The sun is out and so is our boat! It is getting hotter, far hotter than I remember but I may have been brain washed by UK weather, so we decided it was a good idea to get our feet a little wet. Oh, and Jake wouldn't be left behind either! Road trip! All the way to Port Macquarie for more sunshine and water. Camping for the first time in ages was a blast, I even saw a few kids I knew from school about four years ago, they're so tall! Thought for the week... It is holiday time but I am starting to get my feet back in teaching with a few casual days before the end of term and a few more planned in the new year. I am a good teacher and a good person. Some people are just beyond help and some people just won't help you out of sheer greed and their own insecurities. I can do this!
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September has been an exceptionally social month for my family and I. There have been birthdays, concerts (CHER!!!), lunches and a concerted effort to walk the dogs more and improve general health and mindset.
It has also been a month of recovery for me, allowing me to lick my wounds a little and regain my centre through the presence of my family and friends. I love you all! xx I met the lovely Chris on my Norway/Russia trip last year- camping, deer and lots of driving. He flew in to Sydney for a short visit this week and I just had to go and catch up.
Unfortunately for me, the Central Coast public transport decided to have a cow. After 4 hours travel on a rail replacement bus, I finally made it to Sydney Harbour and realised... there was no way I was getting home. SO, in the spirit of adventure, I booked myself into a hostel room overnight, the Sydney YHA and Chris and I hit the town. We did dinner and foudn a cheap pub crawl with fluro paint and eighteen year olds. Fun to watch, great time to spend with my travel buddy. Thanks for the fun big guy, see you in Canada eventually! Despite email correspondence and multiple assurances, I have a gut feeling that my school sponsorship application is simply not going to happen. Unfortunately, the points system that should have been low enough to allow me immediate entry back into the UK with a job has been high-jacked by the governments preferences and apparent need for nurses and doctors. I have resolved to give it a maximum of six months of continued application then I am moving on to the next thing.... whatever that is. I was having a serious think the other day and I decided that, even though my European adventure may currently be on hold, there is no reason for me to stop exploring, particularly considering I have been reluctant in the past to discover my own area. Talking about it in the UK, I realised that, although I have travelled a lot, I still haven't dug deeply into Australia or even the Central Coast and Sydney. There is no point wasting away, pining for London when I can't do anything more than I am already doing and so I am determined to keep exploring, discovering new things and meeting new people. With that in mind, I have begun! First, there was Country in The Vines, a country music festival with some descent names, if I do say so myself- Adam Harvey, The Wolfe Bros, John Williams, who got the wobble board out for a sing-along and Lee Kernaghan, who sadly, did a shoe-y (cringe!). There was family, ice cream, a few drinks and sunshine that has been sorely missed. Next, I agreed to visit ViViD in Sydney- apparently it's a big thing that has been going on for some years! My excuse for ignorance is that I have been out of the country and no one told me. Well, Mum and Dad told me but I wasn't paying attention. Lucky me, on the way to meet the beautiful Tara, I ran into a friend on the train, was introduced to his friends and managed to keep myself occupied the entire way there. After seeing the lights, and the raging crowds, Tara and I hit up a whiskey bar tucked into a back alley- very London of her! Add to all of that, I got to go and see, for the first time, this spunk perform live. I am looking at investing in some 'We <3 Corey' shirts to wear next time. I'd be a good groupie, I think. I can't sing well but I can sing along and cheer plenty :) So, with a positive start and some good friends around, hopefully this will be the beginning of more adventures to come!
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