The morning sunrise across the Hunter Valley.
About the only good picture I’ve managed to take on my Blackberry!
This blog was originally designed to promote my exciting year-long trip to Australia and be filled with jaw-dropping adventures and near-death experiences.
Now... it's just full of boring advertising-related articles, randomly tattooed lego men, topless footballers and pictures of my cats. Oh and the occasional angry rant.
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4 days to go!
And these just a few of the things I need to do:
- Take back clothes from Topshop for a refund
- Return ASOS clothes for a refund (I buy too much shit online)
- Change £ into AUS$
- Pack
- Transfer stuff from my laptop to my swanky new netbook
- Update my iPod (and remove The Vengaboys, Steps and Aqua from my playlists
- Tell banks I’m leaving
- Buy a hand luggage bag
- Buy makeup and outfit for plane (want to look presentable when I arrive a customs)
- Leave Southern Water - on Thursday; wahoooo!
- Buy teabags and Hula Hoops
- Buy a book for the plane
- Go to the Doctors
- Dye & cut hair
- Go out Thursday with the bestest ♥
- Spend Wednesday with a nice young man :)
- Have a family get-together on Friday
- Pack again to ensure everything is present and correct
- Ensure passport and visas are present and correct
- Say emotional goodbyes to cats and rabbits
- Print off CVs and references
- Apply for jobs
- Drive to Heathrow
- Leave England & arrive safely in Australia on November 1st
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4 weeks to go!
I leave these cloudy, yet homely shores on the 30th October for sun, sea, sand and blueberry picking.
All I have booked is a week at my Aunty and Uncle’s house in Cessnock, NSW and that is pretty much it!
Once over the jet lag, I’ll be hitting up Sydney - probably stay in a Hostel for a week or so, meet a few fell backpackers and then see what happens.
I think for the first couple of months I’ll be a typical tourist and then after that, I’ll find a proper degree-related job, get a flatshare and see how things pan out Down Under.
For now, I must endure another 3 and half weeks of Southern Water and an increasingly fading tan.
