Finding My Fix: Chronicles of a Travel Junkie

Wow, tomorrow I leave for my second spring break in 5 months! I can’t believe I’ve been in this country for TWO WHOLE MONTHS!!! I have three left before I get home! Where has all the time gone?

I have started to notice an unnerving trend… I feel depressed for about an hour a day, usually when going to bed or waking up. I’m not sure what causes it exactly, but for the one hour a day I feel pretty miserable. Luckily that hour gets counterbalanced by the other 23 which tend to be filled with unknown happiness, relaxation, or adventure.

I feel to some extent that I have recently fallen into a “comfort zone,” and have stopped meeting new people. So I’ve decided that I will meet new people in Fiji, and when classes start again, I will walk up to the randomest of students in my class and invite them to have coffee. I will say something like this:

“Hi, my name is Andrea. I’m not trying to come onto you; I’m just knew here and trying to meet people. Would you like to get coffee?”

I think New Zealand has changed me. I can be my own sarcastic self here, and I like it that way.

Tags: 1. Australasia, 1A. New Zealand, 1C. Fiji

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