Good Night and Good Luck
I can still vividly remember my first night in Auckland…going down to the food court below the theatre, feeling a bit sorry for myself because I was kind of lonely, but wondering what these 10 (well, now 7.5 months) would hold for me. I gotta say, I have not been disappointed and I’ve come along way since then!
During the first month I kept having this re-occurring dream that I was back home, and in my dream I was thinking “but- I still have 9 months to go, now I have to fly all the way back to finish my time there”. It’s weird, but I guess I ‘knew’ that my travels would take me home earlier than I thought.
But I’m so, so glad I came here, and I’m also glad I’m going home. I don’t quite know how I’m feeling about leaving- it changes from minute-to-minute (seeing as it is 308am I’m in a bit of a fog) much like my trip itself. There were points I was loving it, and there were points that I couldn’t wait to get home but I’m so glad I took this opportunity and decided to just go to another country. This whole concept seemed so big before I came, I actually thought- fleetingly- what if i chicken out and don’t go??? Now it seems like nothing to fly to the other side of the world on your own… how your perspective changes especially meeting people who are doing even more ‘daring’ things than you are.
But one of the things I hope to take out of this trip is (a lesson I continue to learn) that I can adapt. Nothing like doing that half-way round the world trip to learn this, but even if there are some growing pains, us humans are pretty good at eventually getting back on our feet to keep marching through life.
Like I said before I’m unsure about how I feel- this being the end of the trip, I won’t miss hostels, and sharing a kitchen with a bunch of people, or a room…but I will miss waking up each day with the possibility of seeing something new. You should travel. But my big trip, the trip I had been planning for such a long time, is coming to a close. I don’t feel sad, but I feel it deserves some pause, and to be given some thought.
I could repeat what BF said about NZ being beautiful- but I think you get the idea from all the pictures we posted. Thanks for following us through this journey, it was so nice to see that people care about what we are doing here on the other side of the world. It made me feel less alone.
Now onto new challenges and adventures, including cooking a turkey in vancity, re-habbing my knee, deciding just what I want to do professionally in the future, and just this evening BF and I submitted our first application to adopt a dog http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14590005 I hope by showing this to you guys it doesn’t jinx the application process- we are also looking at applying to adopt this dog as well http://www.petfinder.com/petnote/displaypet.cgi?petid=14761217&mtf=1 so it just depends on who approves us first etc. But, anyways there is a lot to look forward to when we get home, it’s weird that I’m nervous to start the rest of my life.
I’m just so happy I got to travel in New Zealand for as long as I did, I wouldn’t change a thing. Thanks for all the support guys.
Good-bye from New Zealand!
