Monday, December 14, 2009
FLIGHT BOOKED!!
So it has been quite some time since my last post, as not much has happened on the Oz front. The only big step was getting rid of my cat Bongo, which I did back in October, but I didn't want to make a post of that because this is a happy blog! However, today the largest step to date was made... I purchased the flight!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I will now do more posting as I prepare for quite possibly the longest flight in the history of flights. I hope my 2 followers... Dad... and Vikki, will appreciate my hard work!
Monday, October 5, 2009
My very first post on my very first blog!!
Hi to all who have stumbled across my blog. I have decided to create this blog to capture my adventure to Australia... from the very beginning. I will be leaving in January, it is now October I have a little time to get things sorted out. You may be asking why Australia? Why now? What are you thinking? And yes I have asked myself the very same questions... many times, and the answer is simple... why not? Allow me to fill you in on the coles notes version as to why....
I have always wanted to travel and explore the world. I studied geography in University and have always loved nature and the outdoors. I remember one evening walking through campus in 3rd year and seeing a stack of SWAP flyers (students, working, abroad, program) on a table. I picked one up to read while I was waiting for the bus. Inside were all these countries that you could choose to travel to, and as I looked through the flyer I just got a feeling that this seemed like something I needed to do. As soon as I looked at the page for Australia I knew that was the country for me! I can't really explain it but I knew out of all the countries that was the one I wanted to go to. Ever since that day it has been a dream on mine. It started out as something I wanted to do after university... before getting settled to a full time career and starting the full adult life.
I have now been out of university for 2 years, you may be wondering why have I not done this yet? Well there are a few reasons. My dream of traveling to Australia began to take a back seat to my life as other things were going on at the time. After university I moved in with my now ex boyfriend lets call him Mr. X. Anyways, at the time I was excited for this and thought it was what I wanted. We planned on traveling to Australia together, as I had let him know about this dream of mine. We needed to save up some money and he had a large student debt so we decided waiting until this was more under control was the logical thing to do. After a year of living together our relationship ended, during this time I now see I gave up a lot of what I had wanted and was content with just hanging out the 2 of us each night, not really doing anything with my life. I always kept this dream of Australia in the back of my mind, but more and more it began to feel like it wouldn't happen. After the break up I moved in with a friend, and was feeling like I had no idea what to do with my life. This was in March, after a few months of wallowing in my own pity along came Canada day. This was the day that I decided I was going to travel to Australia... FOR REAL! I put away all the reasons I can't and decided that this is something I want to do, and now is the time to do it. And here we are in October.
So I hope that this blog is a fun tale of my journey, I can't believe that I am going to be doing this! These next few months are where I have to prepare everything and I will update on all the happenings on my journey... Hope you enjoy!
I have always wanted to travel and explore the world. I studied geography in University and have always loved nature and the outdoors. I remember one evening walking through campus in 3rd year and seeing a stack of SWAP flyers (students, working, abroad, program) on a table. I picked one up to read while I was waiting for the bus. Inside were all these countries that you could choose to travel to, and as I looked through the flyer I just got a feeling that this seemed like something I needed to do. As soon as I looked at the page for Australia I knew that was the country for me! I can't really explain it but I knew out of all the countries that was the one I wanted to go to. Ever since that day it has been a dream on mine. It started out as something I wanted to do after university... before getting settled to a full time career and starting the full adult life.
I have now been out of university for 2 years, you may be wondering why have I not done this yet? Well there are a few reasons. My dream of traveling to Australia began to take a back seat to my life as other things were going on at the time. After university I moved in with my now ex boyfriend lets call him Mr. X. Anyways, at the time I was excited for this and thought it was what I wanted. We planned on traveling to Australia together, as I had let him know about this dream of mine. We needed to save up some money and he had a large student debt so we decided waiting until this was more under control was the logical thing to do. After a year of living together our relationship ended, during this time I now see I gave up a lot of what I had wanted and was content with just hanging out the 2 of us each night, not really doing anything with my life. I always kept this dream of Australia in the back of my mind, but more and more it began to feel like it wouldn't happen. After the break up I moved in with a friend, and was feeling like I had no idea what to do with my life. This was in March, after a few months of wallowing in my own pity along came Canada day. This was the day that I decided I was going to travel to Australia... FOR REAL! I put away all the reasons I can't and decided that this is something I want to do, and now is the time to do it. And here we are in October.
So I hope that this blog is a fun tale of my journey, I can't believe that I am going to be doing this! These next few months are where I have to prepare everything and I will update on all the happenings on my journey... Hope you enjoy!
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