time has come to conclude my time in australia. i am getting ready to leave and head on back to sweden.
there is a certain sadness about leaving this continent after 1.5 yrs here. it is a beautiful country with it's very particular flora and fauna. i will certainly miss having lorikeets, cockatoos and other parrots flying around wild. I will miss those blue and clear skies. i will miss the tropical rainforest and it's interesting abundance of edible fruits. I will miss seeing dolphins and whales in crystal clear water.I will miss those beaches that goes on for miles and miles so that you feel that you have your own private tropical beach.
Of course i will miss the palm trees. I will miss seeing kangaroos bounce around. I will miss the childlike feeling of amazement and excitement when i get to see a new type of animal, plant or insect that i know only exist here on this continent.
most of all i will miss all the beautiful friends i have made here.
I'd like to see you all in the future! please come and visit me and peter wherever we may end up:)
The feelings i have about returning to sweden are those of elevation. i am completely ready to return home and feel that my time in australia has naturally run out.I am longing for my homecountry in a way i haven't experienced before. i miss everyone back home and have felt so far removed for so long that my soul needs to connect again. i also miss the landscape, the trees, the soil, the chantrelles (of course), the moss, the berries, the lakes etc etc, yeah all those things that are beuatiful about sweden.
The time here in australia has helped me grow as a person and i'd like to believe that i am a little bit closer to understanding what i am supposed to do with my life.
and if not about what i am to do with my life at least what direction to take for the next few years. :)ok i admit it... i am as lost as always.
however i have been toying with the idea to go to uni and study since i found that there is such a science as ethnobotany. The idea has formed into more of a plan and the latest development is a determination to get my arse in gear and go and do it.
so that's the aim of the game and partly a reason for my restlessness to leave australia long before my visa expires. time for the next adventure in life....i can't wait.
i've got to go, i am coughing and disturbing the rest of the punters at the library.
hopefully i will shake this flu before getting on a plane, they will most definitely put me in quarantine as a suspect case of the swineflu.
talk soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment