I haven’t written for this blog in a long while. My last post ended with me expressing the desire I had already held for a while – a desire for change. I wanted – needed – something in my circumstances to change. As of that posting, I had been job-searching in Australia for five months….

I was told before coming to Australia not to view any of it as a failure. People told me that if I only lived here for six months, a year, and needed to return, that in no way would that be a failure. I would have experienced, learned, gone out on an adventure all on…

Many people have asked me how it’s going in Australia, how I like it here, what it’s like, etc. I never knew quite how to answer that – not until my flatmate handed me a piece of Extra gum. You see, Extra is the brand of gum that I would usually get in the States….

Last night as I lay in bed, I found myself asking, what on earth am I doing here? If I didn’t feel quite at home in the States, how much less so do I feel here? I was feeling some anxiety for what today held – I’m currently on a train headed away from my…

Three days ago, I touched down in Australia. My flight had been a glorious one, as I had a window seat with no one in the seat next to me – the dream scenario of someone who’s 6’ and mostly leg. Unfortunately, when I disembarked the plane, I realized I was feeling very much under…

In just under a week, I will be moving to Australia. Notice I didn’t say ‘I’ll be flying there’ or ‘I’ll be on my way.’ You see, while those phrases are the absolute truth, I don’t think they can begin to capture what it is I am preparing myself to do. In some ways, I’m…