strategy

being new to a city can be tricky.
it is hard to move across the country, learn new routines, and begin a job. it is easy to miss all the old habits and comforts from home.

something i realized very quickly though is that a good strategy to combat the loneliness of all the above is to move in with two other ladies who are in the same situation as me and will have no choice but to be my friend. :)

enter roommates sally and amanda. lots of people have asked me where i came across roommates in a city i had never been to. craigslist was a little too scary for my taste, so i went for the next best thing in a 20-somethings life... facebook!

facebook has an application entitled the "market place." People can buy and sell nearly anything on this site--including themselves. so i decided to advertise myself as someone in need of roommates. i found a cute picture of myself, wrote a clever description, and waited. within hours i had many replies, but the first one to catch my eye was miss. amanda from down south.

amanda too had decided to join the americorps and was going to be working in the mayor's office. she is loud, articulate, kind, and full of positive energy. she did much of the leg work in looking for places to live and found us our fabulous (sometimes interesting) apt. amanda even volunteered to leave work early and pick me up at the airport the night i moved to nyc.

after a couple more days of sifting offers to join our team, i got an email from a young woman named sally. sally is a fashionista. she has survived fashion internships that would make you laugh, cry, and shudder. sally is quiet, sweet, generous, and creative. her heroic tales of the subway provide us with nightly humor.

new city, new friends, new adventures. not a bad start.