No body reading this knows me! I could be anybody really... a pop star in a secret identity, a nanny mcphee person, a complete tool with no life. I could be all those things, but im not. I'm just a girl from Cheshire.
Over the years, I have had severe confidence issues due to a huge amount of bullying because people thought i was ''emo'' I really don't believe in that word, or chav, loner, non of the labels. I was okay at first, I had a friend, but when I was 13, I flew to New Zealand on a wonderful, life changing (in many ways) holiday! I did my very first bungy jump, that was fantastic! When i returned from New Zealand, my friend had deserted me and left to all the popular group, that's how it all started. To this day, although i let it slide, we still don't speak.
In 2013 I got an opportunity after I had finished uni to go to New Zealand to live for a few months, haha, a few months turned into a year! Little shy girl was off on her way out! I really came out of my shell over there. I made new friends and went of travelling, I lived with a range of different people, that was amazing, and scary to. I fed and elephant at a zoo, I stayed up all night on a beach and watch the sun rise in the morning with a selection of new friends. My best achievement was I managed to loose 4 and a half stone over there too!! I forced my self to get over my fear of water and started swimming 66 lengths most evenings. I get what your thinking, why would you spend your time swimming in a country you don't get to see most times... well I became an Au Pair to two wonderful children in Hamilton, I love them dearly, close to what i think its going to feel with my own children when i get around to that part!! I lived life there on the down low, I did go surfing out there though! That was interesting!
I then went on to travel right down the bottom of the south island and I stayed the last month of my time in New Zealand in Milford Sound! I truly think that I will never find another more beautiful place in this Earth, if I do, I'll be one lucky lady! I spent 4 hours a day cleaning bathrooms out! The rest of the time myself and my friend went out exploring! Walking up waterfalls, going under waterfalls, beach walks, glow worm hunting and of course many a piss-up in the local with my new lifetime friends!
New Zealand has really made me a better person, and so much more confident in myself. It was not all perfect I had to over come allot of things! When I left, I had to have my mother or dad or brother assist me to a neighbors because I was so scared of doing it myself, NOW , I can say I have traveled the entire world on the way! I ended up staying in a bad family, I learnt to put my foot down and say no im sorry but i cannot stay here, I had to have a biopsy operation on the back of my leg for suspected cancer, I ran low on money. Allsorts happened, but I over came it all and I loved it, I'm greatful for every moment I spent in this place.
Thank you New Zealand.
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