3 weeks to go!

update: my backpack is packed (everything fits!!), australian bank account is applied for (westpac), health insurance is figured out, and the complex systems of australian cell phone plans are Beginning to be unraveled!

aussie word of the day:
barney - argument/trouble
(derivation = trouble - rubble - barney rubble - barney)

the blue centerlight

for those of you wondering where the name of my Australian blog came from, *the blue centerlight* is part of a quote from Kerouacs *On the Road* - one of my new favorites. this mostly autobiographical work was completed in only 3 weeks! it consists of a sort of rambling spontaneous confessional prose detailing out a road trip across the US and his relationships with some of the other beat authors and unconventional intellectuals of the day. so here it is, the quote that influenced me and this blog and my journey to Oz:

***but then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as Ive been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awwww!***

Michelles Australian Blog

hi all and welcome to my blog! here you will find updates and reflections on my journey that starts on August 15th in the gso airport and lands me in Sydney Australia two days later with a 1 year work/holiday visa, a backpack, one-week booked at the Wake Up Australia hostel, and not much else. where is it going to lead? well, you will just have to come back and find out, right mate? for now, see below for an australian dictionary word-of-the-day to get us started:

it'll be apples: it'll be all right