Just a normal everyday girl who decided to take a leap into the unknown

Hi Everyone, 

Have you ever thought about totally changing your life? About just packing up everything and starting fresh? 

My name is Beth, I am an everyday girl of 26 years from a regular town on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria Australia and I have done just that, and I'm not going to lie, I'm scared shitless! 

Only a week ago I had a job I had been in for over a year, I lived with my parents with one of my best friends, Amy, I spent a lot of time with my family and friends and I enjoyed the in and outs of everyday life. Now I am sitting in the lounge room of an English house which they call a bungalow, in Essex England, with people that may have the same words as us, but speak a totally different language, with nothing but my suitcases, my iPad, my new SLR camera that i bought from the airport (i love it!), my dreams and ........my English boyfriend, Dean, who just left for work. 

This blog will be a mix of how I managed to get here and how I cope with missing my old life, friends and family to how i go coping with a new country, new friends, new family, new job, moving in with a boy for the first time and basically starting a new life, and I guess, a new beth! 

I am not going to fluff any of this up, I want to give you a real view into not just the good times, but the bad times too. I will be as raw as possible with my feelings and how I go about coping with things....and NOT coping with things. All I ask from you is to PLEASE excuse with grammar and spelling! Everyone that knows me, which you will to in time, knows that this area is not my forte and I really don't like it when people pull me up on it. Why let spelling and grammar errors get in the way of a good story I say! If you know what I mean please be kind and just go with it ;P 

You may wonder why i decided to write this blog and why I want to be so raw.... and the answers are both deep and yet some boring and selfish. boring and selfish first, so by the end of the paragraph you will still like me. Firstly, I promised all my friends and family i would keep in contact with them, and by doing a blog it means that i only have to tell the story once. I'm sure you can relate to this, for example when you have just come back from holidays and everyone asks "how was it?". the first time you tell someone you go into great detail and length, but by the 10th person you just answer "it was good". The 2nd reason is that this blog will act like a diary for me, so when I am old and grey sitting at a nursing home I can read back on my adventures and remind myself of everything I have done, and because I will be senile I will forget what I read and so can read it over and over and it won't get old! Thirdly, I what to show people that everyone goes through moments in their life that are scary, hard and tough, but by pushing through those moments you can have those other moments in life that are rewarding, amazing and make you think "life is pretty fucking amazing!".   

I wont lie, I'm excited, yet a little nervous, to invite you into my new world and allowing you to get to know me by telling you about my old one, but here it goes........ 

Oh my god, it just hit me again....... I'm living in England!!! :-O