Crazy times
Fuck, well, there's so much I could write down here that I'm not even going to attempt expressing everything. Life is pretty crazy right now. The last two weeks have been one big blur. With the mix of planning, organising, shopping, having a great time and being with Ben, I hardly feel like I've stopped for 10 minutes. Tonight is my last Friday in the country but I realised its the first opportunity I've had to spend a night at home in so long that I had to take it! Plus I probably would've collapsed without it lol.
Don't know where to start...I suppose I'll just say that I'm experiencing a huge range of emotions these days, and its fucking with my head a little bit but I'm okay. Its mostly - and I feel a bit lame/annoying saying this - to do with Ben, and dreading/fearing leaving him. I didn't think it would be playing with my mind this much, but I obviously didn't realise how intrinsically linked to my life he is. Its kind of taken me by surprise, and its a bit scary. But I know that I'll be okay. Ten weeks apart is nothing in the amount of time we've been together. I basically just want to leave now and get this thing lagging over me done with. Once I've left I know I can just focus on having an amazing time, and then I'll come back and be with him again. I only hope he's okay while I'm gone. I can't deny I'm worried about him, and I wish I didn't have to leave him behind to do this. But I have to do this. And he understands that, thankfully.
Yeah I know, it all sounds stupidly dramatic! I'm sorry, forgive me. I just love that boy too much. *shakes head*
I'm not feeling as organised as I'd like. Typically, I've left lots of things to the last minute. I know what needs to be done though so I should be able to stay on top of it. Tomorrow I need to sort my travellers cheques and exchange some money. When I'm off of here I'm planning to get all the shit I want to take together and see what I already have and what I still need to buy. And hopefully start working out how to pack it all. Its all surprisingly complicated!
We had the most RIDICULOUS and unneccessary stress yesterday. It was an absolute nightmare! Basically I realised that it's impossible to get a visa for Vietnam when you arrive at the airport, which we had started to rely on, and that today and monday were bank holidays. The website said visas take 2 -5 working days to be processed, and we only had 1 and a half left!! I was literally SHITTING myself! I called Cris, in a complete state, and made her round up Nick and Zoe so that the 4 of us could rush straight down to the embassy (this was at 4pm, and the consular section had officially closed at 12.30pm). We were seriously worried we were going to have to change our flight. But thank GOD the people there were nice and let us order an express visa (for £55) that we can pick up on tuesday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon! Thats 12 hours before we leave!! How completely ridiculous is that? If my mum hadn't mentioned to me 'Are your visas going to be okay by the way?' and I hadn't decided to have a quick check in my rough guide, we'd be absolutely fucked. Apparently they wouldn't even have let us on the plane at heathrow! We are such complete TWATS. Still cannot believe we let that happen.
Nick has decided to extent the trip for 3 weeks in Australia/New Zealand, and to do that he had to change his outbound flight. So we're not flying out there with him anymore, he leaves on Tuesday night. Its a bit weird because I'd obviously played out in our mind the whole airport experience with the 4 of us, but ah well. I'm happy he gets to do what he wants, although its a bit annoying because he was the main one campaigning to be back in time for Glastonbury and then at the last minute (he told us this a week ago) he's decided not to go. We don't even have any idea how long he's been planning it. *shrug*
I've had a few updates from Dixie - it sounds like there having an amazing time! Its really good keeping up contact with her.
Lauren got back last week. She's been away on a gap year project for 6 months so it was great having her back. Although I've already said goodbye to her, because she's going away with family tomorrow. Such a shame, I love Lauren and only got to spend a week with her. Its not too bad though because she's actually going to be in Bangkok at the same time as us and I'm pretty sure we'll meet up there. But then she's staying in Thailand until september, and then we're all off to uni...gah! What weird fucking times. I know she'll be a friend for life though, and she'll only be half an hour away in Manchester.
The majority of nights at the moment are spent in Luke's room with Luke, Lara, Ben, Jason, Harry, a bottle (or two) or whiskey and this brilliant kareoke game. Its fun though man, I'm really enjoying life over there. Although I think my body is actively starting to repell alcohol though LOL. Today and wednesday are the only days I haven't got pissed in the last two weeks, I swear! Saturday night was such a mash-up night! There was supposed to be a rave but it got cancelled so 20 or so people just ended up in Ben's roomed fucked off there heads til 11am lol. Haven't had a night like that in ages, it was fun. Although the comedown was not.
Righty ho well, that was a nice juicy update. It was really refreshing to write stuff down actually. It's quite plausable that I won't have another chance to update before I leave so there we go folks! I'll say goodbye and wish me luck with getting everything sorted the next few days! I'll definitely post on here while I'm gone because I obviously love keeping record of my life and, well, this is probably going to be the best experience of my life. How mental is that? Anyway I don't know when or how often that should be, but it shouldn't be too long away at all (within the week) and will hopefully be at least once a week.
HOW EXCITING. WHAT THE HELL IS IT GOING TO BE LIKE?? ASIA?? ME?? TWO AND A HALF MONTHS? MAAAAAAAAAAAADNESSSSSS.
Don't know where to start...I suppose I'll just say that I'm experiencing a huge range of emotions these days, and its fucking with my head a little bit but I'm okay. Its mostly - and I feel a bit lame/annoying saying this - to do with Ben, and dreading/fearing leaving him. I didn't think it would be playing with my mind this much, but I obviously didn't realise how intrinsically linked to my life he is. Its kind of taken me by surprise, and its a bit scary. But I know that I'll be okay. Ten weeks apart is nothing in the amount of time we've been together. I basically just want to leave now and get this thing lagging over me done with. Once I've left I know I can just focus on having an amazing time, and then I'll come back and be with him again. I only hope he's okay while I'm gone. I can't deny I'm worried about him, and I wish I didn't have to leave him behind to do this. But I have to do this. And he understands that, thankfully.
Yeah I know, it all sounds stupidly dramatic! I'm sorry, forgive me. I just love that boy too much. *shakes head*
I'm not feeling as organised as I'd like. Typically, I've left lots of things to the last minute. I know what needs to be done though so I should be able to stay on top of it. Tomorrow I need to sort my travellers cheques and exchange some money. When I'm off of here I'm planning to get all the shit I want to take together and see what I already have and what I still need to buy. And hopefully start working out how to pack it all. Its all surprisingly complicated!
We had the most RIDICULOUS and unneccessary stress yesterday. It was an absolute nightmare! Basically I realised that it's impossible to get a visa for Vietnam when you arrive at the airport, which we had started to rely on, and that today and monday were bank holidays. The website said visas take 2 -5 working days to be processed, and we only had 1 and a half left!! I was literally SHITTING myself! I called Cris, in a complete state, and made her round up Nick and Zoe so that the 4 of us could rush straight down to the embassy (this was at 4pm, and the consular section had officially closed at 12.30pm). We were seriously worried we were going to have to change our flight. But thank GOD the people there were nice and let us order an express visa (for £55) that we can pick up on tuesday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon! Thats 12 hours before we leave!! How completely ridiculous is that? If my mum hadn't mentioned to me 'Are your visas going to be okay by the way?' and I hadn't decided to have a quick check in my rough guide, we'd be absolutely fucked. Apparently they wouldn't even have let us on the plane at heathrow! We are such complete TWATS. Still cannot believe we let that happen.
Nick has decided to extent the trip for 3 weeks in Australia/New Zealand, and to do that he had to change his outbound flight. So we're not flying out there with him anymore, he leaves on Tuesday night. Its a bit weird because I'd obviously played out in our mind the whole airport experience with the 4 of us, but ah well. I'm happy he gets to do what he wants, although its a bit annoying because he was the main one campaigning to be back in time for Glastonbury and then at the last minute (he told us this a week ago) he's decided not to go. We don't even have any idea how long he's been planning it. *shrug*
I've had a few updates from Dixie - it sounds like there having an amazing time! Its really good keeping up contact with her.
Lauren got back last week. She's been away on a gap year project for 6 months so it was great having her back. Although I've already said goodbye to her, because she's going away with family tomorrow. Such a shame, I love Lauren and only got to spend a week with her. Its not too bad though because she's actually going to be in Bangkok at the same time as us and I'm pretty sure we'll meet up there. But then she's staying in Thailand until september, and then we're all off to uni...gah! What weird fucking times. I know she'll be a friend for life though, and she'll only be half an hour away in Manchester.
The majority of nights at the moment are spent in Luke's room with Luke, Lara, Ben, Jason, Harry, a bottle (or two) or whiskey and this brilliant kareoke game. Its fun though man, I'm really enjoying life over there. Although I think my body is actively starting to repell alcohol though LOL. Today and wednesday are the only days I haven't got pissed in the last two weeks, I swear! Saturday night was such a mash-up night! There was supposed to be a rave but it got cancelled so 20 or so people just ended up in Ben's roomed fucked off there heads til 11am lol. Haven't had a night like that in ages, it was fun. Although the comedown was not.
Righty ho well, that was a nice juicy update. It was really refreshing to write stuff down actually. It's quite plausable that I won't have another chance to update before I leave so there we go folks! I'll say goodbye and wish me luck with getting everything sorted the next few days! I'll definitely post on here while I'm gone because I obviously love keeping record of my life and, well, this is probably going to be the best experience of my life. How mental is that? Anyway I don't know when or how often that should be, but it shouldn't be too long away at all (within the week) and will hopefully be at least once a week.
HOW EXCITING. WHAT THE HELL IS IT GOING TO BE LIKE?? ASIA?? ME?? TWO AND A HALF MONTHS? MAAAAAAAAAAAADNESSSSSS.