Expectations

February 2008, and I started to have my first demented notions that perhaps a move to Australia was on the cards. Not forever, just to see if the magnificent country that everyone raves about so much is all it's cracked up to be.

And so I started saving. Every spare penny I had went into a savings account. Some got pulled out again for car maintainence, but most of it stayed in there. I booked the ticket in July to leave in October. Got promoted in August. Decided in September that I'd stay and give the job a chance. Australia turned into a holiday in January. End of October, decided that wasn't the way to go, so left family, home and job and arrived in Australia on December 9th 2008. That's 10 months. 10 months of aiming for this one day, of saving for this one day when I'd get on a long haul flight.

The only way I could handle it is by saying 'Just get yourself there. Once you're there, concentrate on the rest'. It was just such huge thing to think about on a complete scale that I was overwhelmed by it all, and making it just about getting on the plane was my way of not freaking out.

So, it's January 2009 now. I'm here. I've been here for about 6 weeks now, chilling out, taking it all in. The country is super, the people are lovely and the weather is out of this world! All the time though, people ask me 'So, what's next then?'.

Well? What is next?

No idea. I'm job hunting at the moment....Can I come back to you on everything else???