Port Arthur

Port Arthur, July 2015

A week after these were taken I met a pretty great guy that I very quickly fell in love with. Now, in two weeks I'm leaving for Berlin for eight months while he leaves for Asia. Who knows when we'll see each other again, but like they say, distance makes the heart grow fonder - I hope?

room for a pony

Room for a Pony, Hobart

I've spent the past weekend crying over things that I didn't think I cared about anymore, it turns out, those feelings never really go away.

Looking over a bridge on the drive to Port Arthur Tasmania, June 2015

Mount Field National Park, Tasmania June 2015

Can't seem to shake this feeling tonight, regretting some things I said yesterday. Trying to duck my head under the covers called university to forget about it. Everything will be okay in the morning.

exchange

The Church Ruins at Port Arthur Tasmania, June 2015

So after about a year and a half of planning (along with a crazy amount of hoping and wishing), I finally received my acceptance email for Semester 1 2016 exchange to Humboldt University in Berlin. I was overly ecstatic, which very quickly turned into scared and slighted daunted - but all in the best way possible. My semester doesn't begin until late April, with an optional month of language class in March (which I will more than likely take up), but I now have so much to plan and do before I leave in (hopefully) early January. My to do list at the moment includes, saving money, buying a new laptop, moving my stuff back into one of my parents houses, sorting out all my stuff and figuring out what I'll need to take with me, research and apply for dorms, learn atleast a little bit of German, and the list goes on and on. I have the option to stay there until the end of the year (if I decide to defer second semester in 2016) which is very tempting at the moment, to be able to really indulge in the European lifestyle - but it all really depends on visas, money, time and how homesick I will get when I'm overseas (having said that, I have always regretted not staying the year when I lived in Bordeaux). Anyways, so many things to do!

but the monsters turned out to be just trees

Mount Field National Park Tasmania, June 2015

the houses of hobart.

Hobart, June 2015