Loathe: Being so far away

Don't get me wrong, I love NZ. But I just really hate that we are so far away from everything! Surrounded by ocean, it takes us a good few hours to get anywhere. And let's be honest, Australia is not that exciting.

Sometimes I think how awesome it would be to live in Europe, the Americas or Asia or Africa for that matter, and just cross from one country into another.

Can't wait till I can just travel around. That's what I'm planning to spend my mid to late twenties doing. Work for a few years, save up some money. Travel around South America. Then work and live in Canada for a while. Save up some more money. Visit Europe sporadically. And eventually spend a few weeks travelling around Asia before I come back home to NZ.

Oh dreams!

Loathe: Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano

Oh my. This is the ash cloud that will not go away. My flight home got cancelled last week because Jetstar wasn't flying. And it turns out that the ash cloud is coming back around. Fingers crossed that it's not going to disrupt my flight home on Sunday. I don't mean to sound like a whiny, white, upper-middle class twit (as Bridget Jones would say) but it's just really frustrating. I would love to stay home a bit longer, but I got shit ta do - ya know!

But I realise that a few days of flight disruption is much more preferable to what people in South America, particularly close to the volcano are experiencing right now. And the devastating impact it is having on their lives and the environment.

Photo credit:Francisco Ramos Mejia/AFP/Getty Images
The banks of the Ranjentuco stream are coated with ash