Lets try that again...

I started writing about my travels over the years and did go off on an obscure tangent. Such that I thought it would be in everybody's best interest that the post never sees the light of day.

Take two...

For the first 16 years of my life I had lived in the same town, interacted with the same people protected by the small bubble I called home. As far as my swimming or school had taken me I always had someone from home by my side, I never thought about it until I was on my own. I attended my first first five years of high school, 7-11, at Maclean High School on the north coast of New South Wales. Then I made a devastating decision, I had made the choice to move to a Brisbane based boarding school in my senior year to peruse my foolish sporting dreams.

Why now?? I was offered several scholarships to the same schools in year 9. No thought to it I declined, I loved it at home and I wasn't going to give it up for anything. I kept in touch with one coach for a number of years and heard the school had spent in excess of $20m on new sporting facilities. By this time I had become a lot more serious about my sport. During school holidays I made a trip up to train for a week at the new pool, I must say I was very impressed and could see the benefits to my swimming. At this time I was not thinking of the social or scholastic suffering, this would soon be made clear.

I made the shift to Brisbane, I hated it. I will leave it at that. I was glad that 2011 had ended and 2012 was to begin. I had finished my schooling career, I decided to delay my meeting with reality for a few years and fix my mistakes made in the past year. I will be going to King's College at the University of Queensland in mid february.

Me, Myself and Michal

A start would be the five w's! Who? What? When? Where Why? Or whichever order suits your fancy. I don't have a particular style, I will mix and match from all over the place checking out what I like and what works best. So please don't scrutinise my inconsistencies!
I will start with where i'm at now and let my ramblings take me to me to my end.
This is my opinion feel free to question.
 To describe my nature would take much more than words alone.
My name is Dylan Brown. I am 17 years of age. My birthday resides in the near land of February. I was born into and have lived in a house next to a lake in the hamlet Wooloweyah (NSW).

I am a strange boy, I know not how to describe myself. I am no one, I am not special, I am different, this I know and has always been so. I am just another plain face to a crowd (with my hair ablaze). To the passer by I would be as dry as a family reunion, underneath I think there is a lot that i still have to learn. Through this blog I hope to reflect and find more of myself, sorry if you don't want to hear any of this. I think I have to realise this now, i'm not doing myself any favours by being selfish. When I move to college I want to change my attitude toward people and myself, I am not happy with the person I am. 

Last year I made possibly the worst or best decision of my life.

I am beginning a new life at The University of Queensland! I am excited about this, it is my first real opportunity to start anew. I have made many mistakes along my short life and am loving the thought that I could change it all! Not the person I am, that would be too hard for the little satisfaction I would get. But the way that I interact with people, I have a lot of people that do not like me. I don't know what I have done to achieve this relationship with them, no matter how hard I try to make amend with them nothing seems to prosper! With a new group of people I think that I can make a better life for myself with no prior knowledge.

More photos!

Although I am a very busy boy I don't seem to do a lot! When I think about it I must be wasting lot of time. I don't do much in terms of sport, I swim, that's it! I don't participate in any social sports (as much as I would like to). But I would say that I am a very active individual, I do walk, run and ride everywhere (until I got my P's xD). Everything is competition to me, yes I am that kid that thinks PE is the Olympics. Hate me now! Whether it is food, school, sport or even height. Maybe this is why people hate me? I have to stop becoming so jealous though. I know I cannot be perfect, I am far from it, but i still want and try to be! Unrealistic as it is that is me. It gets me down a fair bit and i have deal with it.


Just had a metal blank, what I was doing I have no idea! Train of thought didn't crash, it went Harry Potter on me and flew away.

Watch this space.

nworbnalyd

Just havin' a go.

Test

I have recently seen blogs posted by friends of mine. I don't understand what they achieve or what they are designed for, I would like to find out! I have some idea what I could do, this idea isn't appealing to me but I have different motives. I would like to become more literate, I am a terrible reader and writer. At a young age I was an avid reader and reading above my age, I don't know what happened but in year four I suddenly lost interest in the need to read.

I will try to use 'blogging' as a tool to encourage myself to write and read regularly, exposing myself to intelligent works fabricated from friends with lives much more interesting than my own. Honestly I haven't read too many books in the past few years. I love to read but have trouble finding the motivation to keep going, I will pick a book up and put it back down after reading the first few chapters. Not due to lack of interest, but something strange in my own mind.

I need pictures to keep me interested :/

I'm not really sure what the content of a blog details. It could be used for different reasons; news, diaries, opinions etc.. I don't expect anyone to read these posts, I am purely writing to improve my degenerate skill. In saying that I will try to produce something interesting, something that I can look back on years later and be compelled to read. Unfortunately i've been pretty bland for years, hopefully I can change, otherwise it will be a tough exercise reading through post I will pile up.

What I will most likely write about is what I do every day infused with some opinions, trends, yarns and ramblings. Otherwise I wouldn't give myself a chance of writing anywhere near the quantity that I need to improve the quality of my 'works'. If know me and read this you will find that i'm not very creative, I hope in time to become more inventive for my own satisfaction and entertainment.

I think I have gone on too long, whether this opinion of length and attentiveness will change as my production increases I don't know. Sorry if I have bored you, I do that a lot.

Catcha,

Dylan