The Final Countdown

Here I am, four days from departing for Sydney, Australia.  I have yet to pack or do anything more than make my resumes/cover letters and prepare my bank accounts and cell phone for over seas.  I should probably start getting everything together, but how do I pack for a year?  I'm going to be living out of a backpack (one of those large framepacks made for hiking).  For someone who owns enough clothes to not do laundry for a month and not wear one dirty thing, it's a struggle.  But, I'm ready to jump in head first and see where this takes me.

I get asked all the time "Why are you doing this?"  It's not an easy answer, but I feel that I can say with certainty I hope to find myself.  Hope to realize something about myself and get out of the bubble that is my normal life.  I tend to be shy and reserved on first meeting (as many of you know), but can be a crazy, neurotic, talk-your-head off type a person too (as many of you have told me ha!).  I want to meet new people and do new things.  Perhaps I'm running away from things, from the fact that I have no idea what I want to do with my life or that the last year of my life I went through some really tough times.  But, I like to see it more as a running to something, not away from.  

Anyways, this is just an introduction to get me started on a blog I hope to update weekly with pictures and video in order to well document this amazing adventure!  I will post my phone number and my address as soon as I get them!

Michaela