Berlin: My Fill-in-the-Blank Residency

The challenge: bring a carry on size suitcase for 2 months

I'm heading to Berlin today for two months. A lot of family members have asked: Why? To which I answer: Why not?

Also...I fell in love with the city of Berlin, Germany four years ago when I visited my friends who'd moved there from NYC. I learned many things, which you can read about in a post on my 100 First Dates blog here.

I couldn't get Berlin out of my head because it captured my heart. I knew I had to live there someday. Today is that day. 

My boyfriend who's coming with me is an artist. Whenever he travels for long periods of time he calls it his photography/film "residency". I laughed the first I heard him use such a formal title for what I considered an extended trip, but he's right. A residency is a time to get away from routine life and reflect, explore, and create. That is what I will be doing.

So what to call my time in Berlin?

- creative residency?

- exploration residency?

- acting/writing residency?

- drinking beer residency? (let's be real it's GERMANY)

I've decided to call it my Fill-in-the-Blank Residency.

Because the most important thing is that I'm leaving my routine life. And that opens me up to blanks - unknown, unnumbered possibilities.