In 2017 I moved to the other side of the world and started a new life and said to myself that I would start a blog to record my adventures, to tell anyone who would read it about how my life changed and how I grew. But I never got around to it. Life just got so busy and it was always on my to do list.
I actually started it before I even left England, writing what I believed I would feel on the plane, but my departure from England was not at all what I had planned. The chaos of the first few weeks of sofa surfing, applying for jobs and house hunting commandeered most of my time, so sitting quietly at my laptop and recording events took a back seat. Then I found somewhere to live and got a job and then my time was taken with trying to build a life. The only progress I made was to write a list of the headings or content subject of each entry.
Multiple times I started an entry, and sometimes even completed them, but as days and weeks went by, the list of entries that I wanted to complete got longer and longer, and the number of entries I actually completed stayed the same. Whilst it was always a thought in the back of my mind, an intention to one day complete, the makings of So Long Farewell Auf Wiedersehen G’day Mate got pushed further and further back. And why not: I was too busy enjoying my new life to have time to write about it.
It has taken far longer than it should have, but I am finally here, with a blog site ready to be filled with pages of my words. My brain explodes with thoughts and feelings about all the things that have happened since I moved across the world, circulating and spiraling around and around.
I guess I better start to let them out…!