Just Thinking…

I am feeling a bit more positive this morning. I think the antibiotics the doctor gave me are helping (I went yesterday arvo).

Having all this time to sit around makes me think about what I am going to do after the ski season. I have quite a few options and I am having a really hard time knowing what to do. The ones that involve travel seem great, like go to Canada or Spain or Scotland for their ski season then work in the UK. There is something about those options that I cant handle, I think its that is just too selfish. I want to be contributing to the world and while travelling means I know and understand more its not really helping anyone.

I was also thinking about why I decided earlier this year I wanted to go into ministry. I think its because I see that as a way to be doing helpful, meaningful work. I just cant handle the idea of studying for another 6 years or so, not at this point anyway.

So todays theory on what I want to do (and this is one I come back to quite often) is that I want to end up doing refugee advocacy. Maybe start with doind part time youth work and part time helping at the House of Welcome and visiting people at Villawood detention centre (and finding something in Wollongong that would be helpful for refugees too, like SCARF). Then as I go along I would be able to be more and more helpful. I think that is the way to go, it means I wont be moving to the UK at all, but I can still visit at some point.

I have also been thinking that I want to get healthy enough to be able to teach aerobics classes, it would be a good way to have a second income and it would force me to stay fit and healthy. The trick is that I have to get fit and healthy enough first.

I think I could be happy with a life like that. Now I just have to find a way to make it happen, that can wait till I finish my holiday I think.