40 Days to Go!

40 Days to Go!

I’m not usually the type of person that’s a big fan of countdowns, but this term and this year has been different. Ever since the beginning of the year I’ve been mentally counting down the days until I leave Australia. Although I will be returning to Australia after 6 months (a change from my plans to be away indefinitely…longish story) .

Tonight, I finally made myself sit down and try and get some of my travel stuff together. You might wonder with still so much time, why bother? Well… if I don’t I’ll leave it to the very last minute and I know I’m going to let details slip with my tardiness.  It was a good thing I actually got started too, because after 2 hours of grabbing things off my laptop, pc and USB stick, I’ve finally managed to get all my plane tickets into one folder.

I haven’t even started with tour itineraries, accomodation bookings, visa applications and other weird official documents.

I’ve digressed a little… whilst doing all my planning I’ve had to create a mini ‘to-do’ list with a few dates and seeing as I did it in excel… the rows on the side conveniently indicated to me that there were only 40 days left.  Things have started to dawn on me and in a big way. I received (finally) from work my letter of approval for 6months leave. Even better it also came with a letter indicating a small pay rise according to my years of experience.