Why I do this Blog

You’ll read in that blog about my experiences during an exchange semester in Bologna and how my age (I am 33) helped me in some situations and made things more difficult in others. I think it is important to speak about that. Most students do that kind of experience when they are 10 or more years younger, which has some pros but because I was so nervous before my departure I also want to encourage woman who are like me. Not in the 20s anymore but because they weren’t able to do earlier, want to try out living abroad for a while. Of course some posts will be interesting for woman (and perhaps even men) in any age, who like to do such a thing, and I hope some just read it for entertaining issues (and some to find out what the hell I am doing), but my main focus right now is to make it easier for women in their 30s to do such a big step.

When you are a woman and turn 30, society still has the expectations that you should get marry (when not happened before) and get children. Or at least to have a nice career you follow. And some of us are quite happy to do the one thing or the other, but not all. Some of us have the feeling there is another life waiting for us but we may perhaps don’t know what kind of life this will be. I belong to that kind of women. I had a good job with some prospects, but it didn’t felt right, so I started university. I had a fiancé and a date for the wedding, but it didn’t felt right. Now I am 33, still student, because I work a lot next to my studies which slows me down, and started the biggest adventure of my life: living abroad. And guess what, it feels like the right thing to do.

This Blog is for women like me. I hope I can inspire one or two to fulfill their dreams, even when they have the feeling, they could be too old. In the end, it is only a number in a passport and we live much longer than we used hundreds of years before, so why should we not try out something new when we are in our 30s? Why settle at that age? Or at 40 or 50 or however old you are. When you’re still able to move around, go out in the world and see it. You never know when it is too late. I did it, it was not easy to get out of the comfort zone, but I made it and I am feeling great. And even if I wouldn’t, at least I would have tried.