Sunday, November 30, 2008

I'm going to live in Samoa for twelve months!

I'm very excited! I just found out I'm going to live and work in Samoa for twelve months next year as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development. I can't believe I got chosen to go.



I'll be a Library Management Officer at the National University of Samoa library.

I can't wait to live overseas again (I lived in London for six months when I was 21).



The timing is ideal. I can leave my Brunswick share house pretty easily and store my stuff with my folks; I'm recently single, which does make it a lot easier to leave Melbourne; I've just finished my masters; and I haven't found a really plum, permanent librarian job here yet.

I actually applied for Samoa the day before I was dumped out of the blue by my boyfriend-of-a-year. I don't know if I believe in fate, but it feels like there's an element of it here.



So look out for Better than Cheesecake becoming a travel blog from March next year!

21 comments:

yublocka said...

That is cooler than cool! Congratulations!!!!

Enny said...

How exciting!
Congratulations!!!

How's that for timing?! :o)

TLC said...

Amazing news. The world really is your oyster x

Susanne said...

Yublocka - I know!! Thankyou.

Enny - Thanks, yeah, it's worked out perfectly.

TLC- Thanks miss. I'm really stoked about it all.

harps the haiku librarian said...

What an opportunity to learn some new dances!

Susanne said...

Harps- I'm going to miss swing dancing! As far as I know there's no 'scene' over there. Learning the folk dances could be fun though!

Andrew said...

Please do send stories about your life in the pacific... I'd be keen to hear them. :)

Susanne said...

Thanks Andrew, I will. Although if it's anything like Katie's experience, I'll be sending the stories by morse code or telegraph or something. :)

Little Willow said...

What an honor! Congrats!

Susanne said...

Thankyou kindly. It's getting pretty close now... seven weeks and counting!

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Qatar Cat said...

This is wonderful, I am sure you will enjoy it! Post tons of pics!

:)

Susanne said...

Thanks miss! I'm doing my training for the program in Canberra at the moment. It's becoming a lot more real now...

Alice Keates said...

I'm soo jealous. You're off on exciting travels and you get to be a librarian. I love libraries! Publishing is so much less about books than librarianism...

Susanne said...

Thanks Alice! I'd like it if librarianship was more about books actually. A lot of it is more about IT, cataloguing, customer service, etc.

Goji said...

Congratulations!!!

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