So, I’ve been in Sydney a little over a week now. It has been a big mix of emotions. I have felt excited, lonely, invincible and eager all in a weeks time.  I am constantly reminding myself that I am doing what is best for me and reminding myself to take this year by the horns and really find what makes me tick. As I sat at my desk at my 9 to 5 job I just knew.. there has to be more to life than this. My life cannot be a rat race of getting up, going to work, making enough money to buy a nicer car I don’t need, furniture I can live without and funding weekend activities highly revolving around alcohol. I was and still am at a really weird point in my life. I am 25.. so society tells me its time to settle down, find a man, get wifed up, get a home together, get a dog, have babies in the next 5 years and do all of the “normal” things in life. But somehow.. the thought of complacency like that terrifies me. I’m not ready and I’ve found there is nothing wrong with it. I have been working a 9 to 5 since I was 18 and I appreciate it and I have learned SO much. I have a career path that I can go back to for the rest of my life. I am so fortunate and so thankful to have had the opportunities I have and to have the job that I did. But somehow I just want more. And I’m not talking more materialistic things right now. I want more out of my life. The world is so big and America is so small. I am so so so excited for this next year in my life. And maybe I just need to get this adventure seeking part of my soul out of the way.. or maybe it’ll never go away and ill be this way for the rest of my life.

This city is absolutely huge and full of things to do. I arrived and was slightly overwhelmed but of course started checking out the big sites. Opera house, Harbor bridge, took the ferry over to Manly, saw a whale in the harbor which made my entire day. I was just unimpressed with the city center of Sydney. Perhaps its because I’m a beach gal at heart but I have met hardly any Australians! I was meeting a lot of cool people with beautiful souls but they would come and go and be out of my life within days. It was disheartening in a way because I miss having actual friends. But at the same time it kept me doing what I wanted to do and not what we wanted to do. I am on my own here and I need to be comfortable with it.  But then I made my way over to Bondi Beach and fell in love. I feel so much more at home and happy here. I just love the beach and everything it has to offer. I love sitting by the ocean and realizing how small your problems are and how big this world is. And to know someone at home has their feet in the ocean as well somehow connecting all of us. I am in an amazing hostel called Bondi Backpackers. They have daily activities such as yoga on the beach, a BBQ on the rooftop, free wine and free surf board rentals. They have an awesome travel agency on the bottom floor that helped me get my entire East Coast trip! So on Friday I am headed up the East Coast.. blog post to come!