culture shocked olga

here i sit early on a monday morning frantically trying to finish off job applications...and life appears to have sunk back into normality. well as normal as you can get after two months of travelling and living out of a backpack!

i thought i would have started with post trip reflections...but that just doesn't seem right. so instead i'm going to give you all a little snapshot of what kind of crazy things that i learnt while on this trip...

WHILE IN EUROPE, I LEARNT HOW TO...

1. carry 14kg of clothes, shoes, souvenirs, toiletries, other seemingly useful but really useless things in a backpack on my back. (my little red bag put on 3kg in london...oops)

2. run frantically with, climb stairs with, climb steep hills with, sleep on, efficiently pack, hike with and protect above mentioned backpack

3. drink a variety of beer, spirits and unknown substances

4. find my way around a country knowing about 4 words of the language and lots of hand signals

5. talk like a real aussie mate!

6. stay up drinking at an insane hour...and THEN go and party

7. take a good photo...without me in it

8. type up emails on weird keyboards with all the keys in the wrong place

9. cook...vegetable pasta

10. meet lots of people and then never see them again

so i didn't throw an exorbitant amount of money down the drain for nothing...i learnt something!