New job title: Trainee Travel Writer!

Decision made! I have now signed up to a twelve week course to become a Travel Writer! This is so exciting, I already want to sign up to the Travel Photography course too! Let's face it the two go hand in hand so it is easy to justify doing both right...?

I have also had my feedback from my second assignment and I passed with flying colours! Yay! The only section I 'just achieved' on was to do with my references which I knew would happen as I wasn't sure about one of my references when I submitted it. I am over the moon! This means I should do really well on my final EMA and will hopefully get a distinction for the whole module :) yay go me!

So, now to the Arts section which I cannot wait for. We are going to London soon so I can use it as an excuse to finally go to the Damian Hirst exhibition which is going to be unbelievable. I can't wait! I am hoping I do well with the Arts section, this is the section I am most looking forwards to and it will be just typical that I am rubbish at it.

We are also getting organised now for travelling. Applying for visas, travel insurance, passports and getting very painful injections... in both arms I might add... at the same time...ouch!

Dean has also decided he wants to be a football coach and has just enrolled on a course to gain his level 1 qualification. This is great news as it means we now both have a good idea of our future careers and should be able to apply these skills in Australia.

I am now going to challenge myself to research as my travel articles as possible to get a good idea of what I need to include in my writing style. I am also hoping to get a new phone asap so I can upload more photos to my posts.

Happy Saturday!
Stace

Travel Writing - New career?

Wahooooo!!! I have found a new wonderfully exciting career.....Travel Writing!!

I thought I would take a look at it as I will be keeping a journal whilst we travel so would be a good idea to see if I could utilise this is any way. I had no idea how easy it could be to have a travel writing career. I found an amazing website partnered by the National Geographic Travel magazine which provides online 12 week courses. Not only does it provide connections to paid travel work but will also improve my own fiction writing, so either way the course will be beneficial.

Myself and dean talked in depth last night about the reality of me studying a 60 credit course whilst we are travelling in September and we both agreed it isn't very realistic at all. I had to accept that my studies would have to be postponed until we came back to the UK, which of course would mean I would have to pay the higher fees.

Now I have found a new way to feed my writing ambition whilst at the same time develop my career towards something much more creative and interesting. I am so excited!

Now can you see why my blog is called indecisive ambition......the career plan changes every month!

Website: http://www.matadoru.com/

Travel Plans

Family.......you can't pick them unfortunately. My bank holiday was full of drama and chaos, I already feel like I need some time off just to get over it! I was also working Saturday and Monday which was rubbish and also completely pointless as I had nothing to do. Unfortunately working in customer services means rotating shifts and this week I am working 2pm to 10pm - nice. So I don't really have any exciting tales about my weekend unfortunately.
I don't think I have gone in to much detail about my travelling plans yet have I? Well, as of September this year I will be leaving the UK on an open ticket to THE WORLD :). Plans are to start in Japan then go to China, Hong Kong, Thailand, maybe Singapore and then Australia. After that, who knows! I am so excited about this trip, I will actually be visiting this place aka paradise:

I have been wanting to go travelling for a long time but never had the courage until my boyfriend suggested it. This is the perfect time in my career to go so I couldn't refuse, my only concern is it is going to be difficult completing my degree whilst I am out there. We were originally intending on going for 2 years or maybe go for residency in Australia but have now agreed to be open minded about it all as we may both want to come back after a year really. We are living separately at the moment which is a nightmare. Being a young and fairly new couple we are desperate to live together and set up our own home but know we have to be patient and wait until we have been travelling. It will all be worth it in the end!

Role on September!

 :) Stace

Trip to Scotland and Assignment Feedback

Last week was an intensely busy week! Me and Dean went up to Scotland for a few days to escape and really indulge in each other - and indulge we did...
We saw some beautiful landscapes - Loch Tay, Falls of Dochart and the Acharn Waterfall. It was a wonderful trip with some gorgeous food too and we had a really relaxing time. Hopefully pictures will be up soon but typically I am having to wait for Dean to upload them as we used his camera.In the mean time, here is a photograph of Loch Tay borrowed from here http://draw-nigh.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/t-f-torrance-retreat.html, strangely another blog with exactly the same layout! (Great minds think a like...)

I also submitted my first assignment (woop) and received some great feedback (double woop)! Surprisingly I actually managed to convince my tutor that I knew what I was talking about with poetry analysis and the main feedback was actually about my writing style and format. I am pleased because this is something I can easily work on, I haven't actually written an essay in about 5 or 6 years so I am allowed to be a little rusty. Unfortunately the OU came back to me and advised that they do not advise studying whilst travelling and it may hinder me with being successful at the course. This however does not mean I am writing the idea off! I am still going to keep it in mind until towards the end of my module when I will have a better understanding of my abilities with distance learning.

Now that I am back I will be able to post more frequently - yay :)