Change for the Best

It's all getting a little bit more exciting. Tonight is my last night at Mount Hotham. Tomorrow I begin new adventures. As fun as this has been I will be glad to finally have something exciting to write about. Especially about my travels, after all that's the main thing I wanted to write about. But for someone who is a travel blogger I've not done much travelling. 

I know this part has all been the means to fund the travelling, and it has been a great experience in itself. I have met wonderful people, some of whom I am certain will be lifelong friends, even at a distance. Plenty of excuses to visit areas of the country I may not have done before. Hotham has been a wonderful place to start. I'm not really sure what plans I would have made if I hadn't come here. And temperature wise I'm definitely working my way up the thermometer. My previous thoughts of 'Travel Envy' have since passed. Now I'm about to begin my own journey I am happy for those who are off to different corners of the world. I'm excited for whats in store for me. I'm looking forward to hearing their tales, whetting my own travel appetite. 

I am of course, currently procrastinating from the packing I really should be doing. Its just a bit difficult to imagine wearing summer dresses and flip-flops when all I can see outside is rain and small patches of snow, which get smaller with every word I type.  But the thought of sand between my toes and the taste of creamy gelatos does spur me on. I think the lack of Vitamin D has taken effect. Luckily the dreaded 'Mountain Arse' has not. Despite the amount of chocolate, cakes and other delicious food types I have eaten to make up for lack of sunshine, I have done well not to get ridiculously large.

Hotham has been an up and down experience. I guess you'd kind of figure considering I'm on an isolated mountain for four months straight. I've finally learnt how to snowboard. I maybe haven't gotten out on the slopes as much as I would have liked, though I have improved so much since I first started. I have had some great evenings with fabulous people. I have lived somewhere with the most incredible backdrops and sunsets. I have even begun to believe that any temperature between 7 and 12 degrees is 'hot'. I have been doing something in Australia I didn't even think existed. The Victorian Alps have been pretty good to me. Proving that this country really does have everything. 

I still have many different things to encounter here. I've kickstarted the adventure beautifully. I now have what I need to continue and find everything else that Australia has to offer. It's time to move on and I am so ready for it now. In the last four months I have changed in such an amazing way. I was so wary of everything here. I wasn't even sure if what I was doing was right. I was homesick. I was scared. I was a lot of things. 

Now I understand that life is there to be lived. Life is there to be a positive experience. Life is all about what you make of it. I know these are all such cliches, but they are also so so true. I think that maybe whatever comes tomorrow and on wards will change me even more. And I cannot wait. If I feel this much better now, Who knows just how great those changes will be in another six months.

I don't know what is going to happen. But I know that it will be good.