6 months in AUSTRALIA!!!!!!

I have been living in Australia for 6 months TODAY!!!!!! Weird?!?!?! I have seen quite a bit of Australia but I still have loads to see before I leave this country!!! I still haven’t cuddled a Koala, seen Melbourne, Sydney or Darwin...

I am loving my time traveling and learning about a new country, its culture and loads about myself. I started this journey just because I wasn’t ready to grow up and get a real job or start graduate school...and I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with my life.

 Being in your 20’s is difficult, especially when you don’t quite fit the mold of “normalcy”....I had no desire to get married and settle somewhere and start a family. I had zero desire to settle whatsoever. I wanted a life that is full of unexpected twists and turns and unknown people and places...I wanted the kind of fairy tale that most people only dream about. The kind that doesn’t begin with Once upon a time or end with they lived happily ever after.....I wanted to create my own adventure. So here I am.

Australia has been such an eye opening part of my life. Most people assume that I am just vacationing by the beach everyday and well I WISH I WAS. I have worked the majority of my time here so far and plan to work the next six months straight. The money I make in Australia will go to future travel plans and towards paying off my stupid loans. I have plans to go to South East Asia on my way home and to Guatemala  sometime next year....my hearts desire is to keep traveling!!!!!!

I have so many great memories, met amazing and inspiring people and really fallen in love with my life again. I have a hunger for traveling that is only satisfied by more adventure. I thought I must be so strange to have this huge desire for such a silly life until I met so many people exactly like me. I have met people who have lived life in the most astonishing way....people that inspire me to dream bigger and truly believe in doing something amazing with my life. The lessons learned while traveling are not something I can get out of a book....the experiences have taught me just how strong, passionate, and incredible I can be....it has caused me to really look deep in myself and challenge myself to new and (sometimes) terrifying things. 

I have realized that life is quite simple. Love others and the rest will fall in place. Maybe thats part of growing up. Simplicity has been my favorite part of Australia....I read books (lots of them), I have conversations with strangers, I indulge myself in other's cultures, I talk about things that often make me uncomfortable, I write, I run, I live life with passion. Everyday is not perfect...believe me I have been in some uncomfortable situations that have really opened my eyes but I am feel so blessed to be a little traveler!!!!!! I am excited to see where the next 6 months take me!!!