Tomorrow = Heathrow to Frankfurt to Beijing to Nanchang to Taining!

TOMORROOOOOOW!!

I am definitely more scared than when I was leaving for France or Finland, I guess this is a much bigger deal for me. I am very glad I have had the experince of travelling abroad before though, even if it was just in Europe, I think its made me a bit more prepared for what is to come. I am still finishing packing and am once again worried that not everything will fit. So much for travelling light this time. I actually forgot to go get my last jab this morning oooops, but they called me and let me rush in a bit later. Then the nurse accidentally gave me an extra rabies jab, so I've ended up with 12 injections overall. Hopefully won't be having any more in a hurry!

I've said goodbye to everyone. we didn't have time for a barbeque but we did go out for a meal. It was great having my relatives here and my mum's party was great. It was very tiring in London everyday though and my fitness regime kind of went out the window when they were here but it was worth it. I saw my Hungarian friend Gygy in London the other day which was lovely. She came to visit a friend who is working there this year.

My first challenge will be the flight. It is sooo long and I have to flight transfers so fingers crossed I understand what to do. I am excited to meet everyone when I finally get there.

I actually don't have much to post, just wanted to report here before I leave. I am getting up early and my first flight leaves at 10.50. I'm getting there nice and early as there is a strike at Heathrow today so there might be a bit of a backlog tomorrow.

My next message will be from South East China, Fujian Province Eeeeeeeee!!
Fitness, please don't fail me now ...

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Returning home/preparing for China :D

Hello little blog,
I feel I have neglected you for a while as its been a couple of months since I last posted but I promise to update as best I can.

So my last few weeks in Finland went by quite quickly I spent Vappu with my cousin Ellu which was great, we went to hers and made some very impressive blackberry chots consisting of blackberry soup, blackberry liquer and whipped cream mmmm. We then went out to some bars and saw Anna and her fiance then went onto a club. Goood night and we went to the vappu market the next day too. I went back that same afternoon to Helsinki on the long train journey and spent 2 nights in Helsinki. I had time to see my Disney friend Elsi again for a bit which was nice as I saw her just as I had arrived and then just as I was leaving 4 months later :)

Back home it was a great feeling when it was warm! Although we had a few nice sunny days before I left and we did some gardening it did get cold again just as I was going. It was so nice to wear shorts and no scarf I swear my legs hadn't seen daylight since the new year :/ It was a very worthwhile experience for the language, the cooking, the whole winter xperience and everything, but it was till such a nice feeling to have the freedom of my own home and not have to worry about the kids.

I've been doing the usual uni visits which is always fun so I saw Poppy and Kim at their uni. I worked with Alexander for a short time when he was back from College for halfterm. I've been to london a bit and got a new earpiercing, aparently its called a 'conch'. I#m not really up with that lingo. I plan to get a little tattoo on my foot before uni, but I'll wait for that till after China. Laura has been at home so I've seen her quite a bit and people are gradually getting back which is nice. I haven't however seen the likes of Jen, Maddie or Tiff this entire year which makes me quite sad and I can't wait to see them!! Luckily I see Mads and Jen next week but Tiff is off in Rwanda so we will finally be reunited at the end of August.

I've done the odd thing like helping out a bit with the youth ambassadors and I am appearing in my drama teahcer's Karen summer village show which is always fun. Appart from that I've just been trying to get up my fitness a bit for China as I am off to a Martial Arts course for 2 months in the Fujian Province SE China, crazy tiiimes!! I'm sooo excited. I've stretched barely at all, bad Naomi, so I've sure I will regret that but I will try and be better before I leave! I've done quite a lot fo swimming and running.

I leave in 18 days I think now so I am trying to get all my stuff together and organise evrything. I have 11 injections to have that are mega expensive, I think I've had 6 or something so far so still quite a few to go. My last one is the day before I leave so I really squeezed that one in. There is so much to think about, money, phone, flight transfers etc etc etc I have never been outside of Europe so I am not prepared for this! I got my 'buddy list' from the gap year company which had emails of people who start at the academy the same day as I do so I have been in contact with a few people, which was great as I don't feel so much like I am entering into the unknown! It still blows my mind a little to think I am heading off to China alone for 60 days, though I'll meet people when I get there. I got my visa with no probs which was a relief.

It is my mum's birthday party this weekend and lots of our Finnish relatives are coming to stay for quite a few days. It will be fantastic as we have never had that many here at once and some have never even come here at all. I can't wait for the manicness of having everyone stay and it will be nice to see them all again.

I hope to have a barbeque again before I leave to say goodbye to all my friends. It is funny because ti almost exactly a year ago, give or take 2 days, that I was leaving for France, Disneyland. It doesn't feel like a year ago but I guess a lot has happened since then so in some ways it does. I am about to embark definitely on the biggest part of my gap year which I guess is a nice way to end it as three weeks after I am back I am off to uni. I will have to have some though and reflections on the entire thing when I return! I already know I can't wait for uni though which is a good feeling as after A-levels it was the last thing I wanted to think about. So I guess thats definitely a positive thing to come out of the gap year as now I am ready and want to go to uni :)

I will deffo do an update before I leave on how my mum's party went and whether I am prepared or not for the biggest adventure so far. We will seeeeee.
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ps. I don't really know why I put x's after this its not like this blog is to anyone in particular, mainly for recording stuff for myself which kinda means I am sending x's to myslef. Not acceptable. But I know my fam atleast reads this so I'll keep sending them anyway :P

Three weeks of snowy times remaining!

I guess I should try and pick up where I left off which was .... just over a month ago, wow it feels likes ages ago!

So the langage cafe I mentioned in my last post was very enjoyable. I've been to the English and French cafe's a few times each and it was really nice to meet some foreigners :) I also did a French cooking evening with the French group where we made all kids of quiches and an apple tart. We went over to one of the Finnish girls apartments and listened to French music, drank red wine and chatted in french, t'was a rather perfect night ;) Oh I did miss my last bus home though so had to get a taxi at midnight which did cost me 15 euros more than the bus would, but not a big problem I guess!

I was ill for basically a week with a stomach virus I caught of Tatu which was more than a bit unpleasant. Just a kind of constant stinging pain that meant I got hardly any sleep for days. But to be fair Riikka and their Dad both got it so I was bound to get it at some point even though Satu did escape it!

Last weekend we had Satu's 40th birthday party which was lost of fun. The kids went to a family friends and me and Satu baked all sorts of things. We had 2 cakes, 3 quiches a salad and I even made some spring rolls..get me. We spent the whole day cooking and everyone seemed to really like the food. Almost everyone went out to a bar about midnight but being the youngster there I decided I didnät really fancy it. i've been out a couple of times with Satu to bars and I've enjoyed it but when you are way younger than everyone else it isn't quite the same lol. So me and one other lady stayed back. I tidied up too which Satu was very pleased about. She did feel rather il in the morning which was quite funny as it seemed like I was the sensible one looking after the guests who had stayed over haha.

I have also made a good friend on my English course called Rachel who is from the Philipines. She is around my mum's age but we get on really well so the age difference doesn't seem to matter at all which is nice. She lives down the road from me and so gives me a lift to the lessons and back most days. I dropped off her homework one evening when she had been away from the lesson and she invited me in for dinner as she had a guest round and one person was missing. That is when she taught me to make the spring rolls and I did for the party and thenwe sang Karaoke after which I haven't done since Disney so brought back many mems. It was a funny night. Also her husband used to go out with my aunt when they were young and lived in adifferent town, small world! Its funny because I seem to bump into more people I know than Satu does when we are out, it makes us laugh. I wonder if I have anything else major to report?

The children's dad is in Thailand and Satu has gone to Lapland on training for 3 days so I am with the kids alone this weekend. It always scares me because it really could be a disaster with Tatu. So far its been ok, both kids did come home like an hour late so I got quite worried but I seem to have got them to bed ok with no major probs. Saying that Tatu may come down any minute and want his mum but fingers crossed he falls asleep! Then only one more night to go. I made Mokkapalaat with him earlier which he seemed to enjoy.

I've been out with Ellu in the evening a couple of times and also with Anna once. We went to a place called 'Tivoli' which means carnival and is the young people's place here. Funny thing was that even though it was over 18 everyone looked even younger than me and we were sure there were some 15 year old sneaked in there lol. Its always funny when we go out as my cousinf Elina never speaks English to me, but when she has had a few drinks we chat away! I really had never heard her speak Enlgish before!

So my last few weeks will be filled up with Easter and then Vappu which is a Finnish celebration when I get to wear my graduation cap my aunt and uncle bought me :D I visited my older cousin Vilja with her 2 children last weekend and we are off with Vilja, her sister Saara, Anna, Ellu and me to dinner, bowling and drinks next Friday which I am really looking forward too. I can definitely say the thing I have enjoyed most about my experience here is spending time with my relatives that I usually only see once every year or two and for only a couple of weeks. They've really been so welcoming and I've really felt like part of the family. I am also going to Kuopi next weekend with Satu to visit her friend there when the children are ¨back at there Dad's. I met her friend and at the party and she is nice.

Ooh one more thing, I visited Satu mum and dad with the children one weekend a while ago in Kuhmo. I loved the food their grandma cooked as it was all vegetarian traditional finnish food mmmm, I have a feeling the kids weren't so pleased with all the vegetables though. It was nice to get away from Joensuu and see somewhere new and we stopped off at Nurmes on the way back so I saw my Mum's old house hwere she grew up :) It was quite stressful in the car with Tatu screaming though so I did have to have my ipod speakers up quite loud to try and stop the frustration lol.

I think my next blog will either be from home sweet home in England or when I am just about the leave which is exciting times! Once again as I am nearing the end of this experince I am reeeaaally ready to be back home. I keep thinking about my friends and fam and the fact that I am offto China wooooo! Although I will have to go on a major fitness drive when I am back to try and even be slightly prepared, but I can deal with that I hope as I've done more than enough lying around inside in this cold weather! Love to all xxxxxxxxx

Snow, snow and more snow!

SO I am half way through the whole au pairing experince already! To be fair it does feel like I've been here a while but it's still nice to think that I've reached this mile stone.

So where to begin with my update? Well I started the Finnish grammar course which is good and helping I think. All the other people are older internationals who have lived in Finland quite a while. So in one sense I speak and understand a lot quicker and more fluently, but they on the other hand have been studying Finnish for a few years so they have a grasp of the grammar where as I have never strudied it before. So in that way it is quite challenging. I learn new vocab every time and the grammar I have learnt has really hepled me to hopefuly make less mistakes when I speak as I really had no clue about how any of it worked before and just spoke, hoping it was correct.

I have spent a lot of my free time with my aunt, uncle and cousins which is really nice. Been to the cinema a few times, went skiing with Anna and have stayed over night at my aunt's a few times. The children stay over at their Dad's every other weekend so that is when I get a chance to stay away one night if I want.

It snowed like crazy all through Januray and through half of Feb and I did atleast an hour and a half of snow clearing everyday which is really quite tiring. It was also really dark and gloomy in January. In february it got a lot colder like -20 to -37 but the sun came out (yaaaay!) and it hasn't snowed for about 2 weeks now which is a record since I've been here (fingers crossed) but aparentley its snowing again this Sunday. Its much more cheerful when the sun it out here and the snow might start to melt a bit in a few weeks which will be nice. My aim is to see some grass before I leave haha.

I have also helped out at Riikka and Tatus's school 3 times. I went into the different classes and did a presentation about life in England compared to FInland and about myself. It was quite daunting at first but it was enjoyable and a change. I also even taught and Enlgish class once one my own when the teacher was away! Riika's teacher gave me achocolate bar on the first day to say thank you, which was nice of him. I also got to have a school dinner the days I was there for free. The school food is free for all the students and everyone eats it. It is much nicer and helathy than English school dinners by a looong way. The food is actually something I would like to eat at home and is much better for the kids. The girls were very sweet there and showed me round the school during breaks and chatted to me lots.

Then for Yasmin's birthday she came to Finland :D It was so great as the whole thing was a planned surprise that she didn't find out about untill on her birthday 2 days before. I took the the train up to Helsinki at the weekend for 3 nights and most of the cousins came aswell. With had a meal at my aunt's a played a board game, then went bowling and then clubbing. We waited outside the blub for an hour and I honetsly think that's the coldest I've ever been! Though I would die soon of cold, don't think I warmed myself up again that whole night even when finally inside. I went shopping and ice skating with Yaz too. Elina and Anna came all the way from Joensuu too but Anna actually got ill about an hour after arriving here! It was such a shame becasue the train ticketd are so expensive and she'd come all this way only to be ill and have to stay in bed :(

A week later my parents came to Joensuu and only left yesterday. I spent a few night's with them at my aunt's which was lovely and my aunt and uncle from Helsinki were there too. There have been some winter sports going on in the town centre and we saw some ice swimming and some amazing ice sculptures too. Anna took me to see the 'vanhujen tanssi' last friday where all the 6th formers dress up in ballgowns and tuxedos and have a traditional dance. The girls all looked amazing I was very jealous of their pretty dresses, it would be great it we did something like that in Enlgand.

Last but not least I went to a thing called a 'Language Cafe' yesterday with Anna for English speaking people to talk to each other, organised by the university. It was great to finally meet some other internationals who sepak English as I don't know where they've all bee hiding out before. They also have a French meeting I will try out next week which will be even better as I really should be practisiing my French for uni. I'd love to go to both meetings every week but as I also do my Finnish lessons twice a week I think that may be too many evenings away from my job so I will just take each week as they come and go to as many as I can really.

Over all, I have been enjoying my stay more recently. I'm sure seeing my family helped a lot and also I don't feel that Tatu's bad behavious is affecting me as much. It was still pretty scary when Satu went away to Denmark for a couple of days and he has had a couple of really bad tantrums alone with me since I last wrote but I THINK he may be a little calmer these last couple of weeks or atleast it maybe I don't mind it as much now. I will end this new blog here as my arms are starting to ache from all this typing! I will probably write a new blog in a months time or some thing. Hei hei for now xx

Suomi/Finland - Life as an au pair

Hello there my blog you,
So the next part of my gap year has officially begun, and as always I'm thrown straight into the deep end. I've been in Finland for 2 and half weeks now. I'm staying exactly 4 months, 3rd Jan - 3rd May.

I spent the first week with my fam in Finland, I had a few days in Helsinki and saw my Disney friend Elisa which was great :D then I went up to Joensuu in eastern Finland by train with my cousin Mikko and his girlfriend as that is where I am now au pairing. I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle in Joensuu for the remaining few days and did some shopping and went bowling with my three cousins and their bfs/gfs before meeting my au pair fam. I actually had the flu/a very bad cold for the entire first week that I was here, which was typical considering I'd just arrived! I don't think I could have caught it here in Finland as I actually started feeling ill the first night I arrived and a few of my friends back home had been ill, so I blame them I'm sure! There is of course lots of snow here and in Joensuu it has been very cold some days, it has ranged so far from -2 as the warmest and -30 as the coldest. I haven't really had too much trouble with it though, I think the amount of warm clothes my Mum bought me has really paid off!

SO i am into the second week with my au pair family. The mum Satu is really nice and chatty, we get on very well and do quite a lot of things together. She is very busy with her work as she's a doctor and always has lots to do in the evenings too so doesn't get much of a break, so I've been helping her get things done. Her daughter is 11 and caled Riikka. She could'nt be better behaved and is very sweet. She loves horses and was quite shy at first but now chats to me quite a lot and tries the English out on me that she has learnt. Her son Tatu though is a real handful. He can be quite a sweet kid as he likes playing with me. We play cars, and shooting games running round the house. We read toghether sometimes and he recently built a den is his room that he likes to play in. On the other hand he doesn't have any control over his temper. If he doesn't have his way in the slightest he gets very angry and can cry/throw things/ lash out at people a lot and it is next to impossible to calm him down. I felt I was controlling this ok in the first week but the past 2 days have been very difficult as he is home all afternoon with me without his mum and its hard for me to know what to do when he has a tantrum and throws mine or Riikka's things around. I realise this is part of the job, so I will have to stand up to it and let him know I am in charge, but for people who know me they should realise by now that the one thing I am terible at doing is standing up for myself, so this will be a real challenge for me. I am really enjoying everything else about the job and being here, so I really hope that the difficulties I have with Tatu don't ruin it as it is becoming very difficult for me. I am determined to not let it get to me and to work it out somehow so I'll up date on that next time, fingers crossed.

My work generally consists of clearing snow (lots of it!) from the drive, doing some cleaning, looking after Tatu in the afternoon and the children in general when Satu is out e.g. getting them to bed. I also have done lots of cooking such as lasagne, vegetable dishes, spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce, macaroni cheese and chocolate/coffee cakes etc. Some have been very successful, others less so, but I guess that's how you learn! It is all good practise for uni I am sure. In the evenings I have been going to a couple of exercise classes with Satu, going with Satu to take Tatu to football or Riikka to horseriding, going food shopping. Hopefully I am starting a Finnish grammar course twice a week starting next week in the evening.

I have one full day off a week and another day in parts, so I have been seeing my family who live in the same town. It is really nice that I have them as I'm not sure who else I would spend it with! I went shopping one morning with my aunt last week and then at the weekend on Sunday I was at my cousin's Anna with my aunt and Uncle then went to the Cinema with my other cousing Ellu. I should be seeing then again this weekend which is a nice break away. It makes me feel a lot more at home by having them with me here.

So the beginning of this experience has been quite a mixture as I have explained. I said when I first did this blog that I would put the bad aswell as the good bits so I want to do that still. Over all there have been many positive things so far, and I'm sure my Finnish is improving (we speak 2 days Finnish,2 days English) which is the main reason I came here. There are some difficult parts to the job to be sure, but I am optimitic that my time here we be very positive.

I will write again soon <3

Home Sweet Home/ Time for the next adevnture!

Sooooooo I have been home a month and a half but it feels like sooo much longer I swear. The first week or so it was so nice to be back and I literally couldn't wait to get home from Disney when I was leaving. Looking back, Disney really was a fantastic experience. All the amazing times and the yes really bad times too made it everything I wanted! I got some work experience and met some amazing people. I had a fantastic time living in Paris but the work wasn't so interesting that I wanted to stay, it made me realise I really wouldn't like to be in a job like that for the rest of my life. Plus I learnt a load of French which was just great :) So all in all everyhting I could have asked for.
About 10 days after being home I went to visit Gygy my Hungarian friend from Disney and stayed with her in Budapest. I had a fantastic time and stayed there for 6 days. It was actually the first time I had flown anywhere completely on my own but no glitches (ok I did get on the wrong bus on my way home and no-one seemed to speak English so I nearly missed my flight but lets not mention that) so I am feeling rather wise and travelled now... ok maybe not that much! We did so much in those days and I really couldn't have asked for anything more form Gygy she showed me everything, I really did have my own personal tour guide! I stayed in her university halls in Buda and we did lots of touristy things during the day. Everything was seriously cheap too which was a plus. Ok so I did get my purse stolen on the second day, that was a low point, BUT just by chance I didn't have any important cards in there or my passport and only some money so I had enough to last and I have just the other day got most of the money claimed back on my insurance so it didn't really matter. I was on the bus and it was crowded and my bag wasn't closed properley so it was my own fault really. Gygy was my translator at the police station and we had to write an official report it was quite an experience for my first time in a police station. In the evenings we did lots. We went to a folk dance and a belgian bar on the second night and then also to an amazing cruise trip down the river Danube with a buffet dinner and musicians. The view was amazing. Another night we saw Beauty and the Beast at a lovely theatre (we can't escape Disney!) which was in Hungarian but with English subtitles at the top of the stage. One night we went to a huge club called Morrisons (yes I know its like the supermarket, lol) which was an entire building with 4 floors or something. I think we counted it had 9 bars and who knows how many rooms. Each room had a different type of music playing so there was RnB, House, Pop, Indie, Cheesy, you name it it was there. There was a karaoke room too so me and Gygy sang 'Hit me baby one more time' for Disney memories of karaoke. I also went to some parties at her university which was really nice meeting all her friends. I could go on about Hungary forever but I never made a post when I got back so I must move on or this post will take up forever!
I've visited quite a few uni friends now I've stayed at Poppy's twice, been up to visit Jen in Sheffield over Halloween for a long weekend (we went all out a zombies it was great) and visited my sister for a few days and Kim for a few hours as she was nearby. Laura is at home so I have been seeing her quite a bit and we are off to see Kirsty in Bedford this weekend as I finally have a car again(YES!)and we are going to a silent disco which I am a bit too excited about as I love these sooo much. Ellie has been here too as she's on a gap year working so I've seen her a bit and we are going to watch the new Harry Potter on Firday, I cannot wait. Anyone who knows me know that I am a super Harry Potter geek so this will be my heaven. I spent a week working with Alexander during his halfterm which was lovely to see him as I missed his party so he showed me all his pictures and I found out a bit about his time at college. It was be really nice I'm seeing him again at xmas.
To add to that, Niek came to stay for a long weekend too and we really did pack everything in. Ok so we did see 3 muscials which I know is a bit unacceptabole but we both do acting and he reeaally wanted to see them and I wasn't complaining :P so we saw Oliver!, Legally Blonde and Mamma Mia! They were all great and whole less cheesy (or atleast bearably cheesy) than I thought they might be. We also went to Thorpe Park, Ripley's Believe it Or Not and London Dungeons with lots of half price tickets so we really did do loads. I was pretty exhausted by the end of all those days in London, but it was really fun I'm happy I saw Niek and Gygy since Disney and hopefully we will all 3 meet up next year too.
Wow so looking back at that it really does seem like loads, no wonder it feels longer than a month and a half, BUT even so I am verrry ready to move on to the next part of my gap year now. 3 months does feel like a long time at home and if there's one thing I hate its sitting around and doing nothing. I guess this is a good length of time to be at home because I have managed to catch up with my friends and do some other exciting things but it still feels like I often have days lounging around the house trying to find things to do. I did try to find xmas work but I arrived a bit late and all the major stuff seemed to be taken so I will hopefully earn a bit with Alexander. I also may be doing a couple of scratch play performances with NYT which would be amaaazing but I've yet to hear back so fingers crossed for that. I have booked my flight for Finland and am off on 3rd of January. Just to mention I am now officially going to martial arts academy in China for the summer, how crazy is that?! I should explain more about how I ended up doing this but this blog is so lengthy I think I will have to leave that discussion for another day. So for now I have had a bit of a break here in Enlgnd but am sooo ready for my next endevour so not long now!xxxxxxxx

The end is nigh!

I only have 10 days till I come home it is crazy! I have 5 work days left with 2 days at Steam and 3 at BTM. This month has been so much quieter than the 2 summer months which was always expected. 90% of the people I knew left so haven't really been partying it up anymore! I kind of liked the fact is was more relaxing though with the 3 days off (despite the 10 hours days!) and just relaxing when I'm home. Work seems to take up the whooole day here though as I will get up at 9 to get ready for work, then leave at 10 (stupide bus times) to get to costuming ready to start just before 12 and then I don't finish till 10 and by the time I get home its about 11.30!
Tiffany came to stay the other week and we spent one night in Paris togther and then one night in my apartment. It was soo nice to see her and forget about Disney for a bit. We did go to the park one day, but its always so different being a guest there when you are not working so it was nice to show her around. We spent the other two days in paris and actually got so much done. We weren't in a rush but we were very efficient we went to the flea market, Versailles, catacombs, orangerie museum, Shakespeare and co bookshop and latin quarter to name a few! The hotel room was nice aswell.
I've been sorting out stuff for leaving gradually, present shopping, attempting to get my eurostar tickets but failing miserably and my mum now has to send them from England which is annoying but can't be helped. I am on my 3rd day off today before back to work tommorrow, I went to Paris with Elisa yesterday and we went to the Paris science museum. It was happy hour apparently so we got student tickets for 3 euros and spent nearly all day there lol. We also went to a famous cemetary before and saw the graves of Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison and Chopin. Afterwards we went to see the arch of La Defence which was huuuge and then headed back home in the evening. I am going to a swimming pool with lots of slides called Aquaboulevard today with a German girl from BTM which will make a nice change. Not really sure where it is but I guess I will will wait and see!
I had one really hard day at work on Steam near the beginning of the month when it was a aturday evening. We had changed to only having one train and there were around 47,000 guests in the park so this was no way enough and we ended up with 2 hour queues at every station! Needless to say we had plenty of guest situations and the guests were all just shouting and complaining for the 30 minutes I had to wait alone at each station. Was actually quite scary when you have 400 guests in a queue that you are in charge of and all of them are shouting at you! Not fun! Also when the train left Fantasyland station everyone actually started booing really loudly! Oh the lovely guests of Disney. I spoke to people on other attractions and they said it was the same with some of them having worked there for ages and had never seen the guests that bad! I hope I don't experience that again before I leave but I'm not working at a weekend again so I should be safe lol.
I have already started making plans for when I go home as the last thing I want to do is be bored and fed up, I am going to make the most of my time back in the Shire and have a break too as I have been working since I finished my last exam! I have already planned to visit Laura in Southampton, then I am going to Hungary for 6 days to see my firend Gygy from Disney. Also at the beginning of November Niek is coming to stay for a long weekend and we have booked tickets to go see Legally Blonde and Mamma mia which will be great :D I am really quite concerned about my money and all that though. I know I have enough right now till I leave but there is no way it will last the whole 3 months at home with everything I want to do and I still want to save some. I will have to find some kind of work as soon a sposs when I go home which will be difficult to work around everything else I want to do. I hope it all works out I will just have to keep searching untill I find something!
This last week I hope to do a lot more fun things and go out etc to party before I leave! I am definitely heading off to Paris for the night one last time and hopefully will have a party here in la Boiserie. My next post will probably be when I am back in England aaah can't wait! Definitely time to come home and 'rentre chez moi'. Kohta kotiin! xxxxxxxxxx