Re-Wind then Fast forward..

* Re-wind back to November 23rd 2015 *

Hello, It's me.

I was wondering if things would have changed in the last month since my last post and yes they have. Apart from Adele releasing new music that is absolutely magical, I decided to withdraw from my course. Yep, to a few people they thought I was crazy, but to a surprising amount of others both in and out of the industry have said its probably one of the best things I could have done. So now Im just focusing on saving for that trip that I'm still planning on taking next year, its times like this I wish money grew on trees, but unfortunately thats not the case. So working hard seems to be the only way to get there.


(Thats all i managed to type out for that post and its been sitting in my drafts ever since)

* Fast forward to now *

First of all, its been a year since Adele released 'Hello'..... what?

So almost 1 year since I started this post and over a year since this blog saw any love from me, I've been pretty busy. Busy planning, busy working to afford and busy trying to pay off what will be an epic holiday thats going to be commencing in 2.5 weeks!

Yep thats right, in the last 12 months since we last spoke I have (with a good friend of mine) planned a massive almost 7 week holiday to the U.S.A which is going to be worth all the hours and hours of work and energy I have put in this year, ohh and not to mention the lack of sleep I have had in the working hard to save save save process. But finally we are at the business end and I'm so excited! I wont believe its finally happening until I'm on that plane halfway around the world, when I know I don't have any work and just pure leisure for 6.5 weeks! Don't get me wrong, as soon as I land back in Australia I will be jumping straight into 2 weeks straight of Work for the 2017 Australian Open which is always a combination of awesome fun, hard work and eventually a little bit of Insanity, but its worth it!

But enough work talk and back to the topic of my trip, which did I mention I'm SOOOO excited about! This trip has been in the making since February this year and it seems like its going to be pretty wonderful! It starts in the wonderful city of San Francisco and eventually ends in the city of Miami! In between those two wonderful cities will be a number of other cities, amazing sights and food, A Christmas in Chicago (with snow hopefully) and a New Years celebration in the Big apple!
Im hoping to document majority of my trip through here with stories and blog posts (which I have high hopes of doing but will probably be to busy enjoying life to actually post) and through my instagram for the visual aspect! @ihaveabearhat if anyone wants to keep up with me on there!

And obviously within the last 24hrs of this post Donald Trump has been elected as the new president of the US which concerns me quite a bit... Luckily for me I will be there before he gets officially sworn in but I can still see that there is probably going to be a bit of conflict and distress amongst the people for America over the coming months which we will probably at some stage witness firsthand while we are over there.
I just hope that nothing to extreme happens with the American people and that over the next 4 years everyone working with Trump helps talk some sense into that man!

I'll (hopefully) keep you all up to date with the trip as it happens!

Until next time lovelies.

x.

Life 2.0

Hey Guys,

Well now, I find myself here yet again, and this time its 18 months after my last Life post. In the last 18 months I have done quite a bit with my life I've moved house twice, Moved up quite a bit in my job and I have been to Europe and back for a 3 week holiday to meet family members I have never met before in my life so in some aspects I have moved forward but in other aspects of my life I haven't gotten very far. 

In my last 'Life' post I wrote about how people who are studying are always complaining about having to study and do assessments and how I hated all of that and that I am a much more hands on learner.. Well guess what, in the last 4 months I have found myself back at it, studying Events Management... now at the time I thought it would be a great idea (well it was the only idea I had and I thought I should see how it goes) and now just over a term in I'm starting to regret starting the course, not because of the teachers or how its taught but what they are actually teaching.
I have been fortunate enough to be working in hospitality at a Major Stadium in Melbourne for the past 2 years and its been a fantastic experience, what the job has taught me and the situations it has exposed me to, some have been life changing and thats where I'm stuck with this course, what they are teaching me in the classroom on a piece of paper I have learnt in the last 2 years at my job, now don't get me wrong I understand they have to teach this content as some of the people in my class have never been exposed to any of these kinds of situations but for me I have already been through majority of them..

So this is where I'm currently at, do a stay doing the course which is costing me quite a lot of money to learn a few new skills or do I step away from it and learn through life experience..?
That gets me to my next point of this post..

All my life I have wanted to travel & explore the world which I have been fortunate enough to do on a few occasions already in my life, and at this point in time it seems that travel is just filling up almost every part of my thoughts for the last month or so. I'm 23 years old and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up so I think while I'm young I should see as much of the world as I can before I settle down to a 'normal life' but I don't think my life will ever be fully normal, what is normal anyway?
So that is yet another reason why I want to leave my course so I can work as much as possible to fund my travel desires. One thing that has sparked the travel bug in me apart from going to Europe last year and meeting all my family over there and the fact that every man and his dog has gone on a holiday this year is this little gem of a video that was uploaded to youtube just over 2 weeks ago taken by a guy named Logan that took his GoPro with him and decided to capture the European summer in a pretty funky way.

This video has made me just want to go an book a holiday tomorrow the only thing stopping me is my lack of funding the old bank account, but I am planning on booking a big trip once I have saved and hopefully I can think of a creative way like this to capture my whole experience on my GoPro, and if the GoPro idea fails lucky for me and all of you reading this I have pretty good photography skills (well you would hope I did after studying it for 2 years) so I'm sure I would be able to share a quality snap or two with you all.

Until the next post my friends.

Life.

Hey All,

I know, once again I have been slack and haven't posted in a little while, surprise surprise..

But today while I am sitting here passing my time by doing nothing much productive at all, I was on twitter and I saw someone tweeting about their Uni work and having a number of assessments due within the next week and it got me thinking.

I was the kind of student at school who would find every excuse in the book to do the least amount of written work in class as I could, as I was a more hands on learner and enjoyed the practical subjects like Woodwork, Art or Cooking. 

I would leave assignments right up until the last second, I would literally be sitting up until 4am the night/morning it is due doing the best I could with the time I had left myself to do it, and the funny thing is I never learnt from my mistakes, 6 years later and I was still doing it.. 

The though of Uni never interested me, going back to sitting in a class room doing written work for 4 more years after I had spent the last 12years doing just that and I never really enjoyed it. Instead I would rather be out there working, yes it's currently in hospitality but I am still enjoying it, because it keeps me busy. I work with some awesome people and I also get to meet a lot of different people and hear about their lives, what makes them happy and sad. It is amazing what you can find out about a person and how much of their lives some of them let you in on while only spending a couple of hours looking after their table and serving them a few drinks and some food.

I often look at the people who come into my work, I think about who they are and what they have gone through to get to the point in their lives that they are at now, have they had a hard life and worked super hard to have what they currently have, or have they grown up having everything given to them.. Are they a kind and considerate person, or are they going to be rude and put a downer on my day, luckily they are usually lovely and it makes my job easier, but the ones who are rude and abrupt, you can tell they haven't worked a day in their life in the hospitality industry. But enough of that..

I think the majority of the worlds population have this view that life is, being born, growing up, going to school, finishing school and having a clear idea of what you want to be and the career you are going to have for the rest of your life.. When I comes to this view I am definitely in the minority of people who believe this view of life is ridicules and old fashioned. I am currently 21 and I still have no idea what I want to be 'When I grown up' because I still don't feel as though I haven't finished growing up yet. In my view I still have so much to do before I class myself as a 'Grown Up'. I am still learning things, but things that are relevant to day to day life, not something out of a book that I might use 'one day' or something that 'could come in handy' if I was to find myself in a certain situation that would happen once in a blue moon. 

I don't like the idea that just because you are no good at spitting stuff out on to a piece of paper that they have spoon feed you in class, doesn't mean you won't make a good Doctor, Scientist, or anything else for that matter. Some of us out here in this world are creative minded people who learn better when it comes down to doing the physical task the job or profession requires, I think thats why I hated school so much, they didn't cater for the creative minded as much as they did with the literal minded people. They just believed everyone was the same, yet they couldn't fathom how you could do so well and pay so much attention in one class but then you were a million miles away in another.. I was good at Woodwork, Photography, Art and Cooking, I also loved maths because there was always a correct answer, where as English on the other hand, I would dread that class, I would start counting down the seconds until it was finished as soon as I walked into the room. There was just no excitement in that class for me, They always encouraged you to write what your views on something were or to 'create' something and then they go ahead and tell you that it is all wrong. How can something someone has created in their mind be wrong. As a creative minded person I always had great concepts and ideas for stories to write but when it came to actually putting it on the paper I would forever struggle to express it in writing, and anything I did write was 'bland' or 'boring'. I always thought English was a little snippit of what hell could possibly be like, actually it was worse then what hell could ever be, Hell to me sounds so much more fun then learning English was for me, I don't think Hell would ever be a boring place, I have a feeling the devil would keep things exciting, in a place like that I would never be bored. ;) 

I have to admit though it wasn't my teachers that made me hate it, it was just the subject itself, My year 12 English teacher was actually one of my favourite teachers because she was good at what she did, she never made me feel stupid and she never gave up on me even when I asked her to.lol But it was just a shame that the subject itself that she was teaching I couldn't stand. 

Im the kind of person who whats to get out and travel the world, see everything it has to offer before I do something boring like settle down with a 'good career' that 'pays the bills' and gets me by. Yawnnn! There is so much out there in this big old world of ours and I think it needs to be experienced and seen by as many people as it can, We need to love and experience this earth because it and ourselves are not going to be around forever. I don't want to get old and look back on my life and wishing I had gone out and done more with it. I believe experiences and memories are so much more important in life then any object will be. 

There is a saying that goes "He who dies with the most toys is still dead" and ever since hearing that saying I have had a clearer view of where I want my life to go, Yes I still have no idea what I want to be but I know that I want to experience everything life has to throw at me and then maybe one day I will find out what it is I am supposed to be. That saying has slowly become my life motto, and I am trying to have a less materialistic view in life, instead focusing on the little moments that in day to day life nowadays go unnoticed, whether it be the random little bird playing in the tree or the way a leaf has fallen on the footpath, pure beauty is all around us and until you start to notice it your daily life you will never truly understand the pure joy and happiness this earth and your life actually brings you each and every day. Take a moment out of your day to appreciate the little things, because they might actually be a pretty big thing in someone else's life, they are also part of your bigger picture, and every little thing adds up to something great. The Queen bee would be helpless without all the worker bees, its the same in life, you are the person you are because of the people and things that surround you in life, without every little piece of the puzzle you wouldn't be who you are today, so be thankful for all you have and the amazing gift that is life and enjoy every moment of it.

Enjoy your Easter break with friends and family, create many a memory that will last a life time and stay safe.

x.