Looking Forward to Something - When Traveling is Hard

When I booked my flight to Auckland, New Zealand, I knew that it would be hard. I knew that being away from home for ten months wouldn't be easy, that I would be homesick, that I would want to quit.

And the first two months were, after only two weeks I wanted to fly back home. But I pushed through it. I got a job, I worked, I travelled, I met amazing people and I kind of forgot about being homesick. Now, as I am in Australia, traveling with a friend, my flight back home only two months away, it's getting worse again.

All the people I met in New Zealand are back home already, I have a lot to do back home before I go away, again. And I'm honestly not the biggest fan of Australia. All of that is making it super hard for me to enjoy the traveling. To enjoy my last few moths before I go back home, before I see everyone again.

And of course, my time so far has been amazing, I've seen so many nice things, met so many amazing people and found out more about myself, about who I want to be.

But still, right now it's so hard to enjoy traveling, to enjoy what I'm seeing because being home again is so damn close and maybe that's what I want right now. To go back home. I'm not sure how I would be able to enjoy it again.

I'm flying back to New Zealand tomorrow, where I'll (hopefully) work again for three weeks and then another friend will visit me. And on the 6th of August I'll be back home. Just in time for my sister's birthday.

Anyway, on a happier note, let me tell you a bit about my time in Australia:

I met my favourite Space Ranger in Sydney which just made me more exited about going to Disney in four months.

I also went surfing where I gloriously fell and fell and fell. And I bruised basically my whole body. It was fun though!

We met a little penguin (we called him/ her Dave or Davina). The little penguins in Melbourne are actually the smallest penguins in the world, averaging at around 30cm! It was probably the cutest thing I've ever seen. Especially when one of them fell of the rocks backwards into the water. 

And we did so much more! It was a ton of fun, even though everything looks very similar here down under. 

Thank you for reading through all this. Do you guys have any tips for homesickness? 

Have a magical day!