Off again

A lot has happened since my last post and a bit of travelling as well.

In December 2011 I went to Bali for 2 weeks and got to see quite a flash side of the place staying in boutique apartments. I'll admit it was amazing, private pools, gourmet food, definitely nothing to complain about.

In late December I went on a quick jaunt up to Cairns with my brother and his girlfriend. She had never seen the reef and I was happy to get away, I like the tropical rain feel of Cairns which is good as I'll be visiting a lot this year.

On Monday, Mum and I are leaving on a spontaneous holidays to Thailand, well only spontaneous for me really but I plan to use it as the perfect change to re-launch my blog. Hopefully I will be doing a lot more travelling from now on... that house and lang package will have to wait :)

Travel Planning

It's a drizzly mother's day here in Townsville but it's a been a bit brighter since we booked our tickets to the Essendon vs Hawthorn AFL game in June. Daniel is stoked. I'm excited to see Melbourne for the first time (and of course for visiting my brother).

I have lots of plans but would definitely be happy just to see the sights, and the alleyways I've hear so much about.

So far we've booked 3 nights in a studio apartment in the city and that's all we have got. We had planned to see a bit of the great ocean road but decided we didn't want to be rushed and are leaving those plans for another time when we can spend a week on it.

Easter Weekend

I just got back from a weekend away at Airlie Beach with Daniel's family. It was a lot of fun. We had a look at the markets, took a walk along the boardwalk and went on a trip to Whitehaven beach and went snorkeling. Of course we had a lot of chocolate eggs and lots of great food as well.

Pics coming soon...

2011 Update

It's been a long time, over a year in fact since I have posted on this site. I am plannin a running series of short posts of my travel since my last post in the near future. This year however, looks like it will be an exciting one for travel.

Over the Easter long weekend I am driving down to Airlie Beach with Daniel's Mum, sister and her boyfriend Woolie for 3 days.

In June, Daniel and I are flying to Melbourne to visit family and hopefully see a few bits of the Great Ocean Road if we can. We are planning to do a longer trip later in the year.

Later on in the year we are planning a trip overseas. Where we are going, we are still a bit unsure but I am already getting overexcited at the prospect of plannin a trip.

Watch this space for my travel stories...

My aunt Caroline is currently visiting from the Taunton, in the UK. She's is a very good photographer. She has a travel photo blog which I follow and you can see if you go to my profile. She is very good. On Thursday she is heading over to Western Australia to o snorkling on reef over there (not sure what it is acually called).

Rollin, rollin, rollin

So as time has been rolling by, I've been super, super busy. Uni finished forever about four weeks ago and since then it's been non-stop work and organisation.
I have probably done about half the things I need to do before I go to Japan. But then there is also our relocation to Brisbane to plan for which is probably happening late feb/early march.

My Japan trip has now changed due to a epipheny I had over coffee with a friend one day where he posed the question "How are you meant to earn enough money in time?". Which of course got me thinking, then calculating, then reorganising my trip to cut out all my exploring in the first week (Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka. Now I am heading straight to Beppu as cheaply as possible which of course means a few days of travelling in almost every different form (couldn't take a hovercraft on the way, dammit).

Here's how it will go:
Fly Townsville to Cairns early Monday morning.
Fly Cairns to Tokyo Monday lunch, arrive monday night.
Spend Monday night in Tokyo in the most comfy bed I shall have for the next seven weeks.
Bus accross Tokyo to Haneda Airport mid Tuesday morning.
Fly Tokyo to Osaka Tuesday lunch time.
Bus and train to Osaka port, Tuesday arvo.
Ferry overnight from Osaka to Beppu, arrive 7am Wednesday morning.
Bus ride up a mountain to AP house to see Danichan.

Then repeat in reverse to come straigh back to Townsville 5 mins later... kidding.

So until then, life is pretty busy, with work, birthdays, graduation, christmas and family stuff. As well as applying for jobs.

We shall see how it goes...

Typical

Okay, so it's lecture recess, I have a reflection assignment on sexuality to complete before Friday, a conference paper to write and a summary conference poster to complete, both on the topic of the emerging role of Occupational Therapy and refugee resettlement. A stimulating topic I'm sure.

And as usual, instead of actually completing these assignments, bar the cover pages, I'm blogging again. I had decided to keep this blog strictly as a travel journal but I broke that one when I failed to blog about my 3 week trip to Japan.
Although I do think I'll still blog about it but probably at a more convenient time.

This time next month I will be finished my four year bachelor of OT and stumbling around working and gathering money for my next trip to Japan in late December.

This last semester has been so different to what I thought it would be like. I had a wonderful visitor for 5 weeks which consumed me and it felt like I was living in another world but still having to complete uni assignments. I realised I know more about Mental Health and OT than I thought and I watched porn with 20 other people as part of my uni work...

So in the spirit of my new-found determination to actually complete my work to a standard higher than a D, I shall now go and reflect on my opinion on sexuality and disability.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Or not. I'm stuck inside on this lovely, lazy Sunday afternoon trying to make myself sound credible and competent through my professional portfolio assignment. Unfortunately my supervisor decided to word most of my evaluation comments negatively so I cannot put many in without changing them and they uni will pick the changes up when they mark it. Damn. So I'm left clutching at straws, hoping new ideas will jump out at me.
Friday night was a friends 21st birthday party with an under, over and beside the sea theme. I went as a beach bum/tacky hula girl. But at least I was comfy.
My brother comes back from freezing Melbourne tonight for a week. We haven't seen him since Christmas and this time he is girlfriend-less (she's seeing her own family).
This is week is the last week before the ERC Proserpine camp so it's all hands on deck to ensure this thing runs smoothly.
Next weekend is full of "family activities" in honour of my grandfathers birthday and my brothers return.
When am I meant to get this work done I ask you?

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. ~John Archibald Wheeler