The Trip Happened

Hello!

So as I predicted in my last post, I was way to busy having fun on my trip to be blogging every day. The trip was as amazing as I though it was going to be, so many life long memories and friends made, places and things ticked off the bucket list and so many photos taken that I couldn't keep count. I'm still in the process of editing all my photos (yes I know its been 6 months already) but it did take me over a year to edit all the photos I took in Europe so I'm still doing ok!

I think I will wait to write a post on each place until I have finished the photo editing process, that way I can not only tell you what happened but I can actually show you as well :) 

I hope all is well and that the world is treating you nicely in some way or another!

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.

Post Ireland and UK depression.

Hello My Lovelies,

I do apologise for that lack of posting on my behalf over the last three months, well no quite a lack of posts, 0 post to be exact.. (sorry) The only person I can blame for that would be myself. I am a shocker for starting things and never finishing them, and I really need to work harder at learning to finish challenges that I start.

Over the last few days I have been thinking about my trip to the UK and Ireland which I took almost a year ago with 2 good friends. We spent 3 weeks traveling through England, Scotland and Ireland on a Contiki Tour with what can only be described as the greatest group of people you could ever possibly meet, I would consider almost all of them Family now. On that trip I made a bunch of friends that I will have for life, from all over the world and I'm soooo so thankful that I got to meet them and spend the time I did with them.

And due to it being St Patrick's Day yesterday, I had a massive feeling of post Ireland depression, wishing I was back over there in one of the greatest countries in the world with some of the greatest people on this earth, not only my contiki family but also just the general Irish population and people. The Irish are some of the greatest people I have ever met, they are probably the closest people to Australians you can get in terms of their sense of humour and their drinking culture. I just love everything about the Irish, they always seem so happy, carefree, welcoming, hospitable and not to mention their fantastic accents, I could listen to them speak all day. I have always had a love for the Irish, I also love the fact that my Dad's side of the family originated from Ireland many many years ago. 

I don't just have love for Ireland, but also for London and the rest of the UK as well. I just think London is one of the greatest cities on this earth, you can just go for a walk for a couple of hours and see so much amazing and incredible things. I felt safe walking around the city at night, a city that I had only been in not even 2 days. I would get on a plane right now and be back there in an instant if I could. I would seriously drop my life here in Australia this second if someone offered me a ticket and a job in London or anywhere in Ireland.

I am planing on saving up my money and going back over there before the end of this year to work. The London Pubs program seems like the best option for someone like myself, having worked in pubs and restaurants since I was 16, hospitality is what I know, and the pubs and drinking culture in London and the UK would be awesome fun to experience from both sides of the bar, not only drinking in them but also serving behind them. It would be an amazing learning experience and so much fun!

I just wish I could get paid to travel the world, experiencing different cultures and opening my mind to different traditions from every corner this amazing earth has to offer. That would be my dream.

I will leave you with some random pictures from my trip away and hopefully I will be able to share some new ones with you in a few months time when I am back over there once again, living it up in such an amazing country.

x.