Well hello there!

I have found it fairly impossible to contribute to this blog, or even much care about it, but feel it is time to update my status..... much has changed.

So for those of you who care or are interested, read on...

I currently live in Denver, in a wonderful and beautiful apartment above a porn shop on Broadway. My neighborhood is so friendly and homely. The community I have always sought out to be a part of, I finally have. I walk down the street to greetings and hugs from the shop owners, neighbors, bar tenders, even the little Asian guy who owns the liquor store.

I have a wonderful job that I have been at for almost 4 months!!!! You must visit the website!!!!!

www.milehighbusinessalliance.org

My job intails me going into neighborhoods and talking with business owners about their businesses, but mostly about life. I have a boss and one co-worker, so needless to say it is super laid back.

I also just recently got a job offer to work for Agatha Kessler and Curtis Fentress. For those of you who dont recognize these names, they are extremely influential characters in the development, and architectural world, i.e. DIA, The Denver Convention Center, Invesco Field, and many many more...

www.fentressarchitects.com.

In fact I just had dinner at Mr. Fentress's pent house last night. I have been asked to join the sales team, selling high end luxury condominiums.

www.watermarkdenver.com

Understandably this is not an area I ever expected to be in, but this is the opportunity of a life time, and extremely flattering. Who knows, I may be the next Donal Trump! With much better hair of course.

So I am super good. Things are falling into place, and I feel blessed about my life, and all I have been afforded.

Hope all is well with you.

Peace, Beauty, Truth, and Love.

Amy

6 months later....

There are so many wonderful people in this world. So many wonderful things to see and to do that it overwhelms me to the point of paralysis at times.

I am becoming an adult, making new adult decisions and part of that brings the dilemma of how to keep meeting wonderful people and stay in close contact with the ones I’ve already met, but also succumb to the American way as far as insurance, financial stability and 401k’s?

Dilemma solved. I got a job with an airline….Frontier Airlines to be exact. Not the job of my dreams or even a job I had ever considered, however it combines the two goals of my mid 20’s life; finding stability and independence in an industry that allows me to fly for free and continue seeing the world, meeting the interesting characters of this human race, and maintain friendships around the world.

This is good.

This is my update.

This is my commentary.

Hum?

Amy E. K.

Today's Theme "LOVE"

I have moved to Denver Colorado. A lot of people are confused by this, seeing that I am IN LOVE with the UK, and IN LOVE with my friends who live there and all over Europe. But there are a few major reasons why I have chosen this place to live.

1. My grandmother is 92 going thru her 4th breast cancer, I want to be near her.
2. My 1 and only brother lives in the mountains merely 2 hours away, and I love him.
3. I can live with the love of my life, Atticus (my cat).
4. My folks are close and starting to get senile, so they need all the help they can get. ;-)
5. And lastly out of every city I have seen in the world; Sydney, Glassgow, Bangkok, London, Warsaw, Prague, NYC, Chicago, LA, etc…. Denver is my very favorite!

I love my new apartment, I love all the wonderful friends in my life, and I love getting "real" mail. So here's my new address in hopes that I will receive post cards and letters from around the world to put on my new fridge.

1110 Clarkson St. #5
Denver CO 80218
USA

Hope you are well. I will have new pictures posted shortly.

Amy
P.S. To those of you in Colorado, I’m still looking for a job, any leads?
Cheers!

Home Sweet Home

Where I come from people say..."Howdy!"

I'm Back :-o

dec. 3rd 06

My UK visa ran out and I am home in Colorado.

This is both good and bad; good because it is nice to be home and have nothing to do but just chill out for a while, but bad because my heart feel in love with the UK, and a lot of me is now torn between where I want to call home.

I did not have a chance to write blogs or stay in good touch with everyone, mostly because I worked so much at The Bear in Woodstock England.






Some may think that was a waste of my time to be in Europe for 6 months and work most of the time, I however have learned one major lesson traveling around the world….”It’s not WHERE you are, it’s WHO you’re with.” And my friends, I was with some amazing people in the little village of Woodstock, England. People who have made me proud of the human race, and more hopeful for it. Beautiful people so comical and caring, my jaw needs to be rewired from all the laughing and smiles.

I did however take a short 20 day vacation to Czech Republic and Poland. This was an amazing time for me, and I was able to accomplish a wish I have had for myself for a long time, I was able to see where my family comes from…Poland. On top of actually seeing the country I was able to spend time in the village my extraordinary Grandfather came from, met his side of the family, and discovered for my dad that he has 23 cousins alone on his father’s side! I obviously discovered much more interesting information about my family, and also was struck by irony the whole time I was there (Poland has a striking resemblance to Colorado.)






I also was able to spend time with friends in those countries, whom I made acquaintances from previous travels. I saw where they come from and how they live, and strengthened my relationship with them, and now can always have a community of friends in Eastern Europe.

Overall I come away from the past 6 months feeling better about life, than I ever thought I could. I am leaving Europe with amazing new friends, and amazing new outlooks. This time in my life may go down as being the best.

The next step for me is yet to be determined….thank god. With that being said I am enjoying living at my folks house for the first time in 6 years, I am also enjoying the winter wonderland outside the door and seeing Atticus,





and I am appreciating all that I have been giving from my family and friends in my home country, but also my friends and family from around the world. I am truly blessed and gracious for all that life has given me.

I hope this finds you all very well, and amped up for this holiday season. I will be available through these holidays so don’t be scared to call me for a get together, I want to take advantage of this little break from “the real world” to catch up with everyone I can.
303-838-6561 or 720-201-3702

With love and graciousness

Amy

Ok Ok this is the story!

OK it has been a long long time since I published a post. My excuses….
1. I work ALL the time.
2. When I’m not working I play all the time.
3. I have no internet connection.
4. This blogger is frustrating, and wont let me post all the many photos I want you to see, and thus I‘ve spent hours trying to get the blogger to work, and the frustration prevented me from coming up with new and creative ideas of getting my message out.

Enough of that, here’s the story. I have had the best time ever here. The travel has stopped, but I guess that’s because I feel so at home here. I have a family here that I adore. A family that brings me joy in ways that words can not come close to describing. (So I really wont try)
I have no big stories, revelations, or things to say really. But I want you to know who the people are in my life that have become family. The people I work with (10 different nationalities) who I have afternoon tea with, take walks in the palace with, party with, talk with, and spend all of my time with. This is my family in Woodstock England. This eclectic group has made this time in my life one of the happiest.

But people leave, because we all come from different places and in the end most of us will go home (the nationality that bonds us to a passport of only that country). My Polish girls were the first to leave, and life is different some how here. Many more of the polish group are going back home as well one by one, it’s sad. Siobhan is leaving back to Australia, and I’m torn. But these are the consequences of living in a transient world, and an international world. I was prepared for this. I write this blog more as a dedication to these people and to the time I had with them, and will continue to have forever.

I hope the rest of my family (all of you) are doing great. I have not heard from some of you in a while so please let me know what the story is. I love you all, thank god for different folks and their different strokes.
Amy

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Life in any location

Life in any location

It is amazing that living in a new country with new people and a new attitude you can still find yourself wrapped up in the everyday mundane-ness of existing. I still; like at home, have to remind myself that on any given day, in any given place, there is still the unknown, the unexplored, and the unimaginable, it is up to me and everyone to remember this always, and never give up hope that something/someone can shock us.

There is also, (for me especially) the thumping heart of human drama in every corner of this world. This may creep up on you some lazy Sunday afternoon, or one day sitting in the back yard reading a book in the sun, but where ever you are in the world the struggles of being human, the glory of being human, the pain, the love, the suffering, the confusion, the excitement, the lust will follow you everywhere.

This is what I have to say in my blog today. I have not seen any tourist land marks, no royalty, no mind blowing uniquely British monuments, no I have just been side cheeked with reality, and been given the opportunity to do with it what I can to make it an experience, and quite an experience it is….growing up that is.

Peace to you all, in this world in which we live in.

Amy

Amy is Settling IN.

For those for you who are really interested, I’ve got a long one this time…. For those of you not that interested, I’m doing great!

So woo wee this has been such an adventure. I have finally really settled down here in Woodstock England. I have my own room in the staff house and I’ve filled it with maps and books to make it feel more like home.

I work more that I thought I would be working, about 8-12 hours a day 5-6 days a week. But it is good for saving money to see the rest of the world. The work is good mostly, I love my wide variety of international customers, and the shocking amount of Americans that come to eat drink and stay at the Bear Hotel, love me, and I love them because they feel obligated to tip me like Americans do! Slowly but surly I am beginning to fit in with the very international staff (i.e. Latvia, Austraila, Scotland, Zimbabwe, Germany, Poland, Indonisia, Holland, and me the good old American).



This a picture of Freddy who is a local who comes in everyday for 3 hours drinks 3 pints of Gunnies, 2 pints of Stones Bitter, and of course 2 small glasses of water with lemon. He has been doing this everyday for 49 years, and recently turned 90. He is good company when it is rarely slow, and he loves to say “on your bike,” and that’s about all I get out of him.

Two weekends ago I went to Manchester with Ben Peace and my new friends, I had so much fun.



I am so grateful for Ben Peace and my new friends because it makes going to all these new places so much easier and fun.





This past weekend Ben came to stay with me in Woodstock, and we spent a night out in Oxford in search of friends for me, seeing that I really don’t have any here are the moment. But this task was not accomplished, however I was rewarded the next day by touring Blenheim Palace and it was amazing, and it is hard to imagine it is only a 3 min walk from my home, literally there is a 4,000 year old palace in my back yard.










If seeing the palace was not good enough I was able to see the Duke of Marlborough whom actually lives there (in the top hat)



AND….. PRINCE WILLIAM.





Yes the one day I happened to be at the actual Palace the future King Of England was there. I took way too many photos and videos, but oh my god how could I not?



I think he is looking at me in this photo!


England is different than America in that it surrounds you with the history and spirit of the human race, and its creations. Buildings built centuries before our country was founded, and relics of this history all around in the cobble stone streets, in the extended brick fence walls, in the crooked floors in buildings, and in the people themselves, whereas America is so new, and holds a different history more in the geography and the wildlife (at least in Colorado).
The history here fascinates me, and everyday I walk through the street s of England I feel like I am getting a history lesson. I have been reading a lot about the history of Woodstock and the surrounding area, and this town first began to be developed around the year 1100, by royalty…again…OH MY GOD!

The point is, that I love it here and remain to be very happy I live here. I will be heading to Scotland for a mini vacation with Ben in a week and look very forward to that. I’m sure I’ll have some great photos to show you all then, so till I post again, Love Peace and Happiness to you all.

Amy

Amy is working in England!

Sooo much to say, and so little effort to do so, but I promised
updates so here goes....
I spent about 5 days in London, and had a wonderful time with my ne
friend Sarah. I fell in love with Oxford and pursued jobs there, by
accident I stumbled upon a job in Woodstock England, about 8 miles
outside of Oxford, the website for it is as follows;

www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/bear.

I am now here after a few last nights of vacation where i got a new hair cut with Ben Peace, and went out, had fun and met wonderful men, smart, good looking, charming, and gay (sorry mom), a blast before my new job. So here I am for now, a bar tender at this very high class hotel. I am living with my co-workers, all from other countries as
well. So this is where I am. I have contact information now;

address:
the bear hotel
c/o amy krok
park street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SZ

phone:
011 44 7726 407000

so give me a little love if you have the time and money, I should be
here for a while, I'm ready to work and live in England for as long as
I can to save money to see the rest of the world.

love you all
sorry for the lack of detail, grammar, and enthitasim, im exusted!

amy

ps i posted few photos, I have not taken much but hopefully this will
give you an idea

Amy's First week in England

So I have now been here a week and already I am having the best time ever. Thus far I have participated in a cabaret show, danced till the sun came up, went to a medieval event underground with 500 of my closest friends and me as a medieval princess, came in second in a bar trivia night, and dined at some very interesting new restaurants. I have stayed in Leeds, York, Oxford, and am currently in London with a friend of a friend. I have been welcomed to this country with open arms and have meet so many wonderful people and already have made some good friends.

The plan for me in the next week is to go through the necessary procedures to find and job and move to Oxford. Oxford is the most amazing town to me, small quaint full of wonderful cafe, art, a diverse population, and plenty of events and lectures at the University, and it is a hub for local and international bands. I chose to live there for all those reasons, but also because of the cheaper cost of living compared to London, and it is only an hours train ride to London for weekend trips to visit my new friends. I hope it works out up there for me, and if it does I will shortly have an address and phone so you can all keep me company from over seas.
So all and all this was the best decision I could have made for myself for after college, and I can' wait to see all the other crazy things I'm about to see.

Love you all and keep emailing me, it is good to hear what's going on in your lives. I will post pictures when I have more time.

Amy