This blog post has been a long time coming. Where do I even begin?

I guess I need to go all the way back to the beginning of this year. As you know, we moved to Melbourne in March this year on very short notice, following some visa difficulties and my subsequent decision to pursue a masters in Marketing and Communications in Melbourne. I always knew that I wanted to do this master, but didn’t anticipate that 2019 would be the year. As it dawned on us that we only had two options - leave Australia for good or study - we decided that it didn’t make sense to wait another 2-3 years to do a master if it could help us stay in the country now. And so I applied for universities in late January, got accepted mid-February, quit my full-time job, had my last day at work on the 1st of March, moved to Melbourne and had my first day of uni two days later on the 4th of March. All in all, it was a 1½ months turnover. It was pure madness.