I Still Call Australia Home

I've been to cities that never close down, from New York to Rome and old London town,
but no matter how far or how wide I roam, I still call Australia home. 

I'm always travelling, I love being free, and so I keep leaving the sun and the sea,
but my heart lies waiting over the foam, I still call Australia home.

All the sons and daughters spinning 'round the world, away from their family and friends,
but as the world gets older and colder, it's good to know where your journey ends.
Someday we'll all be together once more, when all of the ships come back to the shore,
I'll realise something I've always known, I still call Australia home.

but no matter how far or wide I roam, I still call Australia I still call Australia, I still call Australia home.
but no matter how far or wide I roam, I still call Australia I still call Australia, I still call Australia home.

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("I Still Call Australia Home", song lyrics by Peter Allen)

So here i am in Halifax packing my bags for a new life in England
i am packing... why does it seem like i'm always packing?
Just a week ago i never would have ever thought about leaving Halifax so soon
This is sudden, i know. This is unexpected, i know.
  

Things change. Circumstances change. People change.

I am looking forward to what this year will bring 

American dollars, Pesos, Belize dollars, Queztal

New York City bound in 2 days
6 days on my own in the Big Apple. Will i find new friends? i hope so...

Cancun in 7 days
meeting my girls Kristen, Nicole, Liisa, Anna there
5 girls backpacking in Central America will be hype!!

A much deserved break from this really stressful term
if i were to stay in Halifax for the three week break i would seriously go insane
majority of my classmates are flying off as well to Japan, Austria, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico City
so mom, i'm not the only one who feels the need to destress
travling keeps my head on my shoulders
only 2 more years until i'm done archi school. i can't wait for it to be over

to travel is to escape

to travel is to escape

running away hoping to find something. is it joy? it is adventure?

seeing God's creation in the form of animals, plants, landscapes, foods. Understanding people from different cultures and learning to speak their language... everything i've seen and heard, I understand God a little more.

sometimes i wonder if i will ever find it
i realized as i am getting older that sometimes in searching for the right person, there isn't really "the one"
caring and love overseas everything

it's the mutal understanding of learning to share and learning to love
to share your strengths and especially learning to love the person for their weakness

recently i have been feeling quite down

for the past while i've been seeing someone who i actually really enjoyed and had hoped to have a relationship with. things were going really well... or so i thought from my perspective. then one day suddenly out of the blue i was cut cold of everything that use to be familiar with him: phone calls, text messages, emails. i let it off a few days just to see if he would give me a call up. after a full week of making excuses for him (which i knew i shouldn't have done but did anyways because i wanted to gave him the benifit of the doubt) before i decided to pick up the phone and call. why is it always me who has to make the initiation

i have been turned down in a potential relationship due to three factors: 

age
the number of degrees i hold
i know what i want in life, that i have my life figured out

all in all, he was intimidated. Period.

Even independent women need love and to be loved