long time no speak... so here's a quick catch up...
1. I got my internet working :) I'm now speaking to you from the comfort of my own apartment :) It wasn't simple and I ended up having to take a day off to deal with the internet company but I got there in the end thankfully. So get downloading skype and then email me with your skype ID
2. Started the Salsa dancing classes and I'm absolutely loving it. Took a while to get my head around the turns but not only can I do turns now I can do cross body turns... I'm very pleased with myself! :oD I even got asked out on a date with one of the guys on the course... I'm not interested but it was to be asked all the same :)
3. Had my first Aussie hair do - disaster!!! the hairdresser ended up leaving the gunk on my hair for almost an hour whereas it should only have been on for about 20-25! So I now have some rather white bits in my hair :(
4. I'm busy planning trips... I'm heading to Melbourne to see Emma on the 9th, I'm planning a long camping weekend at Uluru at the end of May (very much looking forward to this, although not the below zero nights in only a sleeping bag!) and I've also got my eye on doing the Indian Pacific rail journey from Syndey to Perth for my birthday in August (but I think I've told you that before).
5. erm what else...oh yeah, might have a job opportunity in Christchurch, New Zealand for later on this year. Very excited about this as it would be a great opportunity, both experience and career wise but will see if it materialises into anything.
other than that it's all just 9-5 work and recovery at weekends! The usual... it's funny how you always end up back into your same old routine, no matter where in the world you are.
Maybe that's what they mean by the grass isn't always greener (ah that old gem!)... it's not where you are, it's what you make of it that matters. I guess I knew that before I came but I think I'm actually learning the lesson now. Sometimes being told things isn't enough and you have to go out there and discover it yourself. Sometimes arriving isn't enough, you have to do the journey.
Would I have done salsa and photography if I'd stayed in Cardiff? Almost certainly not. I would be sat there in my apartment, probably being lonely, miserable, lamenting my life and eating drinking myself into oblivion. And who would I have to blame? Only myself.
So if nothing else I want this experience to give me the get up and go to ... well, get up and go! Rather than saying "I wish I could do..." or "I want to...", don't bother, just get yourself on the internet or pick up the yellow pages and get yourself doing it. It really is that simple. Stop with the excuses... the "but I've no one to do it with", the "but I'm worried I'll make a fool of myself", the "but everyone else will be so much better than me"... it's all rubbish and they're all pathetic excuses.
I promise... I GUARANTEE... that some of the best things you will ever do in your life are the things that you did on your own and that you risked the most. Believe me, there is so much value, so much power, in knowing you are able to do anything... ANYTHING... so long as you put your mind to it. Take it from the most unadventurous and scared person in the world... someone who has never been on a roller coaster because she's too scared... but someone who climbed a few mountains in Peru, someone who went to the other side of the world on her own and lived to tell the tale.
Stop talking about it and do it... and here endeth today's lesson
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