This Young Life

Why this young life?
Because I am so young but I can say confidently that I have been living my life to the fullest since age sixteen. That was the year I would be forever changed, blessed by God to receive a prestigious scholarship to spend a year abroad in Germany. There I would meet my future fiancé, whom I love so fully that words could not possibly express my ardor.
My very conservative parents, by some stroke of chance, allowed me to go and I am forever grateful for that. In recent years our relationship is less than pleasant, they don't understand my "abnormal life path." These days they mostly are focusing on getting my younger sisters Anna and Aria, twins runs in our family, into college.
My dads name is Anders. Are you noticing a name pattern?
The less attention on me, probably the better.
I guess a big inspiration for my blog is that I have been reading expat blogs of a lot of other American women in Europe who have received a lot of positive feedback. This year I am living* with a wealthy-ish Russian family St.Petersburg, I guess i thought it would be an interesting experience since I also studied Russian in high school. It's certainly proving to be interesting. I guess mostly here (in the blog) i'll talk about the events that led me to be here. Those experiences were certainly different than most.

*living with them aka being an au pair

about my last name
Bjorklund is not German (americans often ask me if my last name is german, gah!). My dad is from Sweden, blonde hair, blue eyes and everything. My mother is just extremely American from Sacramento. I can best describe her as chocolate brown and petite, and kind of boring 

p.s. who can guess my age?