My time out there consisted mainly of working in a coffee shop, staying inside to avoid the overbearing heat and steering clear of the multitude of spiders I happened to come across - not surprising really.
My life was not all spider avoiding and coffee making though. My life was also very much bridge climbing and One Direction concert going, oh and getting into university-ing.
I thought I'd write this post (a month and a half after I arrived back in Blighty - sorry!) to skim over some of the exciting things. And maybe a few of the mundane too.
The 2014 half of my trip was mostly me settling in, me learning to make coffee and me in awe of the Aussie accent and too hot to handle weather. A few trips to the coast happened, allowing me to see outside the black hole of Australia -as the security man at the airport called it- aka Canberra.
We took a week's trip to the coast for Christmas too. It was a little odd standing on a beach on Christmas day, but the pouring rain we had for majority of the time made me feel right at home.
Despite missing home a lot and the rain that dashed any dreams of a sunny Christmas, it was a lovely first Christmas away from home and Christmas Eve marked the end of my first three months down under.
Amidst everything else, I decided that I wanted to apply for university and took on the mammoth task of deciding what course and where with only the information on the websites. Nonetheless, I wrote a personal statement with such ease I surprised myself, and by the end of January I had two unconditional offers. It was the perfect boost I needed to know what I was going home to.
Oh, and I won One Direction tickets in January. wHAT. I already had a trip to Sydney planned with my auntie and her friend, but a week after that I went back with a girl I'd become good friends with at work. To add the the brilliantness of the situation, the stadium had mucked up our tickets resulting in upgraded floor seats metres from the stage. It was pretty great.
At this point it was early February and I had about a month and a half until I flew home. There was one thing I wanted to do before then, and I was adamant to do it whether I went alone or not. So on the 11th March, 9 days before my flight home, I got the coach to Sydney on my own. This was miles out of my comfort zone considering I hadn't even been to London on my own and I know London. So I navigated my way across the city to Circular Quay and then did something else I never thought I'd do. I climbed Sydney Harbour Bridge. Doing all that on my own, and getting back to Canberra alive, was probably one of my proudest moments. I got lost, I walked up and down the same road three times, I had to ask a policeman for directions and got off at the wrong train station without realising until I was ten minutes down the road, but looking back that was what made it a fun day exploring.
2015 has been brilliant so far and starting it in Australia was pretty incredible. I'm super excited to see what the rest of the year brings. I'll leave you with this photo of me and Sydney Opera House.
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