March Recap & What's to Come
A monthly spent completely in Trieste, where time with friends and slowing down were prioritized over all else.
It’s rare we have a month that I don’t even go to a neighboring town but that’s exactly what happened in March. Other than little ventures to the hills surrounding Trieste, I stayed firmly in the city.
Weird. But good.
It meant more time hanging with our friends, enjoying the sun on the rare days it came out, getting into Reformer Pilates more, and trying to get even more serious with my Italian study.
Side note: for those learning a language or preparing for that possibility, Italian is the 2nd language I’ve learned as an adult, Spanish is the 1st. I think the best practice possible is just throwing yourself into a “sink or swim” situation and forcing yourself to speak. In addition to this, I’ve also been enrolled in an in-person language school the past year. This month I decided to step it up a bit and have started to make my own “language book” where I’m slowly creating chapters based on specific parts of grammar I’m having a hard time memorizing. It’s not fun and makes my brain feel gooey but has been paying off.
We’ve also spent a lot of time daydreaming about our future apartment and how we’ll decorate it. In case you missed it, we bought an apartment in Belluno and get the keys the end of April. We’re super excited about our first ever home together and having all design choices left to us. But are also nervous about the reality that we only own 2 desks, 2 office chairs, a TV, and a hammock and what furnishing an entire apartment will actually entail.
I also made a new friend which really just pisses me off. Hear me out - we do have a small group of friends here that I care about but have had some trouble meeting people that live in the city (most of our friends live in the outskirts so it makes meeting for coffees or a random drink after work tough). This girl I met at Pilates and it was a quick and easy connection. We met for a coffee today and had a really nice time - conversation flowed, our senses of humor were similar, you get the idea.
All of you who have moved around know this feeling and how much you want to cling to it. So the fact that this connection happened in our last month of living here is a bit of a bummer. I’ll still hopefully see her a few times before we move because a friend is a friend but I do wish we met 2 years ago when we both moved here.
New on the Site
I published 3 new articles on the site this month. It was inadvertently a very heavy European-centric month but if that’s where you’re looking to move, you’re in luck! In case you missed them, check out:
Coming Up in April
For April, I plan to update some of the round-up guides I have on the best places to teach English and where to live in different regions. These are all now from 2024 and 2025 so deserve a recap.
Otherwise, I have a few new articles in the queue from writers around the world that I’ll get published as well.
As for what’s to come for Substack, I’m considering a few different topics but will likely let my heart take me where it wants to go the moment I sit down to start writing. If you’d prefer to guide me in a particular direction, let me know what you have in mind and I can try and accommodate. I’m here for you so don’t hesitate.
Until next week!
Kat