swear im gonna do it

SAVINGS SO FAR: $20,100/$20,000👀

China

ASIA KINDA BASED?????

Hit 20k 😎😎😎😎 so sooo sexy of me. now to spend it all before I leave because holy shit I need to get all my stuff akdjjdjf

will buy my backpack tomorrow, I've gotten a blood test done so I can get all my shots - there's like 7 of them lmfao and I thought I'd left it to last min but the doc was so relieved when he heard my leave date cos apparently a lot of people rock up a day before their trip to get their shots??? crazy. made me feel like a Good Adult aksjdjjdjd

holy shit then I have to have fucking surgery because I finally decided to get my pussy looked at and yah tmi I need a cyst removal. so I NEED to book that for like. this week jajajajjaa although maybe I should have it closest to when I fly back to Adelaide so I don't miss too much work :/

i thort I'd hit 20k this month but I'm so bad at math that I ended up owing tax back. also cos the government hates to see a girlboss winning. so I didn't get any chunks and will have to do with my crumbs.

fuck my habits ill sink or swim. I've been waking a shit ton and eating better kinda so I do feel physically ready. mentally tho ajahhahaha ahaaaaaa haha. ha. I'll be fine. I'll literally figure it out!!! I'll be fine. most of my fear and anxiety are gone tbh now it's just the worry. I'm worried about feeling lonely mostly. I'm not lonely usually I love my own company I'm a blast. but I'm worried about the barriers I keep up around me y'know. I really wanna experience everything deeply. but it's so embarrassing akskksls

will hit 20k probably by the end of the month maybe. oh god then I gotta watch it disappear because I still have to buy a better backpack and anything I need and get my shots and vaccines and buy insurance and actually talk to someone about what to do for a Chinese visa and ohhhhh my goddd

oh lmfao and I have to pack up my shit?? my roommates gf moves in when I leave so theoretically it has to be a fucking. empty room by then jesus lord help your child

I have no choice now KAJDJDJSJS I'm DOING IT. 5th of Jan 6:25am baybee!!! one way baybee!! landing in Bali at 9:15!! I knew the flight would be cheap flying from Australia (when u hit Darwin they make you get out and swim lmfao) but I got it for 380 bucks! super happy with that! will be flying from Melb to Adelaide on Dec 20 to have Christmas with family and say goodbye, then flying out of Adelaide. probably could've gotten it cheaper from Melbourne but I wanted to see my family off.

really digging into my planning. starting to compile hostels and stops I def want to do. I think I definitely want to get my PADI license in Malaysia or Thailand. every source has told me it'll be $500, but in most places that includes your accommodation and meals so I do want to splurge on that.

I also want to do a Muay Thai camp in Thailand! I absolutely love boxing and MMA so I love the idea of staying in one of the camps for a few weeks! I think the cost is around 250 for a 2 week stay which again includes a room and meals. there are months long options as well 😳 I wanna get so buff

also sorting my workaways. I definitely want 2 in Indonesia, one is on a village fruit farm in West Java and the other one is another farm in South Sumatra. they both have lots of reviews so I think they're safe options for my first time using it :3

further on is cleaning up beaches in Langkawi Island in Malaysia.

After that it's mostly hostel work. there's a lot of paid positions available in Japan and the working holiday visa doesn't seem too complex to get. only I'll have to have a detailed plan on my Japan travels and can only apply from Australia 😬 so I'll have to apply now and have a bulletproof itinerary for like 10 months from now and I don't even know when exactly I'll arrive! it's a big pickle. you can't even volunteer in Japan without a working visa so even if I don't want to make money, just saving money by working/volunteering for board isn't doable, which is how I was planning to be able to travel Japan without blowing a heap of money 😬😬 will check it out further and ask around.

My Bali, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam itineraries are shaping up. once I train into China though things get pretty rough. and after Japan it's basically up in the air. I plan to fly from Tokyo to Kathmandu, Nepal and do a tea farm workaway. Then India, which I'm super excited but intimidated by and I have no idea what route I'll take aha. Would still love to then do Pakistan, Jordan and Turkey but I'll see how much time/money I have by then. will end in Austria to see my best mate. Might spend Christmas with them 😳

savings are going really well and tax season is here so I'll hopefully get a big chunk back!! so will definitely hit 20 grand by Oct, maybe even sooner! I'm currently at $16500 so even if I get only half my tax back it'll push me to $19,000! I'm so relieved that it's in my sights. after I hit 20grand then the rest of the money I save is just fun money 💪 the Ultimate Goal is still around $25,000 and that's looking more and more doable 😊 that means I can relax much more on the trip and splurge every now and then for things like theme parks, rafting, a nice hotel every now and then and possibly scuba diving 😯 I also wanna bungee jump and sky dive at some point ajdjjrdjjdjd Give Me Adrenaline

I've stopped drinking caffinee and the next step is to stop vaping. would love to get my addictions down to maybe a bowl of weed on the weekends.

goddamn depression is beating my ass. but officially halfway through!! work has been soul crushing but it's still fine. I can do this for a other 6 months.

gonna do what I usually do every year and fly back to Adelaide on the 20th of Dec so I can be there for my mum's bday and Christmas and all that. with hopefully flying out on the 5th of Jan it also gives me a good 2 weeks to say goodbye to everyone and iron out the last deets with my mum cos she's smart and has travelled heaps in her life.

SAVINGS SO FAR: $12,500/$7,500

planning to have $13,000 by the end of the week. hoping to have $15,000 by mid July. so still on track to break 20 grand by Oct which will feel super super nice.

I'm a broken record at this point but not great work on habit building. I need to stop thinking that I have to immediately change everything at once. I gotta focus on one habit at a time. so I'm gonna really focus on walking every day. just wake up don't think about it just put on clothes and get out.

in the meantime I'm gonna be buying frozen quick meals just to stop the ubereats. my body is so used to just eating absolute garbage it's all I crave tbh. so slowly changing that.

but yeah uhh. very depressed lately. haven't been able to feel enthused about my trip in a while. because I know this trip will also be super stressful and hard. just gotta put on tourist glasses and trick myself into being like omg in 6months I'll be drinking coconuts on the beach.....and not uh. skimping money on cheap hostels and figuring out transport every couple days. but both are true!! glad I'm starting in Indonesia because for the first month of the trip it is going to be a full vacay hunee. I WILL be drinking coconuts on the beach.

so I'm recalculating from India onwards. cutting all of Europe already makes me feel so much better ahaha, I love Asia so much and I want to spend heaps of time there.

im gonna try and incorporate the Stans for the second half of my trip. they are gorgeous and I think I'll get my dessert fill with them. maybe go up to the Stans after Pakistan and then fly to Jordan or maybe even Iran?

SAVINGS: $9000/$11,000

doing well with savings, hoping to break 10grand by the end of the month!! don't think it's gonna feel as good as I thought aha! def will only feel good about my savings when I hit the 15-20k mark. still hoping for 12.5k by end of June :3

I need to start walking everyday. only it's winter so it's either get up super early when it's dark and freezing or wait until after work when it's dark and freezing. but I'll be more tired and it'll be busier in the evening so maybe I should suck it up and start my days with pitch black beach walk akdjdjdjfj

also it's embarrassing but I literally have to learn how to cook. I've been approaching it all wrong, I see that now. I need to do it meal by meal. I'm gonna make pumpkin soup on Sunday 😺

also have to stop smoking weed and vapes.

i posted my trip plans to reddit and got so much feedback and advice! and I'm proud that it's mostly stuff I've already thought hard about and considered! small stuff like shipping souvenirs home, buying Europe gear on the way and packing pretty light. going to start researching backpacks and asking around :)

also that I'm probably stuffing too much into one trip especially Europe wise. I feel dumb saying it but I'm honestly not that into a lot of Europe? so yeah why am I....doin all That. slowly working through the countries I def want to check out and scrapping the rest. I'm mostly interested in the southern Mediterranean countries :) and also seeing my friend in Austria cos I haven't seen them in years 😩

will deposit the money when I finally get my stupid paycheck but SAVINGS SO FAR: $8,000/$12,000

still hoping to have $12,500 by the end of June which puts me halfway to $25,000 which is closer to the ultimate goal of 28-30 grand. I'm thinking now I won't feel good about my savings until I literally reach the 20grand mark aha but that's still ways off. if I reach 20k by Oct that would be awesome 👌

now that it's nearing the halfway mark I'm getting more serious about my habit goals. my sleep is still really good, I'm going to bed around 9-10pm every night and getting up around 7-8am.

slacking on my Indonesian but I'll pick that up again this week

still haven't done much art or set up my art tablet.

I've started walking more and am looking at boxing gyms around my workplace to possibly go to because I really need to get fitter

also decided I probably need to stop smoking weed entirely. I'm only doing it for the habit and ritual of it at this point and also because my friend/roommate smokes the same amount as me so it's constantly available. but it just makes me tired and sad. so I wanna stop that. next would be to start not taking my vape to work and bed to try and cut back on that as well.

FINALLY stopped ordering ubereats every day but I'm such a bad fucking cook. HOW do I fuck up so badly every time. it's so hard to me fml

now that it's almost halfway I can start thinking more about my Get list! I gotta finally renew my stupid license and now that it's winter I can start looking for deals for summer clothes for asia.

that being said I have continued to do this shit and will continue to do so

easter week is over and school holidays have started so hopefully a really chill week. only they have me on early in the mornings 😭 I miss my 12:30 start where she at 😭

doing well with savings: 7,000/13000

hoping to get close to 10,000 at the end of the month? that would but me halfway there 2 months early and would finally feel Real. especially because the longer the year goes on and I plan, the more I think I really need more than 20,000, closer to 30,000 to really feel safe. 30 is ultimate, 25 is perfectly comfy.

I'm also planning for at least three workaways and some of the favs I've found are: a durian farm in West Java, cleaning beaches in Langkawi, maybe one in Cambodia, a party hostel in South Korea and hopefully a family stay in Japan. I also am definitely doing a week volunteering at an elephant sanctuary in Thailand but I'll be paying $500 to do that so it doesn't really count as a period where I can expect to not pay for board/meals.

BUDGET for se Asia is starting at $20-$30 (AUD) a day for around $800 a month. this will hopefully give me a little extra money for things like island hopping in the Philippines, bungee jumping and some theme parks (you KNOW a bitch loves a theme park). this budget will have to be pushed higher for Korea and especially Japan, which is why I want most of my time there to be workaways and also be more brief, maybe 2 weeks in both :)

I'll only be in middle east for about a month; 1 week in Pakistan, 1 week in Jordan and maybe 1 week in Lebanon and 1-2 weeks in Turkey with a couple days in Cyprus snuck in there. I really want a workaway in Pakistan, I've found one family in North Pakistan that would be amazing as staying in family home in Pakistan is on my bucket list aha.

I have all of Jordan planned out: few days in Amman, hire a car and drive to the Dead Sea for 1 night, drive to Wadi Rum for 1-2 nights and visit Petra for 1-2 days.

then I want to workaway in Lebanon. I thought about maybe doing one that helps refugees in the Syrian border but I feel like that'd be uhhhhh a kind of weird move idk I'll only be there for a week and I know nothing about humanitarian refugee projects, I feel like I'd be a hindrance and not there for the right reasons, so I'm going to do an eco hostel one :)

for Europe budget is much tricker, and my standard will be $50-$60 (AUD) a day for a monthly budget of $1100. HOPEFULLY I will be extremely conservative up until then so I'm not literally begging for food over there aha.