Australian Day

One of the great things about living in Edinburgh, is the international community. I love the fact that I can meet people from most any part of the world in most places. There is a large Australian & New Zealand community not only in Edinburgh, but in the UK in general. I am guilty of doing one of the things in a relationship that one should never do - I spent way too much together time with my Ex and neglected doing the things that made me happy. In my defense, I spent half of last year recovering from a life threatening illness (I had a kidney infection which subsequently turned into sepsis when the Romanian GP I went to incorrectly sent me home with 40c/104F degrees fever instead of the hospital - went into cardiac arrest the first day in hospital as a result). I was also still doing the MBA and managing to work - which left little time for interesting Jennifer pursuits. Well now that I am feeling better and the Ex has departed, I have again started going out and having fun. One website that makes this possible is www.meetup.com. On this site, you can meet like minded people who like to get out and meet new people for whatever reason. One group I belong to is the Intrepids - a group of people who like to do anything from snowboarding to meeting up for drinks. I decided to go to Australia Day at the Walkabout bar, http://www.walkabout.eu.com/. It was so much fun! I danced and partied and drank Foster's (which in Australia, I have been told means "Australian for piss" - so popular outside of Australia but not quite the case for natives- perhaps this has changed?).

I left thinking that I should pursue my dreams - that passing through such a rough year last year surely is meant to tell me something - is someone above shaking me to tell me to wake up to my life and what I should be doing while here? I don't know - but what I do know is that I am listening now and great things lie ahead - I know it like I have never known anything before.