Oh The Place's You'll Go!

This post was inspired by 1) my background it was called "the places you'll go" and 2) Dr. Suess's book "Oh The Place's You'll Go".

As most of you know my family moved to Perth, Australia July of 2009 because of my dad's job. We were so excited because this is a once in a life time opportunity! And it was a very good career move for my dad. So the family came here and they loved it! Life here is slow paced, really relaxing. The beach is really really close by and there are beach bums every where!

So "Oh the place's I will go"...My mom gave me and my sister this book when we went to college because you never know the places or experiences life will bring you. I never thought in a million years that I or my family would be living in Australia! So I took advantage of the opportunity and took winter semester off this year to come home and relax after a pretty stressful semester. When I got here I knew it would be hard to leave. Because I love the sun, and the beach, and really the life to come with it. I once told my dad that if I could I would buy a boat before a car. He told me that it was stupid because how would I get the boat to the beach? DUhhh....FRIENDS. I am guessing if I could find a friend to tow my boat to the beach they wouldn't hate lounging and playing in the water with it. Anyway that is just info about who I am aka I love being in the water and playing!

There have been positives and negatives of being here. I don't mean to be a negative nancy but the hardest part for me was not having the close friends that I had back at school. Granted there are singles wards at school, but I didn't think it would be THAT bad down here. There was NO singles ward. The singles were dispersed among the family wards. Some had 10-12 other aka mine had 5. The singles here were not young either well the ones in my ward. The other wards are like 30-45 minutes away, and just never had the chance to meet them. Anyway the singles in my ward are a little older 25-30 and working or finishing up school. not really the crowd I would hang out with. So that has deff been hard for me. I have REALLY REALLY learned not to take friends for granted. Life keeps throwing these learning experiences at me it's like one thing after another every single time! I am just thinking, I have learned!! Everything has stuck with me, obviously I am not getting something though! All I can say is THANK GOODNESS for facebook, through this wonderous invention I have been able to keep intouch with many of my friends whom I have missed SO much!

POSITIVES of being here! There are billions of things I have loved about being here that I possibly could not right all of them down, cause my fingers would fall off and my chance of getting carpal tunnel would porbably increase by 75%. So to name just a few...1)Home cooking!! Even though I don't eat out THAT much at school my meals are nothing like my moms! I have loved just having the family eating dinner together and socializing with them, and eating delish meals that I have loved for a long time!! I certainly do not look forward to having to cook again (the stove and me aren't best friends yet). 2) Doing laundry. I have the BEST MOM EVER!! When I come home from school she does my laundry for me, and I am so grateful for that! Even though it is a small thing and if she asked me to do my own I wouldn't mind, it is so sweet of her to do it for me even though I am almost 20. I love her for doing that!! THANKS MOM! I have ABSOLUTELY LOVED living in the LAND DOWN UNDER. It is unreal here. We live a short two minute walk to the beach and it's pretty private. I am going to take a video of walking there so you can all see! I have loved the sunny weather and skipping winter for once in my life! I will be going down to the beach right after this to soak of the last days of the sun before I head back to the ICEBURG. I have tried surfing a couple times, not as easy as it looks! Waves should be getting a bit bigger soon so hopefully I can get a good ride before I go!

There are only 7 days before I depart this blessed land for another blessed land. I am so excited to be going back to friends and half excited for school.