Big Time, Big Choices

 

I finally made my decision. Eventhough I know so well what I want, when it comes to decide how getting there it's not as simple. My initial plan was only to spend 5 months months here and go back to Rio to finish my Psychology degree. With so many new things coming across I ended up bitten by the travelling bug and fell in love with a particular country: Indonesia. Obviously it's just not possible to live there, the money is shit, specially because I don't have any qualification yet. Going from Brazil to Indo is something you do once in a blue moon, if ever, but from here it's just a handful of working days away, not to mention that oz itself absolutely rocks. So I made up my mind: I'm staying here and going over to Rio once a year from 2006 on. To get the resident visa, though, I would have to finish my degree here, but I can't afford the time it takes until you start to make real money with a profession like Psychology, so I had to find a shorcut. I hate kitchens, but this country desperately needs people who cook, and if I get my diploma on it, in two years I'll have my visa and a well paid job. From there, we'll see.. I might go back to Psychology (though I plan to do that only when I finally have some beard on my face) or stay cooking for a few years. Obviously what I really love doing, apart from surfing, is writing, so I'll keep hoping to get a job related to it sometime. I could't, however, stay a single more winter in Sydney, so i'm doing my Chef course on the Goldcoast, where the surfing goes off and the wheather is way warmer. Now I only have a month and a bit around here.. and I'd better make the most of it!