Splashing In Puddles of Sand

Alien Male Seaweed and Will

It's been a long time since I have last written and I am sorry about that.

Right now I should be in Melbourne enjoying the Commonwealth games which happened to co-incide with the dates I booked. Instead I am sitting in Arthur's Pass, aka middle of the mountains in New Zealand still! Ohh life is so unpredictable!

Sitting in Te Anau I was feeling quite pissed off--hung over, tired, cold, wet, grumpy....and this English guy got talking to me. We discussed how shit our hostel was and decided to go take a drive around the town since it was pouring rain. So we took a drive around, ended up in the pub, had a few drinks, and he convinced me to change my flights and join him! It was so crazy and random that I somehow knew it was right. I had just found out that the U2 concert was cancelled, so I had no rush to get to australia...and I dont know how he did it, i just knew it was right! So the next day I went kayaking in Milford sound, he drove 5 hours return to queenstown to get my backpack that I left there cuz I had only been planning on spending a night in te anau, and we met back at the hostel and the next morning went to stewart island!

Everything since has just been a whirlwind of experiences...it's strange travelling with someone after being alone for so long...and not just anyone. I dont know what Will is to me...he's my friend, my lover, my temporary boyfriend...I dont really know how I will feel when I leave in 3 days because we have literally spend 24 hours a day with one another for the past week. We have been in really remote places and hostels...on Stewart Island, the Catlins, and random places like arthur's pass. We havent really talked to anyone else other than one another and we are getting on amazingly! I havent once regretted changing my plans to travel with him, havent once wanted to be on my own. Even the bad times with him have been good. But spending so much time with him makes it hard to know how I feel about him. We've turned into such a couple and its so strange because it's only been a week but it feels like forever...

Anyway, so I leave in 3 days, he leaves in a week to MOVE to Hong Kong and we'll move on without each other. It will be interesting to see how I feel about that when the time comes.

So needless to say life is incredible. I wouldn't say I'm in love with Will because there hasn't been enough time for that. I'm certainly not. I am just fascinated by our relationship, by our interaction. I dont know many people who can put up with me 24 hours a day for over a week without getting a break from me or wanting to kill me...and this stranger stumbles into my life and he can!

What's most amazing is I was having a bad day when I met him...and I wrote in my journal about how I needed something amazing to happen, I needed something to pick me up.....

...four hours later I met someone who'll stay with me for life :)

You never do know what's around the corner.......

posted by Oreo @ 1:35 AM