When people tell me about their travel it seems they have
kept out one key piece of the story. The days leading up to the dropping of everything
you have ever known and leaving to the other side of the world are completely and
utterly nerve racking. It feels like if I am not up to anything or thinking
about something other than leaving then my stomach is on constant red alert and
my head feels like I just spent a night drinking appletini’s. And when you
complain to people about these problems they just come at you with how jealous
they are of you leaving to a hot place. Like come on people I am not spouting
out my complaints to you because I want to hear how fortunate I am. I want to hear
how it’s going to get better or just to at the least have your sympathy for my
stress. I know slightly unrealistic of me but if you know me well than you should
quite use to the unrealistic.
But enough of my pain and more of the introduction; my name
is Tanner Aronson and although nighty percent of will have come to this blog
from a link I posted on social media some of you may not know my story. So my
story, about 8 months ago I applied to a partnership program at the University
of British Columbia that would take five environmental students to different
universities around the world to work at an university to complete the last of
their bachelors and or masters and then be hooked up with a nearby company to
work for the remainder of what would be a yearlong program. I applied to this
program on a the very slim chance that I would get on seeing as my grades while
I was in school were not quite the A’s that I expected the rest of the competition
to have. As it turned out they picked five students and I was not to be one of
them although disappointed the organizers did advise me that I had made it to
the final ten, which to me put a little more appreciation into how the
university viewed experience. Fast forward to the start of September I get a
call from one of my former professors at UBC asking if I would be interested in
heading down to for an interview. As it had turned out the lady destined for
the job at the University of Sydney had decided to back out and stay in
Vancouver for reasons of her choosing. I immediately accepted the job and made
arrangements to leave for Australia. So that’s the background and where we are
at today me awake early morning of the day of travel with my mind going the
airspeed velocity of an unladened swallow, African of course, and unable to
sleep so thus I find myself making my first blog entry of what I can only hope
to be a successful journey. So for now I think I will sign off as I can feel
sleep slowly approaching.
Tata
for now, Tanner
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