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Have I nothing to say?

As I sit staring at the computer screen wondering what to write, some random thoughts run through my head...have I nothing to say? Have I nothing to communicate? Has writing a few words become so difficult for me? Am I suffering from writers block? Have I become so addicted to online games that I cannot sit in front of the computer unless there is some animated activity going on? What the hell is wrong with me?

Let me try and answer all these questions and try and figure out what the problem is?  I do have stuff to say and do have things to tell! 

Here goes... I have just put in my papers at my current job and am going to be in Melbourne this July. I will be starting my Masters in Professional Communications at Deakin University! This will be the start of a new era in my life...I will be in a completely new environment...an entirely new country! I am going through such mixed emotions currently...I am excited about the newness I am going to experience, am anxious about what the future will hold, am sad that I won't be seeing my friends and family for a long time. Its not like I haven’t stayed away from family, but it is the first time I will be moving out of the country for so long!  My eldest sister and brother in law are expecting their first baby…it is due end of Jan 2008!! I am sad that I won’t be around to see her with her big belly. There is so much I will miss here…but I am sure I will be experiencing equally more exciting things in Melbourne, as I will be staying with my elder brother…like I said, I am going through mixed emotions! 

I guess this is it, nothing more I can think of to write about right now. Maybe I will be posting a lot more frequently once I am in Melbourne!

BTW how many of you guys are from Melbourne and don’t mind showing me around? :-)

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