Pre-Europe Update YEAH BOIIII

Welcome friends, family and internet strangers to this revitalised travel/culture blog of mine. You may or may not have noticed I've changed the side bar from red (Japan) to green (Europe) and very little else. I read through some of my old posts and noticed some of the pictures aren't working; and then noticed that I didn't care. Let's get on with it.

Brief update for those wondering what I've done in the last couple of years since coming home from Japan.

I was accepted into the Monash Diploma of Education course (one year) to become a teacher.

(Learning!)

Then I was offered a job at Narre Warren South College as a mostly maths teacher for a year.

(Teaching!)

That's about it! I've been living in the most amazing share house with the best people EVAR, I also had a great time at Narre South as well. I'm super sad to be leaving both places but these things happen.

To be precise, my trip will commence on February 15th and to save you all wondering, my general plan is as follows.

USA:      LA for 6 days  >>  Seattle for 6 days  >>  Portland 3 days  >>  New York 5 days 

Europe:   Land in Portugal  >>  make the rest up later for about 9 months >> Teach in the UK.

As you can see my Europe plans are a little vague but I've done that quite intentionally. The advantage of putting aside so much time for travel is that I can god damned take my time. If I'm enjoying myself then I can hang out longer, yeah?

Here are answers to some of the more common questions:

- Maybe two years? Travel and then teaching in the UK.
- Staying with friends in the USA and then hostels etc in Europe.
- Errr I suppose?
- Bus, train, plane? How else do people get around?
- That's amazing...
- My brother's fiance's backpack. It's smallish but it'll be perfect.
- Haven't really looked yet but I don't want to take too much.
- I'll be sure to go there...
- Just a one way ticket, I'll buy the return ticket when I need to.

You can work out the questions.

So get ready for some BLOGGING EXTRAVANGA(S). In Japan I was relatively stationary so I suppose there wasn't a whole lot going on. Therefore I'm hoping with all this moving around I'll have some more creative things to comment on. As much as possible I'm going to avoid these three things.

1. The whole "... Then I went here and did this, then went there and did the same thing. Then I ... " format.
2. I'm hoping not to harp on about people you've never met.
3. I will not upload a gajillion photos on Facebook for the two seconds I spent at a bar or whatever.

You're welcome. Ha.


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