Not Doing Much...

Btw, Alaska? Didn't happen. And now I have a real job, 15 minutes from my parents' house, so I'll be in Cumming, GA indefinitely! And my parents are going on a cruise without me. So i have zero travel opportunities on the horizon until I earn vacation time. Might try to go to Munich for Oktoberfest next year. We'll see. Until then, don't expect much from this blog!

Alaska

My parents were originally wanting us to visit Alaska for 2-3 weeks right after my graduation, but my mom just got a new job and can't take that much time off yet. So, if I can get a summer internship, then we can probably go to Alaska when that's over, and then I can hopefully set up a job to start when I get back from that. So there are still some travel opportunities on the horizon, even though Australia is out. Maybe I'll make this a work/travel blog instead of just a travel blog.

Jobs?

So Australia is officially out. It's tough to get good, accurate international background checks done, so there was just too much risk involved and my parents weren't happy about it. But, I do have one interview tomorrow and am setting up another for next week, both for full-time paid internships. I was kind of thinking I needed to get a paid internship first, since I don't have much work experience in my degree. I'd prefer the one that I'm in the process of setting up an interview for next week, but we'll see how it goes. I'm just happy to have some prospects for after graduation besides Kohl's!

Australia?

So it's been quite a while since I posted on here, but I was just thinking about how this time last year I was in Europe, and I'm kind of missing it. I do have new travel opportunities on the horizon, however, so I thought I'd post about that. Also, I was looking at Ankush's blog and he made a list of where he has been and where he wants to go, so I thought I would make one too! So first off, here is that:


Places I've been to:
United States
Canada
Mexico
Bahamas
Belize
Honduras
Cayman Islands
France
Spain
Portugal
Ireland
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Vatican City
Croatia
Bosnia
Luxembourg
Belgium
Netherlands
Hungary
Austria

Places I want to go:
Australia
New Zealand
England
Scotland
Wales
Czech Republic
Brazil
Denmark
Greece
Sweden
Norway
Finland
South Africa
Japan
Alaska, Hawaii, & California




Now, about the travel opportunities on the horizon:


So the other day, a friend of mine started talking about the idea of Au Pairing in a foreign country somewhere after graduation. We started researching a bit, and I found a great one in Australia. I would really only have to Au Pair every other week, and have the off weeks to explore/travel. They want someone for a year, though, which is kind of a long time...but I think it would be awesome. I'm trying to convince my parents to let me go, because they really don't like the idea of me being across the world for a year, since 4 1/2 months last year was hard enough on them. But I'm definitely considering it, so I could be living in Australia in May. I'll keep you posted.