Ello. I seem to have successfully made a blog! Fingers crossed this works cos the last time i tried i lost all my content into the cyber ether.

It's Christmas eve in Sydney and i fly out on my year-long trip on tuesday. It really doesn't feel like Christmas because i have spent the entire week running errands, frequenting embassies and consulates in Sydney and Canberra and returning to the pharmacy for the many things i forgot the first three times i went there. I'm now at the point where i'm just concentrating on getting to the airport with my passport.

Thanks to everyone who came to our farewell on the weekend, it was totally gnarly. We started at the lovely Forresters Hotel, before moving on to 'old faithful' Spectrum (it's franchised throughout Ireland and India, right??) and a notably smaller yet no quieter crew finished the night off at that pinnacle of high class, Kinselas. Had a great night out, i even partly enjoyed losing my phone because it was just so funny that myself, monique and chris had all lost our phones in the month preceding our departure (a sign of things to come?).

Hopefully there are some photos that you can see somewhere near this text.

Merry Christmas everyone!