Hello world indeed!!
Well sitting in the luxury and comfort of home I have a little bit of spare time on my hands so thought I may as well get started on this blogging thing! Many thanks to my sister Kama (cantabrian.net) for setting this up for me and showing me how to get started.
Not the most experienced blogger out there but figure I just tell the world, or rather anyone that has nothing better to do, about whatever shit is on my mind!
So I arrived back in NZ on Monday the 20th of July after 8 years in Melbourne. I have been back just coming up to a month now. My visualisations of what I would be doing whilst enjoying the comforts of home, have pretty much all come to fruition, right down to reading the morning paper cover to cover every morning, sitting at the sunny end of the dining room table, eating porridge, drinking coffee and juice, with the dog staring at me for my plate.
Family time is what its all about and this is what I have. Family time. Something I have not really had a lot of..well not on a continual basis. Maybe the odd visit at Xmas but nothing like a couple of months just doing family stuff. I left home at 17 and since then have done it all my way. All good but jeez I miss family time so that’s what I’ve got now.
Its the simple things really, home cooked meals, helping out with the vacuuming, making a cup of tea or coffee for your folks, talking shit with your brothers and sisters, taking the dog for a walk, having dinner kept aside for me…all the little things that you forget about when you don’t live with your folks..the comforts of home. If you ever feel the need for some grounding or just to touch base and reconnect with whats really important in life then go home for a bit..I totally recommend it.
I have a little over a month left at home before I begin the next ‘phase’ which begins in Oita, Japan on October 7. I’m feeling nervous and excited at the same time which is an interesting paradox of emotions creating a kind of neutral balance hard to explain. My reasons are pretty much 90% financial in that I have made an executive decision to finally do something about making a decent dent in my student loan!
My plans are to chill out in the time I have before I start work in Japan, preparing for12 months of working and saving teaching English in an environment which will be far removed from what I have grown accustomed to. The comforts of home will be no longer as I will be a westerner in a very Eastern world. But, this is what brings the excitement. Where ever there is change there is adventure and where ever there is adventure there is excitement, so bring it on!
There are people I will leave behind and there is 1 who will be on my mind a lot…and she knows who she is. But I am a firm believer in that if destiny and fate can form part of the foundations of a relationship under construction, then a very solid union can be formed…
There is an old cliche – ‘If you love something set it free…’ well thats what I’m doing. Its a scary thing to leave your dreams in the hands of whoever is at the helm of fate or destiny but I guess at some point in all of our lives we all have to do it..
Sooo for the next 5 or 6 weeks I plan on more family time, well untill they go to Italy Sept 7. Then these blogs will change tack while I pen my experiences and thoughts as I begin my 12 months in Japan…
Untill I gather up some more random thoughts…later!!!
