Goodbye Australia

Well it’s Sunday and more importantly it’s my last day living in Australia. I’ve had a rollercoaster of a ride the last few months (lots of blogs written but never posted for some reason) but now I’m heading back after one last set back.

I’m heading off on a flight at 9.45 tonight and will arrive in Newcastle at around 12 PM on Monday.

I have to say I’m nowhere near as upset as I thought I might be about leaving, in fact I’m almost relishing the fact that I’m going home. Australia hasn’t been that kind to me but I am taking lots of positives from the experiences. It’s also helped me decide what I want to do in my future. All I need to do now is put my thoughts onto paper and get cracking with it.

I’ve also had some clarity about my life in general and wrote a list of things I want to achieve over the next year or so. I’m not fixing any defined time line to these actions as some of them are evolving items rather than ‘hit a target and it’s complete’ but if I could have all of them under way by the end of 2012 I’d be happy.

The list so far (again, this list will increase as time goes on, I’m sure) is –

Return to Europe

Get a job I enjoy

Get fit / lose the belly / tone up

Find a boyfriend

Travel more

BE arsed to do things!

Enjoy my friends more

Focus more on experiences and less on ‘things’

Learn from my experiences so far

Be honest with myself more often

Set down some roots

Get a dog

Learn to ride a motorbike

Improve my French

Walk more

Take lots more pictures

Go to more gigs

See more shows

Go to the Opera

Learn to use my DSLR properly

Buy some property

Now I know this seems a bit like a bucket list, and in some ways it is, but whereas a bucket list is purely about experiences, this is about some personal goals too.

So, watch this space, I might actually achieve some of these goals.