Inatteso is Italian for unexpected, and that's the word I would use to describe my life in Boston - I'd even go back as far as when I started dating Kate. And in each of these cases unexpected doesn't mean bad - it's just not been what I had expected. Kate has been getting lovelier and lovelier every day since we started dating - there's more and more and more I find out about her that I adore and makes me so happy I'm dating her.
Boston has been good...well, at least been okay. Life after college has definitely been unexpected - Boston's expensive and it's not easy to find a new place to stay when you know so few people and have so very little money. I think I expected to move right out of college into my own place with my own silverware and my own refrigerator - but no - I'm sharing again; eating off of unmatched plates, fighting to find towel drying space, walking around quietly in the mornings as to not wake your roommates...it's just not what I had expected.
And life in Boston is good because I've learned a lot. I've learned I'm not quite ready to live in the city without a job. And yes, there are more people, but making new friends is harder than it seems - especially coming in completely new to a place where everyone else has their friend groups set and it ends up that you're just "tagging along" - or so it seems.
So unexpected - but seeing God's grace through these experiences? definitely expected. Jesus is the friend who always accepts - you know, it's nice too that He goes wherever you happen to go too! haha
If anything, Boston has gotten me back in the swing of talking and meeting with God - maybe that's just an out-of-college thing. Well one other thing - spending time with Najeh (our muslim roommate) I've learned a little more about Islam and will learn more en chalah.
