On the 4th of May (Last night in Australia) got to go out for tea and went out to karaoke with Hayley, Sarah, Tess and I always So much fun, Belted out some Vanessa Amorosi.
So then the next morning it was the 5th of May, and started the day with a beautiful bunch of people, my people!
We got up early (5.30am) after going to bed about 1am. Travelled to a watch tower to watch the sunrise 3 of us (David, Sam and I) watched through cloud and fog, waiting for the others to arrive and they did but sadly after the sun had arrived. I enjoyed laughing and taking blinding photos in the freezing fresh air with these beautiful people :D. We then gave into our coldness and left and enjoyed a last breakfast together at acute little cafe.
And just to make the day a little bit more special, someone had discovered that my little town had that very day opened a comic book store!! :D AND it was free comic book day, meaning they gave everyone who wanted one a selection of 2 comic books. We arrived and I was So excited :D I usually had to travel to minotaur in Melbourne to get any comic books but here there were in my town, and the day I leave. However great reading material for the plane!
Drama; get ready to go, finally weigh my bag and discover it is something like 10kgs more than I need it to be. And I don’t leave myself enough time to repack before it is time to leave. And to make things worse just as I am leaving I bump into someone who finds out I am about to leave for South Africa and continues to tell me all about the risks, and pretty much saying ¾ of girls my age that go over there go missing, get raped or murdered!! THANKS. But he ended saying that he saying he hopes I have a great time but to be safe.
So I get the airport and I am to meet my team of 20 at a particular check in point and I still haven’t repacked my bag so I open my bag in to boot and begin to chuck things out here and there and with the help of Michael, Hayley and My mum. We got rid of some unneeded items from suitcase (a pair of thongs/flip flops which I ended up needing) and set off to meet everyone waiting for me inside the airport. We meet up and I reweigh my bag and it reads 25.5kg and limit is 23kg. But thankfully we paired up and I was pair with a guy with a bag of 16kg!! And we checked in and got our tickets and we very slowly made our ways to the terminal. And man did I have a big see off party of people because the rest of my team were only going for 3 weeks they all had 1-2 relatives each to see off whereas I had my mum, dad, Alex (sister) and he boyfriend Josh, Liam (brother), Hayley, Michael, Tess, James and JJ, so I had 10 people. We went through security and said bye to Tess, James, Alex, Josh, and JJ. Then it was time to board hugged mum, Michael, Hayley, Liam and Dad. Even it was hard I had a peace, but when I hugged dad he hugged me back and he said, “You know now I can’t let you go.” But he reluctantly let me go and pushed me in the direction of the line. I walked tears strolling down my cheeks talking steps further and further away from comfort, my family but walking towards my home, and a new family. 
I got on the plane and took a deep breath and I was alone no one next to me and it gave me the space I needed to collect my thoughts and to be emotional and to spend time processing it with God.
This is it..... The adventure begins.
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