Futures abound

While living in Australia, and working a normal job, my mind started to wander. I have so much, time, energy, and resources, what do I want to do? And after some soul-searching and other hippie contrivances I have begun to think that I would be quite happy dedicating my efforts to reaching the stars. The big players in this game seem to be NASA, ESA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and maybe Virgin Galactic, along with several dozen universities and observatories around the world. Seeing that most of their people are top-notch physicists, I've applied to grad school and hope to polish the rust off my general science knowledge and gain some applicable astrophysics knowledge. At the end of the week, I should hear back from Lund University about admittance into their masters (which can turn into a doctorate) program. If not this year, I think more scuba diving will be in my immediate future. Wish me luck!

I will be passing into China from Vietnam shortly, and acceptance or not, will be attending another vipassana course in Hong Kong on the 10th of April. Much to think about, and my plan of action for after the course rests almost entirely on my application before the course. I should write another post (and buy plane tickets to somewhere!) between April 5th and 10th. Until then!

Restarting: Australia to Vietnam

It has been the greater part of a year since I've written here. Far too many and far too heavy things have happened to connect the last post to this one, so I will start in the middle and bring that up to today. My 1-year working-holiday visa in Australia expired on 2 March 2019, so a few weeks before that I handed in my 2+ weeks notice to The Coffee Club on Cairns' Esplanade and started saying goodbye to all the friends I had made since moving there five months earlier. The day before it expired I left the country with a very good friend of mine, Masaru, a Japanese college student who opted for a Australian working break in the middle of his studies. We came to Vietnam and traveled together for a week before him turning back to Australia and then Japan, while I carried on going north in Vietnam. Now, here in Hoi An, I enjoy the familiar habits of traveling new places and seeing amazing things. Another post is in order soon with the vast possibilities for the future to be layed out--but until then, tam biet!