Four Months Away from Home

So I've passed the four month mark since I left my home in Calgary. I guess it seems like a big step to go from living at home in the same town I grew up in to living on my own on the other side of the world. I keep telling people that the adjustment living on my own and being in a different country hasn't been that bad - Brisbane/Australia and Calgary/Canada have a lot of similarities and there wasn't much of a culture shock.

Maybe it's from the fact that I don't have a car down here and haven't been traveling by car much, but I haven't seen any car accidents. Pretty surprising since Brisbane is so spread out that you basically have to have a car if you want to get around efficiently. My dad e-mailed me a few weeks ago telling me that mom got into a car accident. I received the e-mail on my phone and had a mini-panic attack. I found out later that some guy in an SUV backed up into the front of my mom's TSX. Probably a few thousand dollars damage just because some young guy didn't look behind him before backing up.


I do miss snow. It's interesting meeting people here who have never been up close and personal with snow. My parents just sent me a photo of our neighbourhood after some light snowfall in May. Personally, I think snow is beautiful. I couldn't imagine celebrating Christmas without snow.

A picture of my cul-de-sac in Calgary