So the reason for this awkward, and probably unnecessary title, is to explain myself. My first blog, which I began in 2010, was a way for me to communicate and comment on my day to day life going through high school. This platform was then found and recognised by quite a few (thousand) people and became less and less of a private platform for me to write on. So, the introduction of UnorthodoxSimplicity, a blog where I will be more personal, a blog where I will talk about my day to day struggles from high school student (living at home with my parents) to moving to the city, for university and becoming an adult (ah, scary right!)

Here goes:

I was born on August 4th, 1997 in Queensland, Australia (ugh, how cliche of a beginning). I grew up in a normal (what do we even classify as 'normal' anymore?) environment being the only child (which I believe is one of the many reasons for my introvert-ness) to my two hilarious parents with whom I love dearly. I did normal toddler/kid things like kindergarten and pre-school, which was I think, my parents way of teaching my things I should have learnt with siblings like how to share my toys (which, p.s., I wasn't very good at). I went to a private Catholic primary school, about 5 minutes walk from my house, from Pre-School until Grade 7. I guess you could say I was that nerdy, quite kid (you know the kid that just reads everything and doesn't really socialise outside their clique?) up until about grade 5 or 6 when I began to hang out with a crowd that was very loud and outspoken and that's how I became the weird, nerdy, loud and outspoken yet introverted person that I am today. From grade 3 until grade 11 I had one dream, and one dream only; and that was to become a lawyer. It was up until I moved high schools at the beginning of grade 11 where I became more and more interested with English Literature and decided that what I really wanted to do was secondary English teaching.

Less about the shallow crap in my life, in grade 6 I started to discover elements of OCD in my personality in which I still suffer with and although I make hundreds of OCD jokes everyday it affects my in a much more serious way as I crave perfection, but only in certain things. For example, I leave all assignments and exam studying until the very, very last minute yet I crave perfection of results (results I obviously don't receive). The only perfection I stick to is cleanliness, everything in my room, study area, car etc. has a certain place and must always return to that place after being used; this is same with a classroom, it must be left the exact way in which I entered it and because I can never achieve this it just annoys me but no one truly understands.

So the reason for my abrupt change in career decision were a few reasons. The first being an amazing and wonderful English teacher who, seriously, is the best teacher I've ever come across in my twelve years of schooling. There are absolutely no words to describe how incredible, selfless and truly inspiration this woman is! And unless you've had her as a teacher before you just could not understand. The second is, again a person I have come across since moving schools, and that is my best friend Sasha. I don't think Sasha truly understands how much of an impact she has had on my life and how she has changed me for the better and has inspired me to go for my dreams and to be true to myself no matter what other people think or say about me.