{"id":7512,"date":"2019-07-22T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mojosurf.com\/?p=7512"},"modified":"2023-05-17T00:04:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:04:37","slug":"i-quit-my-job-and-landed-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mojosurf.com\/i-quit-my-job-and-landed-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"I Quit My Job and Landed in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
The date forever etched in my mind 23rd August 2017, I was working for a PR Agency in London, dreaming of hot summer days and white sandy beaches. I searched google for the whitest sand in the World and the result Jervis Bay, Australia. Let\u2019s be honest I had no f**king idea where Jervis Bay was but the image of blue skies, waves and oceans was enough.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I had dinner with a couple of girlfriends before heading home, wherewith 10 seconds of courage and a few wines deep I pulled open my laptop and booked a flight to Sydney Australia. I mean why not, right?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Waking the next morning with an epic headache and a faint memory of doing something life changing the night before struck. Then check of my phone and boom I\u2019d emptied my savings to\u00a0 buy a ticket to Australia. I leave in 3 months and need to SAVE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Landing in Sydney as a solo traveller was the most exhilaratingly anxious, but most amazing experience of my life, (I\u2019d also broken up with the boyfriend, but that\u2019s another story).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n First stop Wake Up Hostel – I\u2019d booked in transit as I sat in Singapore airport for what felt like 20 hours, I think it was 12. I was happy to see a bed of any kind and a 4 bed dorm room did the job. I kicked the jetlag sideways.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then you could describe it as universal energies, one of travels best unknowns, that energy that puts people and experiences in your path that you just have to be open to and accept. This first happened to me in the reception area at Wake Up, some dude with long blonde hair and surf board under arm stopped me in my tracks – he worked for this tour company called Mojo, I was like Mo \u201cwhat\u201d me surf, hmmmm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n