Italy. The three years I stayed there had a lot of impact on me. With a mature enough brain to remember things, Italy has shown and taught me a lot. Things I have learned/experienced in Italy are:

  • I have traveled throughout Europe and gained a respect and love for travel.
  • Being in all Italian school I learned how to pick up languages easily (however I did forget Italian because it was a lot like spanish)
  • I learned that all people are very different and accepting them is 10^4089273094372409 easier than not accepting
  • I have become an Italian food snob- no Chef Boyardee for me.
  • Fun Fact: I was practically as blonde as possible when I lived there (I’ll find a pic)
  • In Italy we were robbed 5 separate times
  • While in Italy I hated living there. Being 4-7 years old I couldn’t appreciate the worldly experience I was getting and just wanted to have all english cartoons.

In 2001 our family moved back to Minnesota so we could be close to the rest of our family

Now that I am older, more mature I see that many people didn’t have a similar experience as me. I have grown to appreciate all of the moving around and I am thankful I was able to do all of this travel so young.

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