My name is Bradford Jefferies. Having lived in New Zealand for the past 22 years, I now plan to head out and explore the world. My interests include travelling, new media, languages and astronomy.
I'm hoping that through this blog I'll be able to keep everyone updated as to what I'm up to, share my experiences with and where I'm headed to next. Unsure as to where I'll end up, as at this stage I've only got a one way ticket. I'm heading to Southeast Asia for 7 weeks, and then onto Frankfurt. I'm heading to Berlin on arrival, where I've enrolled in a language school for the first month that I'm there. After that, I'm on my own.
My motivation? I've always wanted to travel, and about six months ago I had a bit of an episode that I could only describe as pathetic as a quarter life crisis. I feared that I did not know what I wanted to do with my life, and that if it was going to continue along the way it was, I'd blink and be in the same job doing the same thing ten years from now. I was unsure as to whether I wanted to travel, save and put a deposit on a house, go back to uni or just needed a change of scenery and to move to another city/country. It wasn't until I was discussing this with a mate that she told me I suffer from being a westernized child - I was too spoilt for choice. It put everything in perspective; very few others have all these options available to them, and here I was moaning because I couldn't pick just one.
I figured I wasn't sure what I was passionate enough about to go back to study, and there will be plenty of time to settle down later, so I'm packing my bags and taking the plunge, hoping that it'll open my eyes and I'll have some sort of epiphany overseas as to what I want to do with my life. In the meantime, I plan to live it up and see what happens.
That was me six months ago. My travel is now booked, and I'm counting down the weeks before I leave. I still have just under four months to wait, and the excitement is almost too much to contain. In some ways though, I feel like I'm just waiting to leave, and I'm not enjoying now for what I should be. Plenty to do yet though: apply for visas, travel vaccinations etc.
That's a bit about myself. I'll write again closer to the time I'm leaving.
I'm hoping that through this blog I'll be able to keep everyone updated as to what I'm up to, share my experiences with and where I'm headed to next. Unsure as to where I'll end up, as at this stage I've only got a one way ticket. I'm heading to Southeast Asia for 7 weeks, and then onto Frankfurt. I'm heading to Berlin on arrival, where I've enrolled in a language school for the first month that I'm there. After that, I'm on my own.
My motivation? I've always wanted to travel, and about six months ago I had a bit of an episode that I could only describe as pathetic as a quarter life crisis. I feared that I did not know what I wanted to do with my life, and that if it was going to continue along the way it was, I'd blink and be in the same job doing the same thing ten years from now. I was unsure as to whether I wanted to travel, save and put a deposit on a house, go back to uni or just needed a change of scenery and to move to another city/country. It wasn't until I was discussing this with a mate that she told me I suffer from being a westernized child - I was too spoilt for choice. It put everything in perspective; very few others have all these options available to them, and here I was moaning because I couldn't pick just one.
I figured I wasn't sure what I was passionate enough about to go back to study, and there will be plenty of time to settle down later, so I'm packing my bags and taking the plunge, hoping that it'll open my eyes and I'll have some sort of epiphany overseas as to what I want to do with my life. In the meantime, I plan to live it up and see what happens.
That was me six months ago. My travel is now booked, and I'm counting down the weeks before I leave. I still have just under four months to wait, and the excitement is almost too much to contain. In some ways though, I feel like I'm just waiting to leave, and I'm not enjoying now for what I should be. Plenty to do yet though: apply for visas, travel vaccinations etc.
That's a bit about myself. I'll write again closer to the time I'm leaving.
