Hello World Part 1 (100 Day Photo Challenge!)

Day 8: Last Place You Traveled to

I have been waiting for this post.  I have been more than excited to get this one up.  :)

The last place I traveled to was...CHICAGO!  Let me just say that it was so much fun!  My reason for this trip was a job/working interview.  Although I ended up turning the job down the experience was something I'll never forget.

With this trip came a lot of firsts.  It was my first time flying on an airplane, it was my first time traveling out of state alone, it was my first REAL trip away from my parents and family, it was my first time in Chicago, it was my first look at the job that I am about to start doing.  Can I just say that I was a little scared, a little nervous, and a little stressed out.

My friends and family can vouch for me...I was really scared of flying.  I had pretty much talked myself into believing that I would be the first person to ever end up in Russia (why Russia I don't know) without a passport.  I was so afraid of flying that I completely forgot about the scary interview that was looming in the near future.  In fact, it wasn't until I saw the man at the end of the escalator, in the Midway airport, holding a sign with my name on it that I actually realized what I had gone to Chicago for in the first place.  Seeing this man, whom I had never met or talked to before, standing there waiting for ME, really knocked some sense into me.  This was not just going to be all fun and games.  I was here for a serious reason.  Was my hair in place?  Did I have bags under my eyes from not sleeping the night before?  Oh my gosh! Did I forget my carryon on the plane?!  (I didn't forget it...don't worry)

As this mysterious man drove me to the place I could have gotten a job at I became increasingly nervous.  What would my future "boss" be like?  What would my room look like?  What would I be doing during my 3 day stay?  What else was I supposed to worry about that I wasn't worrying about?  Is this driver going to get us killed?  He's driving really fast!

  All in all the interview was very good.  It was not something I should have been nervous about.  Even though the job is something that would have been so absolutly amazing that I can't even picture it...it wasn't for me.  The whole time I was in Chicago I couldn't even imagine myself living there.  The city was lovely, the people I would have been working for even more lovely.  But it was not the lifestyle I was looking for. 

So I came home.  I was now an experienced flyer and the plane no longer sent gitters of fear through my body (that is until the person sitting next to me started to tell me scary plane stories)  But now I'm home.  I'm sitting in my old bedroom, I'm with my beautiful family, and I'm still awaiting another interview from different people in a different state.  I'm less nervous about my future and more excited.  Thanks to Chicago, and the people I met there, I am now even more ready for the life I'm about to begin.

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I cannot take credit for those photos.  Here is where I found them.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wjbc.com/files/2011/01/MidwayAirportGetty.jpg

http://listenlearnmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Friday-Fave-Weekend-in-Chicago.jpg

http://www.chicagomag.com/images/2011/0111/C201101-DE-Lincoln-Park-house.jpg

http://www.chitowndining.com/www.chitowndining.com/images/large/lincoln-park-neighborhood-590x385.jpg