A reflection on why I'm here and home sickness

Ubirr Rock, Kakadu National Park, NT, by Miranda Abroad, water colour on paper

Why on earth am I here?
I don't mean alive, the meaning of life... Why am I in Peru?
The answer is simple; I am crazy and I think that in order to make opportunities for yourself you have to be flexible in the decisions you make and the paths you chose to take in life. Secondly, I have someone amazing here with me that helped me find that little bit extra bit of braveness to take the step, when I'd spent too long day dreaming about doing it, but not taking action towards accomplishing it.
But with everything you gain in life, you make sacrifices. I want to acknowledge that no matter how far you travel or how many amazing things you see and people you meet, you can never let go of where you know is your home. I am still very much in love my family, my best friends and my 3 homes (Darwin, Wollongong and Melbourne) and nothing will ever change that. But sometimes it's hard when you're so far away to show someone how much you care when you can't just reach out and give them a simple hug.
So, I lied in the first entry. The truth is that the purpose of this blog is to make it a gift to those I love. I want to spill out a little piece of me in the public forum of the internet (spew... horrible, distrustful space that you are full of too much pornography to say the least) so that maybe some of my loved ones can read this and smile and remember some of the laughter and tears we shared together once upon a time. It is to remind you, but also me, that I still exist in the obscurity of being surrounded by a foreign land and a foreign language - the crazy woman is still crazy! I promise!!!

The first entry

No one can argue with me that the Top End has some of the best sunsets in the world. This was taken in Acacia.

Well, it's hard to start writing anything really because there's so much paranoia around internet usage. I'm scared that if I start to write something, then one day if I lived in Russia, they'd find out that I'm a "writer" or "poet" and not really an engineer and maybe I'll end up in a ditch for being a suspected anti-regime activist or something crazy. All because once upon a time I had a sweet and innocent blog about living in Peru for 9 months! And my other fear is that someone will steal my precious poems before I get a chance to publish them, but what's the point in writing if noone ever reads your work?!

But at some point, today I guess will be the day, I have to face my fears and put something up on this blog.
In true engineer style, let's give this some boring structure!

Purpose of the Blog: To share a little bit more about living in Peru then just photos and maybe try to make a few jokes (although I'm afraid they're not my forteit in print). To share some creativity and poems and a bit more then just the present. There's enough structure in my life that this isn't going to be really structured. I'm going to be selfish and spontaneous and hopefully no one will read this, but for me it will become an important place where I can compile thoughts and reactions and forget about logical thinking and focus on creative thinking. This will help me balance out the yin and yang thinking! I hope that at least one person will read this and smile and then the blog will have achieved it's very unambitious purpose. So please, enjoy!!!