Heading Down Under
Well, well, here I am again making another blog post, but thankfully not as a hypocrite, but as a person who has taken her own advice; I'm going to Australia for 5 months.
This is going to be a fun trip - it's going to be awesome to the "third degree", as my sister and I would say. I'm going to a beautiful place in Australia to fly and to experience all new things: new people, a new environment, a new life.
Maybe some people are jealous of me. They think that I am swimming in money and can afford to go wherever I want whenever I please. Other people think that I spend everything I make and think it must be nice to have no obligations or responsibilities and to make money, travel, make money again, etc. This second group of people have it mostly right, but hey, why be jealous of somebody else's life when you've created your own?
With this new trip I found a great deal on plane tickets, and guess what? I got a work visa too - I will have to get a job out there to pay bills and to pay for my ticket. So no, all of you who think that I will be lounging around doing dick all when it's not flyable are wrong - I have to "pay my dues" on this trip...
But you know what? If I end up working at some shitty restaurant or shitty motel or some other shitty place, I'm going to make it fun, dammit! I know that whatever job I get will only be temporary and that even the experience of working someplace foreign is worth something. And who knows? Maybe I'll get a fantastic job out there at a great place, working with great people, - actually, why wouldn't I?
So yeah, North Americans are funny when it comes to money - it's like this big secret about how much your neighbour makes and it can be offensive when somebody implies interest in your own financial situation. It's pretty silly when you think about it, but I guess even though I can definitely be the same way, I felt the need to shed some light on my finances to everyone reading this, just to create a bit less ignorance and jealousy when it comes to me and my reputation for incessant travel. Not that I normally care or have the need to justify what I do to others, but in this case, I'll make an exception.
Anyway, I'm happy and excited about the decision I've made, and I feel good about getting back on the horse and going after the paradream again. Australia will be fantastic!
Meditation: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
This is going to be a fun trip - it's going to be awesome to the "third degree", as my sister and I would say. I'm going to a beautiful place in Australia to fly and to experience all new things: new people, a new environment, a new life.
Maybe some people are jealous of me. They think that I am swimming in money and can afford to go wherever I want whenever I please. Other people think that I spend everything I make and think it must be nice to have no obligations or responsibilities and to make money, travel, make money again, etc. This second group of people have it mostly right, but hey, why be jealous of somebody else's life when you've created your own?
With this new trip I found a great deal on plane tickets, and guess what? I got a work visa too - I will have to get a job out there to pay bills and to pay for my ticket. So no, all of you who think that I will be lounging around doing dick all when it's not flyable are wrong - I have to "pay my dues" on this trip...
But you know what? If I end up working at some shitty restaurant or shitty motel or some other shitty place, I'm going to make it fun, dammit! I know that whatever job I get will only be temporary and that even the experience of working someplace foreign is worth something. And who knows? Maybe I'll get a fantastic job out there at a great place, working with great people, - actually, why wouldn't I?
So yeah, North Americans are funny when it comes to money - it's like this big secret about how much your neighbour makes and it can be offensive when somebody implies interest in your own financial situation. It's pretty silly when you think about it, but I guess even though I can definitely be the same way, I felt the need to shed some light on my finances to everyone reading this, just to create a bit less ignorance and jealousy when it comes to me and my reputation for incessant travel. Not that I normally care or have the need to justify what I do to others, but in this case, I'll make an exception.
Anyway, I'm happy and excited about the decision I've made, and I feel good about getting back on the horse and going after the paradream again. Australia will be fantastic!
Meditation: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
posted by Veronica at 7:22 PM
2 Comments:
Big changes! Amazing how flying changes your life, hey? Especially when you think of where you'd be and what you'd be doing if you'd never learnt to fly. I hope you find fun (well paying!) work and great flying while you're over here.
The season has started well in Victoria - last week there were around 10 flights over 100km that I know about - I think the biggest was a new site record of 220km from Bright! I flew one of 'em (first +100km xc flight) so it's not all just the gun pilots doing the big flights either. Get over here quick while the flying's good is my advise!!
Veronica. Dont forget to come and see us in Manilla. YOUR PRIZE IS STILL HERE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU. Lee and Dave
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