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A Small Town Girl (from Ohio) Moves to the Big City (Atlanta)!

6/1/2017

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Hello everybody! Wow! A lot has happened since I talked to you last, exactly three weeks ago;
Monday marked a week since we packed up Nick's car, said goodbye to everyone we know, and took off for a new life in Atlanta!
It has been terrifying, stressful, exhausting, and emotional to say the least!
Today I finally found some free time to share with you guys how our move went, and just what has been going on with us since the move! 
(P.S If you want to keep up with our every day lives during this adventure, and be the first to know what's happening, be sure to follow me on Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat (jessicalapinta), I have been posting like crazy lately.

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 Saying goodbye to my family on Monday morning was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Me and Nick are both very close to my family, and have been living with them for the last year, so leaving them was rough. The ten hour drive was hard. I cried a lot, and felt very uncertain, and emotional.
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Our plan was to stay at an extended stay hotel for a couple weeks until we got jobs and an apartment (since you can't get an apartment without having a job, and it's very difficult to get a job in a place you do not live!).
The extended stay we were going to stay at closed their office at 4:00 p.m, unless you called to let them know you would be checking in after that. And since we were going to be later than 4 p.m, we called them. And called them, and called them and called. Almost the entire drive, we were trying to get ahold of them, and absolutely could not. So! We stopped at a Dunkin Donuts outside of Atlanta, got some food, and tried to figure out what to do. I must admit, I was very emotional, exhausted from the ten hour drive, and stressed out. Then at that moment I got a text from my mom, so of course I started crying! We sat on our phones in Dunkin Donuts and finally found a hotel nearby that had rooms available. It was a nice hotel and it had a pool. So we did some well deserved relaxing.
On Tuesday morning we left our hotel, then drove about forty five minutes to get into Atlanta. We got to the extended stay, only to find that we would most likely be murdered if we actually stayed there! 
Again, not knowing what to do, we went to a McDonalds, and sat outside to eat. There were a couple homeless guys outside also. I said something about the homeless guys to Nick and then all of a sudden I think, "We're homeless!" More tears!
Enter Matt to save the day! Our good friend Matt lives in Atlanta, and he gets ahold of us and tells us that the next day his roommate is leaving for a week and a half, and we can stay in his room until he gets back! 
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We couldn't move in until the next day, so we found another hotel to stay at. It was pretty nice, but it was the smallest hotel room I have every stayed in! 

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Later that afternoon after we checked into the hotel, I had a job interview. I was hired on the spot!
The place is called Honey Bubble, and it is the cutest little Asian bubble tea shop! 
You may remember how obsessed I am with bubble tea from my blog post about it.


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That night to celebrate, we walked from our hotel to the most amazing little Cuban restaurant called Papi's. It was so perfect, relaxing, and exactly what we needed to lift our spirits.
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The next morning we checked out of our hotel, headed on over to Decatur where our friend lives, and unpacked our life! We now had a home (for the next week and a half)!
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After unpacking I got dressed, and then headed on over to Honey Bubble for my first shift! Since then the only days I have had off was Saturday and today.
Since I have been working pretty nonstop, I sadly haven't really had a chance to explore. So on Saturday our friend Matt took us out! 
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Since me and Matt are both obsessed with China, our first stop was the Great Wall Supermarket! This place was insane; It was an Asian supermarket, with a Chinese food court inside! It was all authentic Chinese food, some of the menus didn't even have English writing. We stuffed ourselves with sweet and sour fish, beef noodle soup, ma po tofu, dumplings, rice, and hot tea. I was in Heaven! And Nick finally got to experience authentic Chinese food.
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Our next stop was Sweet Hut Bakery and Cafe where we had Chinese pastries and bubble tea. We also stopped at two farmers markets which were crazy exciting, then spent the rest of the day driving around looking at different parts of town.
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So that pretty much sums up our move from Ohio to Atlanta!
How am I feeling about everything? Well, I'll let you know when I figure it out...
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​Peace Love and Atlanta
Jess <3


4 Comments
Autumn link
6/1/2017 10:20:04 pm

Welcome to Atlanta! The food here is awesome and I hope you love it! We moved here five years ago and it took me a bit to adjust to the traffic, but now I'm in love :)

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China Barbie link
6/5/2017 03:58:07 pm

Thank you so much Autumn! I am very excited about the food already, and as for the traffic, my husband drives everywhere for now hahaha.
Thanks again!

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Mumsies
6/3/2017 07:40:52 pm

Hey Sweetie I really enjoyed ur blog. :) Love u lots

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China Barbie link
6/5/2017 04:46:30 pm

Thank you Mumsies!!! I love you too, and miss you!

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