A Beginning.

This is a blog, just another outlet for my thoughts and a small recount of my life, as a reader you can expect an insight into life from a different perspective. My perspective. A little background is needed before I begin, before you begin, creating an insight into the life of a complete stranger. I won't be too forthcoming with where and who I am, but I'm sure in this day and age finding my information is no longer a difficult task. But don't take it as a challenge. With all that being said, I was born in 1998, Australia. Instead of thinking of me as a nameless 18 year old, know me as Josh.With that out of the way, lets create some context about my life.

Most people would be quirky and begin with a casual "There's so much to tell, I don't know where to begin!" But I'm simple and will start where it's logical. As I've already written I reside in Australia, but that was not always the case. Fast-forward 11 months into my life and you'd find a baby taking his first aeroplane flight, to the eastern lands of China. Beijing to be exact. My humble beginning may not be as conventional as you would think. The first 5 years of my life began as an immigrant to another country, surrounded by foreign language speakers without a clue in the world that I was the odd one out. As an Australian, an unusual yet common question I seem to attract is "Are you American?" or "What's that accent I can hear?". For the answer we can delve back into my foreign upbringing. Like all children, there was a necessity for me to learn and go get some form of childcare education. So like all responsible parents, mine found a small international school, where english was the main taught language. Coming to the answer of the seemingly never ending questions as to where my accent originated, despite being born in Australia. The answer being that the only schools in Beijing that taught english were American based. A seemingly mundane answer to a personally insurmountable question.

Now onto the next phase of my life. By 5 years old my family relocated back to Australia. This move was by no choice of our own. The company that had so eagerly moved my family to China, had now decided my parents role had been fulfilled. Relocating our family unit back to Australian soil with equal enthusiasm. By now the time had come for me to prepare for primary school, I won't go into detail but those particular 6 years of my life were spent satisfying my idol curiosity with friends and coming to terms that homework would somehow benefit my future. I guess it did?

Closer now we creep towards my present self...

High-school hit me like a brick wall with wet cement, originally it was hard but came tumbling down on top of me. The first year, year 7, was a taste of reality where puberty was the cornerstone of conversation and good grades were hard to come by. It took about 2 years before I escaped that slump, but once it passed the age of awkward relationships and awakening hormones had begun. There's no need to be specific; but that period lasted on and off until the final year of my high-schooling. Now this year was a wake up call to the bigger picture, it prepared me as well as it could have for whats to come, and I'm glad I put the time and effort into it. I would say this was the year that I solidified my life-long friends. That was last year. 2016.

So thats the extreme summary of my life, the bare essentials as you will. As of now I'm a proud university student, specifically studying the Bachelor of Journalism & Business. I'll admit, the first few months were daunting and I questioned how others stayed sane, the workload evolved from a quiet whimper to a violent roar, directly in the face of this high-school graduate. But as time wore the work and myself down, I began to handle the situation a lot better. That was my first semester. As I write this I'm in my third week of my second semester that, if I pass, will see me survive my first university year.

I guess it's safe to assume that this blog will be my personal safe-haven. My thoughts and my life will be on here for me to remember and for you, the reader, to experience. Be it an accident you found my page or just that curiosity got the better of you. Please enjoy this chance to see life as somebody else.

Well by now if you're still reading, congratulations, this is the first step in beginning a life journey through someone else's eyes. Like a good blogger I'll mention that there is a lot more to come, I plan on posting my photography so that you, the humble reader can see through my eyes as well as read about the casual existential dread that comes along with having your whole life ahead of you.

A word from the writer.

Josh.

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