Life in Australia
- Before I Was A Grownup, Drama Queen, Everyday Adventures, Life in Australia, Nature Loving Hippy, Stratford-upon-Avon, Travel
The Reluctant Grownup
I feel I should probably explain the title of my blog before I get too far into this. See, I have just completed my first full year of working in a job I call a "REAL JOB," with big fat quotation marks. My early twenties were spent earning peanuts in non-profits and loving life, and now I’m trying to be the proverbial ant slaving away for the winter. I liked being a grasshopper better. A quick recap of what I’ve done since college: (1) Went to Australia for a year. Wore the same 5 outfits over and over, had my boyfriend cut my hair, we slept in the back of an…
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An American in . . . America
Sometimes, I miss being "The American." I have lived abroad twice, a year in England and a year in Australia, both in my early twenties. Living abroad is something I highly recommend – it gives you a sense of self, a sense of how deeply and unconsciously your homeland shapes your every thought. A small example – soda cans in Australia are slightly bigger. This completely drove me wild for the first 2 weeks I was there. You walk into a gas (aka petrol) station, and see these stacks of cans behind the glass fridge doors, and they just don’t look right. You keep looking at them, your eye is…