In just 19 days - on September 22 - I leave for what I call my Odyssey (for the obvious reference). I'm off to Melbourne first, where I will meet up with the friends I made while on exchange back in 2003. I also intend to travel a bit and hopefully find some work to supplement my adventures. Four months later, I fly to Thailand for two months. Again, travel and work. Then it'll be India for a month, and Europe (via Germany) for maybe two months. I don't have any flights beyond that point, but I'm hoping to make it to my dad's place in Canada before coming back here to Santa Barbara. In the end, I'll find my way back to Australia once and for all (unless, of course, I find somewhere else that feels more like home than there).
I'm getting quite excited to be back in Oz so soon, but also nervous. In many ways, I feel like I've never really left at all. I felt more at home in Geelong for those nine months back in 2003 than I have anywhere else, and so I'm curious to see what it'll be like to be back again after three years away. I fell in love with everything around me in those nine months, and I can't wait to see how I react this time.
