Christina Gill
Tina International
Christina Gill
A fashion designer for 7 years and it's all I've ever done - I love my job, I really do... I get to draw T-shirts for a living (though it's far more complicated and stressful than that!) I see people wearing my stuff on the street, I get to travel to amazing places round the world - hell I get paid to go shopping in LA twice a year...and that's just one of the 8 places I visited with work last year... But that's just it... It's work... And as much as it's satisfied my appetite for travel a little while, there's still this desire.. This NEED to see the world... Go travelling.. Like PROPER travelling!...
I'm 30 next year and I've been thinking about doing this for 10 whole years. I should have done it 10 whole years ago too but I didn't... And now seems as good a time as any to just go!...
So I'm ditching the heels, the make-up & the hair straighteners, trading in the 5 star hotels & business class flights for hostels & cattle class, squeezing 8 months worth of clothes into one bag (!!!! How is that even possible???) and I'm doing it!... I'm going! And yes I'm nervous - shitting it in fact! But I don't know if you ever saw the film "Up"? Where it's this couple's lifelong dream to visit Angel Falls and they save their whole life and then the woman dies at the age of about 90 having never done it... Well I don't want to be that old woman goddammit!!
And yes I'm scared of EVERYTHING...Petrified of heights, snakes, big waves (even small waves), foxes, ants, the baddies in Superman...you name it, I'll run a mile but no matter how tough the road ahead and the many challenges I have to face, no matter what grotty hostel I find myself in, in need of a long hot bath, no matter how bad my roots get and chipped are my nails, no matter how homesick I am and long for a nice cuppa Yorkshire Tea and a Bourbon biscuit...for the next 8 months - this is Tina International...on her way, living the dream and not looking back!...