Post thoughts

Welp, it's exam week so I thought I needed to examine my life after being home a bit!

When I was in Australia about half way through my 4 and a half months there I wrote down notes on my computer that I would see everyday until I went home the first thing was the number of weeks I had left until I went home I think it was at 8 went I first wrote it down. The second thing I wrote was “Let change happen”, because when I was over there I didn’t think I was changing and I didn’t think anything was really changing, on the inside. I questioned how I was suppose to change, I told my boyfriend that I have really changed.. Even though I don’t think that I did. He told me from the sounds of my voice and how I talked wasn’t different, so I didn’t change. I told him just wait until I get home, you’ll see. Just trying to convince myself that this $20,000 dollar trip was going to change something inside for the rest of my life, for the better. I wrote “Let change happen” because I personally did not think I was changing. Everything seemed pretty normal, except the fact that I was literally the farthest place in the world away from my family, boyfriend, and friends. So yeah I knew that the trip was going to teach me about new cultures and that yes if you move far away from people you loved and grew up with, your going to miss them. Duh. Being home for some five months now I see just how much I was impacted by my experience, not wholesome overwhelmingly a new person, but in the little things. Learned some lessons that I will carry with me the rest of my life. 1. You can live out of 2 suitcases for 5 months and be very happy. Things do not make you happy, people do. Which reassures me that social work IS the major for me because you get to work with people everyday. 2. I LOVE TO TRAVEL, I LOVE NEW EXPIRENCES, I LOVE TRYING NEW THINGS.

Cheers!

Ally