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!