I know it's been a while and many of you may not even realise I'm back, on the blogspot domain. Long story short, domain expired, changed hands, changed host and now I'm in the middle of organising to bring the .net domain back online.
So there you have it. It's been silent for a long while.
I shall bring you back up to date. It's been 15 months of being offline. Too long if you ask me.
My life post March 2013 has consisted of getting the love of my life over from Belgium to Australia.
Tom and I met in Guatemala in 2012 and both our worlds and our plans for the future changed at that point.
Tom decided not to move to Colombia and Bolivia to stay with me and get involved in an adventure that would see both of us risk life and limb every two weeks to stay together. This cemented a bond that became unbreakable, even after the stresses of moving to Mexico and not finding any work there for either of us, or Tom coming to Australia and struggling to find work in a depressed job market in the first five months of being here.
I set aside my dream of doing yoga teacher training in Santa Monica on a scholarship with a yoga studio in Los Angeles and returned to Brisbane to pay off debts, work on Tom's student visa and organise a place to live.
It's now July 2014 and things are very different. We are living together and have learned how to function as a team in a different environment and embracing different values. Our priorities have changed but our dreams have not.
So while Tom has found his niche working for two Germans who value his hard work and ethics, I've started yoga teacher training. I am now halfway through the training with 6 months remaining and I really am excited. By the end of the year, I will be able to start changing my life again in the direction I wanted to go all along.
It's funny, coz my friend Yusuke just went through his own journey. It's been difficult he says but won't elaborate. I think I know what he means. He moved to Berlin to dedicate himself 100% to his music. And he did it. He focused on improving as a musician. And he's come back very different from the man who left. He has learned how to be in a relationship. He has learned how to focus on where he wants to be. He has learned to not waste time or energy on things he doesn't want to do. He's shown me that what I used to know still applies. Do only what you WANT to do. No compromises, no mediocrity.
And so, my journey begins again. This time to return to Central America on a project I actually want to be a part of. There is so much there to choose from but nothing concrete yet. I am also waiting to hear on a scholarship to China, to learn mandarin. We find out at the end of July whether we're moving to China in January or staying in Australia or getting ready to leave for the Americas again. Stay tuned.
