Selling old stuff

Today was a good day. I made a flea market sale of my no longer needed things, and it went good.

Killing two birds with one stone, I made some extra money for Australia and reduced my stock of belongings. Simplify your life!

Making myself free

My company informed me that they can't give me unpaid leave. So today I signed my cancellation agreement. I'll have 3 more weeks of work, then the rest of the year will be vacation.

First posting

Hello, World!

I hate blogs. At least that's what I always said. And now I have my own. What a shame!

What made me change my mind, and give blogging a try? I'm going abroad for a while. From Germany, where I was born 35 years ago and spent most of my life, to Australia. I don't know how long I will stay there - it all depends on how I'll like it and how badly I'll miss my friends and family here and on whether I'll find a job in Down Under or not, and whether I'll find new friends there. I don't know where I'm going to live either - my plan is to initally rent a room somewhere in Greater Sydney and then see what will come up. I'm travelling alone and a big adventure is before me, an unknown territory, a book with empty pages waiting to be filled.

In any case there are friends, family and colleagues who will want to know how I'm doing and I decided instead of sending e-mail newsletters I'll try to do a blog instead. This blog, like most, is not going to interest the world, but I don't care if it's available on the web public to everyone. I'm not going to write too personal or embarassing things here, although knowing myself I'll probably put down a lot of personal thoughts, if only to get them "out of my system", as they say.

All my German-speaking friends: please forgive that I'm writing this in English. I thought of making the blog bilingual, but that's a lot of extra work, so please bear with me if most of it will be in English only.

And thank you for listening! :)