The beginning of the rest of my life!

Will begin on the 29th of October! For those of you who don't know, and I'm sure that's a minority since it's pretty much all I talk about, I'm moving to Australia - flight leaving on the 29th of October. Pretty damn exciting really - lots of people ask me if I'm scared. but no, not really. Perhaps ignorance is bliss, perhaps I'm just brave, but it doesn't seem to me like I'm doing anything crazy. So it's a one way ticket and I don't really know anybody over there, but hey, it's all good fun.

I've always wanted to go to Australia, mainly because my dad went there when he was young (many years ago :P), and because pretty much everyone I've asked say they loved it when they went there. So in my head it's the land where dreams come true (cheesy I know), but the world's my oyster and I don't much like seafood.

Anyway, I'm Ben and I'm an alcoholic... Wait, what? I'm making a blog so you guys 'n' gals can follow me about on my travels and see what I'm doing where - there'll be pictures to see (if I find out how to upload pictures), and I'll give updates on how things are going. First step though is to finish working, sell most of my worldly posessions and get on the plane. I get to stay in Hong Kong for 3 days, which is pretty damned exciting - I've never really wanted to go to a Disney Land, but there's one in HK so I may as well go.

Then I'm landing in Australia (Perth, WA) at 23:45 their time (oh the jet lag will be interesting). Once there I have to find somewhere to live and a job to work! That'll be exciting, who knows what odd job I'll end up doing, *rolls dice* come on bookshop! Once the summer has passed (and it'll be hell for me, I'm not that good at summers over here!) I'll hopefully move on out into the bush and find some job doing manual labour, visit my uncle and a friend in NZ then head back to the mainland for University. So that's my life all planned out! At least for the next year or two.

And now for a little more information about me, if you so care to read on. As we established earlier, I'm Ben (but not an alcoholic, honest!), and you can call me Conan if you like. I almost changed my name by deedpoll to Conan earlier in the year for some reason. Robert E. Howard wrote the Conan books, and I read them and became slightly obsessed at the time - but they are great stories. I've not read his other stories, but they're being released in an awesome binding in a couple of days so I'll buy them then (so excited!).

Music is another thing that I love - and I love wide range of it too. As phil amusingly pointed out yesterday, my music taste ranges from 40's swing to obscure german metal bands. Other hobbies include badminton and sitting around. I want to learn to surf and snowboard though, so they may soon be added to my list of hobbies. Now I've run out of ideas of what to write about, so I shall cease to write!

That was a rather long post, congratulations if you read it all! I shouldn't think the following posts will be as long. More to follow.