There are many things that i miss from back home, people, things and places, but lately i can't stop thinking about a specific time in my life, college. I miss driving to the train station, waiting for the train, listening to music during my commute to school, then walking to class. I miss sitting in tho[...]

After a fail day at the gym, the girls and i decided to go to "tropical island", the code word we use for "beach" because apparently every time we say "let's go to the beach" the sun hears us and when we get there it's always cloudy/windy. We've been trying to get our tan on for the past few weeks but Okinawa weather is bipolar. Yesterday and today were b[...]

8.5x11 poster by littlelifehandmades The little piece of advice i want to share is "Bloom Where You Are Planted". If there's one thing i've learned from living abroad, away from all our friends and family, is that you have to try and be happy wherever you are and no matter what's happening around you. Life doesn't always turn out how we hoped it would, b[...]

Yesterday's topic was "What do You do?" ... Well jobs here in Okinawa are bad and hard to come by, so for the past couple of months i've been nesting, making our apartment feel like a home little by little. We came here with nothing but a comfortable mattress and since September we have gotten rid of most of our government furniture. We got a nice, big[...]

This is Isabella, the blogger friend i will publicly profess my love to, on this post :)  We got to know each other through Tumblr a couple of years ago. We are both military spouses and Tumblr has a big community of us that like to help each other out. She's German/Brazilian ... what a combination right?! She speaks German, English, Portuguese,[...]