I LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY

hi everyone,

just thought i’d update you on a very spontaneous and barely planned turn of events in my life. so first of all my laptop keyboard is so annoying i have to press so hard for them to work, so have to get that fixed. love that.

right now i’m writing to you from the living room of my new york city apartment, in Manhattan, which i moved in two days ago! i can’t begin to explain how strange these past weeks have been, in the very best way. i decided to move here since none of my other plans of starting school or moving to London were going to happen this year due to different circumstances. so far, best decision i’ve made, but also definitely the scariest. i don’t know many people here, everything is pretty much new to me when it comes to american ways of living (its a little different in every state) and it smells. but i love it so far. everyone tells me that new york can also be very lonely, and i do believe them but right now i’m just so excited to be here and i hope that feeling, in some ways, never wears off.

i started a job here with a Finnish well-known fashion label and after this past year i feel like i’m finally in a place i belong in again. have not felt that since living in australia. i will be working here as a freelance creative, but still have to figure out how to go about it, since everything is different here.

first week i got here my roommate invited me and my friends to stand-in-model for the Thom Browne show at New York City Fashion Week. it was the best and most random way to celebrate this new chapter in my life!

i feel like this place will be home to me.

emilia leah