a long awaited update
a long time since I posted eh! Well, I've now returned to my parents house. I enjoyed working as a tour guide, but time to move on.
I was going to get a very nice house in bath with Gary, with a year contract. I thought it was sorted, but then first Gary's room got taken and then mine. I was really distraught - I the plan seemed really good and I didn't know what I was going to do instead.
I had already planned a holiday touring the north Yorkshire moors with another friend Gareth. He got a job though and had a dissertation to finish, so couldn't join me. At that point with all my plans being pulled from underneath my feet, I felt as low as I could be. I did the tour on my own though, and it wasn't too bad. Then I went back to bath to see rick wakeman play, but round in my head I was feeling how bad I was at taking opportunities now, and how bleak everything was for me - not sure how I was going to get my future on a pleasant track.
I returned to my parents, wondering whether I was going to return to bath with a different contract, or whether I would stay in Oxford and job-seek. I had thought of doing a TEFL, and while looking at that I saw that people would spend 6 months or a year in another country, and might even make a career of it, and I thought why not give it a go - maybe I'll make a career of it in the end - who knows. So - I've sent my application form fro a CELTA at the British Studies Centre in OXford, and hopefully I'll pass the interview.
A really strange thing that has happened since I returned to Oxford, which I didn't expect - I've become much more interested in Bellringing again - looking at conducting and stuff like that. Last time I was obsessed with Bellringing I was only interested in progressing through the methods, but now I'm more interested in the structure of methods and how bobs and singles get them round.
Ooh, also, I'll be spending a week in a community that have an organic farm. As far as I know, I do 5 hours a day, and get free room and food. I'm quite looking forward to it but have no idea what to expect!
I was going to get a very nice house in bath with Gary, with a year contract. I thought it was sorted, but then first Gary's room got taken and then mine. I was really distraught - I the plan seemed really good and I didn't know what I was going to do instead.
I had already planned a holiday touring the north Yorkshire moors with another friend Gareth. He got a job though and had a dissertation to finish, so couldn't join me. At that point with all my plans being pulled from underneath my feet, I felt as low as I could be. I did the tour on my own though, and it wasn't too bad. Then I went back to bath to see rick wakeman play, but round in my head I was feeling how bad I was at taking opportunities now, and how bleak everything was for me - not sure how I was going to get my future on a pleasant track.
I returned to my parents, wondering whether I was going to return to bath with a different contract, or whether I would stay in Oxford and job-seek. I had thought of doing a TEFL, and while looking at that I saw that people would spend 6 months or a year in another country, and might even make a career of it, and I thought why not give it a go - maybe I'll make a career of it in the end - who knows. So - I've sent my application form fro a CELTA at the British Studies Centre in OXford, and hopefully I'll pass the interview.
A really strange thing that has happened since I returned to Oxford, which I didn't expect - I've become much more interested in Bellringing again - looking at conducting and stuff like that. Last time I was obsessed with Bellringing I was only interested in progressing through the methods, but now I'm more interested in the structure of methods and how bobs and singles get them round.
Ooh, also, I'll be spending a week in a community that have an organic farm. As far as I know, I do 5 hours a day, and get free room and food. I'm quite looking forward to it but have no idea what to expect!