Well it's now official. I have just arrived in Adelaide and have moved into the smallest bedroom in my birth-mother's 2 bedroom unit in South Australia, about 500m from the sea. My life is about to change completely, again, upsidedown, 180 degrees. I have approx half of my wordly possessions in bags, the rest being in various states of transit, nothing unpacked, nowhere to put it all and fuck all money. I have to enrol on Monday, organise a mountain of stuff so that I can live 'relatively' stress free for the coming 10 months, try and find a job, speak to the bank, student services and credit card companies then actually start going to lectures on Wednesday (you're never too old to go back to university my friends!) This will be a bit of a challenge being there and being 34 while still looking and on the odd occasion, acting like I'm 19. I have also just finished a wee tour of some old and now not so distant friends in Korea, Sydney and Melbourne and I am about to start the process of making some new ones. I am looking forward to getting back to Aikido and training for my next marathon race. The weather is good again and the people don't stare nearly as much as they did all over SE Asia. I think my next trip will be Easter Island but before that a wee visit 'home' to bonnie Scotland sometime around this time next year. I am tired but replenished, confused but clear, excited but a little scared, happy, happy, happy. One of my friends from Japan told me today that I taught him how to live. That's one of the best compliments I've ever had in my whole life because I know it came from the bottom of his heart. Live don't just exist.