And...
...I have a contract until the end of July. The salary is very good and I've decided to get rid of my overdraft. The student loan can wait till I'm a fully-fledged psychologist, but having an overdraft hanging over you is no fun, as they can (and sometimes do) ask for it back at any time. So my task is to save £2000 to get rid of that, £500 for the TESOL course, £400 for a flight from London to Bangkok (or wherever), and maybe another £2000 to live on before I start teaching English.
£5000!!!! That's $13,000, which is quite a lot, but hey, it's nice to have a target.
Life is getting simpler again. I had a shopping list with things like speakers and CDs and things, and as I walked into the shop to have a look, I knew straight-away it wasn't right. All of that just makes me feel cluttered - only a month or two ago I nearly gave away my camera and MP3 player because I felt too attached to them. It's good to listen to your soul.
Instead I'm really enjoying my Thai cooking (if you buy good ingredients it's still much cheaper than eating out, but you can eat very well), Eastern calligraphy, and am feeling more healthy. With a good diet comes better health all-round: I'm hardly drinking (alcohol or coffee), walking over an hour every day, feeling peaceful and sleeping well.
It feels so good to be living in a largely Western country, in many ways similar to England, but not going back to exactly how things were back in England. I thought that maybe the ways I've changed are only sustainable with a hippy-like backpacker lifestyle, but it turns out it's do-able in normal life too. It helps that NZ is breathtakingly beautiful on a daily basis, but it's becoming apparent that simplicity is not impossible to cultivate in the midst of the hurly-burly of Western life.
Hope.
£5000!!!! That's $13,000, which is quite a lot, but hey, it's nice to have a target.
Life is getting simpler again. I had a shopping list with things like speakers and CDs and things, and as I walked into the shop to have a look, I knew straight-away it wasn't right. All of that just makes me feel cluttered - only a month or two ago I nearly gave away my camera and MP3 player because I felt too attached to them. It's good to listen to your soul.
Instead I'm really enjoying my Thai cooking (if you buy good ingredients it's still much cheaper than eating out, but you can eat very well), Eastern calligraphy, and am feeling more healthy. With a good diet comes better health all-round: I'm hardly drinking (alcohol or coffee), walking over an hour every day, feeling peaceful and sleeping well.
It feels so good to be living in a largely Western country, in many ways similar to England, but not going back to exactly how things were back in England. I thought that maybe the ways I've changed are only sustainable with a hippy-like backpacker lifestyle, but it turns out it's do-able in normal life too. It helps that NZ is breathtakingly beautiful on a daily basis, but it's becoming apparent that simplicity is not impossible to cultivate in the midst of the hurly-burly of Western life.
Hope.
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