My name is Joshua and I am from Jackson, MS. I was born in Greenville, MS but raised for the most part of my life in Jackson, MS. I am currently a senior in college majoring in Software Engineering and Networking. Since my first year of high school in 2007, there has always been this urge to venture out from my homeland into a place completely different. After searching online over the years of various places, I found that the Dominican Republic sounded like a perfect fit for me. A place where people are hard-working yet humble-minded. Most of the things that make up that society are simple, and not as complex as where I live currently. Since middle school, I have been learning the spanish language and I'm pretty confident in my speaking, reading, and writing skills. It seems listening and comprehending is my only weak point as of now. I started practicing listening using a language learning site called livemocha in an effort to improve my listening comprehension with people. Many people normally spoke in their regular everyday rate of speed, and others were not consistent with me but I pressed on in my efforts to try to learn to understand. After two years of talking with various spanish speakers, I came across someone who taught differently and willingly started practicing regularly with me on a weekly basis. She was very patient, speaking slowly and relaying information in a way that I could understand. Naturally as we practiced, we started to learn more things about each other, our interests, life experiences, decisions we would make based on various situations, and life goals. After 5-6 months, we gradually became attracted to each other, and decided to start talking more outside of just learning the language. It got the point where we were writing to each other daily and speaking occasionally. As we mentioned about what we wanted in a relationship and long-term goals for having one, we noticed that much of what we were looking for matched up. With that, we decided to start a serious long-distance relationship, though it sounded very crazy at the time and it still does lol. It is my very first relationship, and both our first relationship by only phone and internet lol. Since February 3, 2011 we have become a part of each others daily life, consistently speaking to each other on a daily basis. We have kept our relationship secret from family and friends to prevent unwanted attention, and because we are both still in the process of trying to stabilize ourselves financially. All that has past so far we have credited to God, because he has blessed us both with the patience to be enduring our unique situation day by day. We eventually spent some time together for the first time in New York at church in January 2013. Since that great experience, she has mentioned to her mother about our mutual interest and her mother invited me to come stay with them so I can get to know the family. I will be traveling there after my graduation this May of 2014. The relationship looks bright right now as it does has its own unique problems, but we are continuing to take everything very slowly day by day. I hope to get to really know her more on my stay in their house as that is the only sure way to get an idea of how she is around me and around her family. So for now, I have two reasons to look to the country, a new home and a possible future spouse. Which brings me here to the forum, I hope to meet some great friends, build some lasting bonds, and hope they will offer me various advice that will help me adapt to my future home. I am very intelligent, outgoing, interesting, funny, and enjoy doing lots of things. Some of my favorite hobbies include tinkering with computer hardware, playing sports, enjoying nature, learning new things, and meeting new people. Though at times I am stubborn, overall I have a excellent personality, shaped from having a mindset of reading and applying things I have read from the bible that partain to my life. Oh yeah and I really hate writing, but yet I always manage to write novels when I am inspired and feel strongly about something lol.
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