Second thoughts crossed my mine everyday before I left to come to this amazing country called Australia. It was hard leaving special people in my life behind and not being able to see them for a year. Buuuuut...What I can say is that...
A Gap year in my eyes is a year where you learn the most you ever will in one year. Its like a school you go to where life lessons are taught but you are your own lecturer, teacher and decision maker.
Living half way across the world has taught me so much and I'm sure I won't learn any education on this gap year experience, maybe a little but not near to as much as I learnt in my years at school. What I will learn on my Gap Year are life lessons and I personally think these lessons are the lessons that will get me through my way of living. I probably seem like I am getting very deep and extreme something I don't normally do on my blogs but as I am nearly half way into first year away from home with no parental guidance, with no financial funding from parents and no people to run to when I'm in trouble besides myself, not that I'm ever in trouble...ey mom.
So with just under 180 days left down under and only 28 days until I head to Thailand I thought I would post a blog about some of my lessons learn't in Australia. As I mentioned in the paragraph above I have learnt many life lessons, some that I will carry on for the rest of my life. There are so many that you have to force yourself to learn in order to survive in a foreign country without mommy and daddy.
Time has gone by so fast, extremely fast actually. I am glad that no time has being wasted in wanting to learn my lessons. I was told by a person before I left that I should focus on spending my gap year exploring and learning new things about life and not to save my money which is probably the best advise I have ever received, as stupid as it sound, its true. My goal of my gap year is to save my money for the next trip to wherever, whenever. Gap Years are for exploring, learning new things, meeting new people and making mad memories that you will remember for the rest of your life. I do my best to save my money and sometimes I ask myself where is my money going...like I had cash in bankie but now its gone. Its the odds ad ends that effect you the most, that extra cheese you put on your maccas burger or even the Maccas burger that all adds up to minis cash from your account.
Some of the people I knew before my trip told me that a Gap year is a waste of time and I should get a degree and do something with my life. Correct. I agree but what they did miss is that some people are not for a degree just yet, I personally am not sure just yet what I want to do with my life but at the moment I am living it and living it to its fullest. I'm loving my gap year and enjoying every moment of it. I have met thee coolest people so far and have learnt how to deal with certain people I don't get along with they way I would like but I mean if everyone was the same the world would be the same that has taught me somethings that might help me after I get my degree.
Enough with the responsible stuff now.
I am sniffing a long weekend coming up which has caused me to spend some money not much just a little. I will be heading three hours north of Sydney to a place called Seal Rocks with a family that stay in Manly, Sydney. We are going for a camp trip there to surf, braai, surf, chill and do a little bit of surfing. Gonna be a real cool weekend and am showing pearly whites of excitement every day until the trip. Then just a couple days after that I will be travelling to Thailand to meet up with the fam dam. Gonna be an epic ten days in paradise ey Boetie.
I haven't forgotten about home and do think of you guys every day. I must admit it has being a big change for me to come over to Australia and live by myself and all that jazz but am so glad I have done it! Its being a massive challenge and I go through my high and lows but its part of living the life in OZ or anywhere the matter of fact.
With exactly 190 days left of being in OZ I have a lot of travelling still to be done. I have learnt a lot as I said before. I am hoping to live the last six months better than I have ever before as a young teenage boy. I'm not blogging as much as I could so will be doing my best to blog as much as possible for the people who want to hear about my year and all the stuff I've being up to and can promise you none of it has being causing mischief.
I have a busy month coming up as I have explained. Heading on a surf trip up the east coast, heading to Thailand and hopefully head back up to the beautiful place called Byron Bay.
As it was my birthday 'about a week ago' I have come to realize that it is my last year of being a teenager and should start looking at living life as a mature man but first I have a lot to do as a South African teenager living in Australia....
The titile of my blog is actually something that I have heard whenever leaving the house back home, in South Africa. It was the last thing my dad said to me before he started to lift his phone and snap that 5 minute picture of me walking through the gates at the airport. My dad has said those words to me whenever I head out the house to go wherever. I promise dad I have being keeping it neat and tidy!
Good Luck with exams everyone back home!
With Love From OZ!
