Marianne McPhee.
I was born in London and spent my young childhood in the city and Hertfordshire. At age 11 I moved with my parents to New York City, briefly, and Long Island, NY.
By age 12 I was living in Severna Park, Maryland: USA suburbia in all its fine stereotypes. I spent six good years there, going to middle school and high school before heading to Boston University to gain my Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations.
At university I spent my time studying, volunteering, and working while slowly starting my return to England through a summer and a semester of internships in London (and a month of backpacking around Europe) before graduation.
After that happy day when they handed me my diploma I jetted back to London to work for a summer before flying off to Thailand to teach English to high school kids for one term.
After teaching and traveling to Laos, Cambodia and (briefly) Australia, I returned to England, and after a three week trip to the States to visit old friends and family, I settled in to a travel marketing internship at a great company called Black Tomato. Meanwhile, I became one of the very lucky £10 Poms of 2009. So after a three month internship, I headed Down Under for about 5 months.
Now I’m back in London, back working for Black Tomato where I get to talk about travel, blogging and social media all day. What a job.
So keep checking my blog to see what I’m up to now!
The quote you used for Filling the Pages by St. Augustine is absolutely fabulous! Cheers!
New look is excellent!
This is one of those things that makes me wneodr whether I’m some sort of freak even though as a kid I thought climbing Ayers Rock one day would be neat, when I learnt as an adult that the tribal owners felt that it was a desecration of Uluru then that was the end of that ambition, totally. As soon as I learnt that a whim of mine would cause emotional/spiritual pain to othes, then that whim evaporated. I simply cannot grok people who dress whims up as dreams and then act like they have a special right to see these dreams come true.Sure, one’s needs may sometimes require over-riding the sensitivities of others. A very strong ambition for a long term goal that will make a big difference to a lot of people could be a want that one might decide is worth pursuing over the opposition of others. But placing the fulfilment of a fucking whim over the deep and abiding objections of other people? It’s just fucking rude.