live in Australia

Okay, so the visas are through and we are officially almost good to go!
I get to spend a week in Sydney next April to get it validated (my mum was lovely about it and suggested I go there and hang out with the family, rather than annoy my stepdad while he’s jobhunting in Melbourne) and then, once the house is sold, the family are away!
It’s brilliant!
EEEEE :]

I’ll only mark this as done when I actually live there myself (so basically, when I’m done living in Edinburgh) but this is such a huge step towards that!

My mum doesn’t want me to get pierced or inked.
But I’ve thrown it out there that I’ll cover the excess medical costs myself and I really mean it.
So what I’ll do is I’ll first save up £100 to cover the extra stuff (won’t take long at all) and then get booked in for my tattoo and then go get my lip done.

I’m very lucky that I get paid weekly!

The sooner I get my lip done the better tbh; I’ll have to take it out for the xrays and I don’t want it to not be healed up by then.

We’re up to the medical stage of our visas.
That can only be a good thing.
But oh good Lord, they’re expensive.
I almost feel guilty, because I’m not even going for another three years and all this money is being forked out.
And also because I want tattoos and piercings and I want them right freakin’ now and thats a whole extra pile of money on top. If I could afford to have this all done myself, I would do, just so I can become the person I want to be and not have to put my family out.

It’s also strange to think that we could get this far and still be turned away.
I don’t like to think what that would do to my family.

I know that I’m going to have the happiest three years of my life in Edinburgh at university, the lure of Australia will always be there.
I feel very fortunate that this is more than just a dream for me, that it’s not a desperate ideal and a way to escape the rat race.
Next summer, the family will be moving over there and I’ll be able to spend Christmas and summer holidays over there. Instead of getting a train home to Preston, I’ll be getting a flight over to Melbourne.
I’ll have my first proper job in one of the first places I ever really felt truly at home. I’ll have my first house there.
It’s wild. WILD.

The only thing that I’m a little iffy about?
Gigs.
Live music.
I need to really look into this.
Because much as I want to be a filmmaker, I know I need to be near the live music scene, otherwise the back up plans won’t ever be available to me.

My auntie officially got her visa yesterday :]
We’re having Christmas this summer which therefore means she’ll be gone before the year is out.
Ours should come through soon, which hopefully means that next summer I won’t be coming home to Preston, but instead be off to New South Wales :]