Thursday, September 25, 2014

Welcome to my diary


Jorgs, that’s me. I was going to call this blog Wanderluster, since I’m such a travel nut job, but I decided that this blog isn’t going to be exclusively about my travel adventures, so best not to name it that! Feels like the hardest part of starting a blog is choosing a cool name for it. Hopefully this one is cool enough to entice a few readers.

Of course my name isn’t really Jorgs – that’s an abbreviation of my surname. If you follow this diary you’ll get to read about my job as a flight attendant and my many adventures in many far flung countries, look backs at my past adventures in far flung countries and lots of my thoughts too just on being a twenty something girl who is trying to find her feet and make a life.

I thought now would be a good time to start a blog, as I am about to make a big life change. For the past 17 months I have been living in Sydney, where I took up a new job flying internationally. It was something I always wanted to do – live somewhere other than Perth, in Western Australia, where I was born and lived my entire life, and my dream job being offered to me in a city I had visited many times and always adored seemed like a great opportunity to do that.

So I did it. And it has been interesting and fun and crazy and a fantastic learning curve for me. But it was also overwhelming and lonely and expensive and I didn’t make nearly as many friends as I thought I would. So I’ve decided to head back west, where the majority of my family and friends still live, and be a proper West Australian again. I’m going to keep my job, and simply come to Sydney whenever I have to work (for a flight attendant getting on a plane and commuting to another city for work is like getting on a bus every morning and going into the city for regular working folks!).

In just over a week I will be leaving my little flat that I had made my home, and my Dad and I will be driving across the Nullarbor back to Perth. A week after that my only sibling will be getting married and I will be trying to settle back into living with my parents (what have I done!?).
So stay tuned for more bonkers tales of the bonkers life of a commuting flight attendant!

 
Me on one of my many adventures in the US - this one is Yosemite National Park in California, 2011

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