I am in LOVE!!!

Dear Readers,
Sorry for not keeping you updated on every waking minute of my life. I have been a little busy. Last weekend I went to Chicago to visit some cooking schools and hopefully plan out the rest of my life. One of those things happened....
I visited the cooking school. But I am still unsure about the rest of my life.
I know one thing though. I love Chicago. I absolutely love Chicago. I don't know how I could go anywhere different from that city. We walked around town for two days and I just fell in love. There is no other way to describe it. When we drove up to the city my mouth was so far open an army of tiny plastic soldiers could have marched right in and I won't have even noticed.
I am in love!!!
Being in the city just felt so right. I can definitely see my self living there.
And not only is it a super amazing city, there are so many opportunities in the culinary field there.There are so many more opportunities then here in dinky little middle of no where Iowa. The two just can't even compare.
I have been in love with food and books before, but this is a new sort of love. I love that draws me towards the city. A love that excites me about my future and my new life in this wonderful city. Before this I was sort of dragging my feet about finding a college and planning out my life, but now I know that I am meant to be in Chicago. I am meant to live in this glorious city. Its beauty, its excitement, its everything just make want to finish high school that much faster. It makes me want to live this hick ville and move on to something bigger and better. And hopefully after Chicago I can go even bigger and better. I am talking Paris baby! Paris has been my dream for a few years now. After watching the movie Julie and Julia (Which is an amazing movie, and if you haven't seen it drop everything right now and go watch it) I have been inspired to go bake in Paris. It is the end all be all of what I want to do with my life. There is nothing I want to do more than eventually live in Paris.
Now I am getting ahead of myself. I need to remember that I need to got to college and get some money, so Chicago will suffice while I am in the states. It will do more than suffice. It will make my cup runeth over. I will be living everyday in the city I love and it will be bliss. Not to mention that I will be spending my time in a school bettering my culinary skills, and honestly I don't know if I could be in the kitchen and not happy. So now I am looking my future with a strange optimism that has been welling up inside of for a while. Maybe this city, maybe this cooking schools, maybe all of the things that are filling my life with such joy will change my view to a glass half full instead of a glass half empty view of the world. So stay tuned and see if a new found love can change a very pessimistic girl into an optimistic person. \
Love,
Lindsey