Journal 252 - Australia

New Years Day. The beginning of another New Year. An opportunity to start afresh. Ill be honest, I don't really feel that fresh at all, I've only had about four hours of sleep, which was broken. And with my body clock I cannot sleep past eight am these days.

Still, last night was wonderful. A very small gathering, low key and not filled with any expectations, as is the norm for new years eve. Of course the 'low-key part was out the window once the spa was full and the boat pulled into the driveway with its sub-woofer speakers. Last night I rang in the New Year in my bikini in the spa with bubbles and alcohol. I could have gone to Sydney or another high profile city event, but I would have been alone and the memories would not have been the spa
As with every New Year that comes and goes, and even more so now I am getting older, I'm marveling at how fast that 365 days passes us by. This time last year I had only just made my plan to leave the UK and travel Australia. And now I'm eight months in. Scary stuff.

Each year I try to write down my goals/predictions for where I see myself that following year. They say if you write something down, you are more likely to achieve it. This last year I know I haven't achieved everything that was in that letter but it certainly helped me along.

• Try new things - The first one I wrote down. I have successfully become less picky with foods, I've snowboarded, wake-boarded, fed wild Kangaroos amongst many other things. 
• Go to Australia - Well this goes hand in hand with the first. I'm here right now, living and breathing it. When I first set out I though that a year would be my lot, that I would want to go home afterwards knowing that I had done it. I didn't expect I would want to travel anywhere else in the world. I thought I would go home and stay there for my whole life. 

But something has changed. By taking this first step, I have found that there are even bigger ones to make. That phrase, 'places to go, people to see' comes to mind. By travelling thousands of miles across the world I discovered there was more to life that small town politics. There's a world full of unknown dreams and sights that I never imagined possible. 

I'm not really one for New years resolutions. They always get broken. Its like an unwritten rule. I truly believe that when the time is right to change something, the time is right now, why wait for a 'New Year New Me'? But my list of goals for this year is hugely different to what it was last year. It's bigger. Last year was just the baby steps to what I am becoming. This year is set to be bigger, better and more exciting than any others. And hope all my lists in years to come only prove to out do each other. After all, it is merely my way of becoming the best version of myself that I can be. 

And who wouldn't want to be that person?