It's officially been one year since our big move to Melbourne, Australia! It feels like just yesterday that we said goodbye to our friends and families, but it also feels like many years have passed at the same time.
Some of my classes this semester focused a lot on arguments about defining journalism - but these same arguments are applicable to other areas of life, and the general ways we identify ourselves. If there's one thing I've learned this year, it's that identity is always shifting, and we are never the same exact people we were even a year ago.
Moving to Melbourne has given us both a chance to re-evaluate our identities. When we first arrived in Australia, we were newlyweds and excited expats, eager for the chance to start our marriage with an overseas adventure.
One year later, our identities have shifted a little - we're now world travellers, partners, in our early 30's (well, one of us). Ben is now very familiar with traveling throughout Victoria and New South Wales, having spent six months on the road working in various small towns - and has now transitioned to working in a downtown high-rise office only a few blocks away from my University. I am now a graduate student and a marathoner, two things I hadn't even dreamed of becoming when we left the States.
We still miss our families and friends dearly, and it hasn't been easy getting settled here. But it's been an incredible journey so far, and we've done so much more than we ever imagined we would.
Here are some of our favourite memories and travels from our first year in Australia:
There are still many places we'd like to see while we're here, and a few more goals to accomplish yet. We're not sure what the second year of our Australian life will have in store for us - but if it's anything like our first year, we're definitely looking forward to it.
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