May 12, 2009: Pre-departure:
June 1, 2009I have been much delayed in getting this blog up and running. I have been in Australia for 17 days as of today. I am going to blog the days past till I catch up to what I am living and going through in the present. But to begin, I have to go beyond these 17 days. The trip began for me far before the plane to off from the RDU airport.
Though my next few posts will be “catch-up” posts, the following I quickly wrote when I was first thinking of starting a blog. It was written and set three days before my trip. It is short, but sums up how I was feeling at the time:
I am extremely excited to leave, but now just a few days before my departure, I am also beginning to feel a little nervous. The magnitude of what I am doing has started to kick in. Relative to my own experiences, this trip will be a huge step. I am going to the opposite side of the Earth to stay on my own in Melbourne, AU for two months. I am leaving and I still don’t know where I will be living, and I don’t really even know what I am doing. But I am trying to stick to my general life belief that things will work themselves out. It will help a ton that my Dad is accompanying me for the first week. Surely the two of us can make it to Australia alive.
