I have a work and holiday visa in AU until July 30. I was supposed to go last September when I was leaving S. Korea, but I backed out. I had my flight booked and my Aussie friend was gonna pick me up in Sydney. But now I'm thinking of going back, money is the only issue but Seal told me he went and was broke af and saved over 10k. Ideally I'd like to have a job before going but it's hard to do that. I'm just about to YOLO and book a flight but I'm having all these health issues. I have to have surgery in July. This isn't an emergency surgery but I had a very bad deviative septum. I'm also waiting to hear back from a Planned Parenthood fellowship.
I know the "safe" thing to do is to go to MN, but I also don't have funding for this semester because I applied so late and next year I would have it automatically. But shyannemystik is only two hours away and career wise this is probably wise, but I really want to get my MA in Gender Studies in Canada or NZ. But I'm also young and have my whole life to go back to school. If I went to Canada in 2018, it's a one year program where as in the US it's two years so I would be graduating around the same time. And I may even go to levonini's uni ;)
But sadly Andy (seal) told me there's no hell he would meet and he would hide if he saw me in person LOL because of social anxiety. Though I'm really thinking of going to Melbourne aka the hipster capital of AU. But I have professional contacts in Sydney, love the beach and the weather, and have friends in NSW but Melbourne would be a great change the weather is just shit.
Also I could go after July 30, I would just have to pay the visa fee which is like $370 USD but I would probably have my surgery before then. I just prob have sleep apnea so that's again another issue. I could work a couple months then reapply but I already paid that visa fee a year ago.
At the same time I could go to MN in August and go abroad after grad school. I just thought it'd be easier to go to grad school in NZ and Canada so I could get a job afterwards because I don't want to work in America. I want my career to be in either Canada or NZ or maybe even the UK.
LMAO vansreborn the UK isn't really where I wanna end up anyways. I'm not a big fan of dreary weather. Although I would love to live in Singapore, Taiwan, and a lot of places in Asia too.
Also my tuition in MN is only $2,500 for the semester and I only have classes MW so I can pretty much work every other day. My main worry is its kinda rural the city I'm moving to and my cohort everyone is from WI or MN, so idk if I'll fit in. It's a pretty white and not diverse area. But my friend who's doing her PhD at IU told me that I'm going for the school and not the city. She said grad school is different as I'm not there to make friends. But the reason I transferred from Knox was because I hated living in the rural Midwest but this isn't really nearly as rural. It's a college party town.
If I wait a year I could get into a much better school. I only applied to one. And in Canada I would be graduating the same year. I still would go to grad school just not in August. I could go in February in NZ
