The next place

I'm leaving here tomorrow morning - heading inland to another regional centre. In some ways the apprehension is just like leaving home was 3 days ago; I know people here, people know me, I've enjoyed working here, while the next job is just a whole heap of unknowns. My resident spent quite a bit of time today looking up things for me to do and telling me about people he knows there - such a lovely person. I don't think he will ever really understand how much he has helped me in his little everyday friendly way. It's just another example of how people have popped up and out of the woodwork to contribute a little to my hmmm...recovery? That's what this ultimately is, isn't it?

One of my friends in Perth suggested going over there for a few days after I finish up with this working trip. It sounds really appealing actually, getting out of town again and seeing different people, going to new places. I was talking to Mum about it on the phone and realising that potentially there's really not very much time between now and when I'll probably leave. Maybe a month or 5 weeks after I get back. I'd like to fit in a trip to Vietnam if I can. Will have to talk to AVI about whether that can be slotted in before I start work in Thailand.

I'm trying to think ahead, be a bit organised. I emailed uni today to ask about getting a project out of this year. In some ways I'd like to, it would be nice to have proper documentation about what I've done - getting some sort of concrete result out of it (ie formally written) would be a nice counterpoint to what will hopefully be an amazing personal experience.