Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Qantas Eve

It's the night before I board the flight for Australia (which means I won't actually arrive in Sydney until Friday morning EST in Australia) and as you can imagine I'm feeling a fairly wide range of emotions--excitedness being the foremost, nervousness following not too far behind, a little sadness, etc. But mostly it's this new feeling that I can only describe as openness, which is fitting considering I'm visiting the land of vast openness. It's a strange sensation of anticipating the unknown...very scary but kind of cool and freeing.

Before I get ahead of myself, I want to state that I'm not altogether comfortable with this idea of keeping a blog. I've never been good at keeping journals. I always hate how I sound after reading back what I've written--just so self-absorbed or something. So I'm aiming this blog to be more of a travelogue than a personal diary, but of course it would be impossible to bar emotion and personal experience from my writing completely. So in the words of Shekinah, shhhhh just let it happen :-)

Anyhoo, I hope this blog becomes a sanctuary for my Australian experience, as well as a place for my family and friends to visit and live vicariously or at least feel like they are in touch with me even through words. I strongly encourage everyone to leave feedback, comments, anything silly, stupid, funny, enlightening, etc. And pass it along to anyone you think might be interested (and those who just need a hint to get outta the house!).

P.S. I want to thank everyone for encouraging me to do this (both the blog and the travel thing). Before I wax sentimental and tell everyone how much I love them and will miss them, I'm going to sign off. Words are never satisfactory...

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