wow
Came down from a MASSIVE high today. Yesterday was so awesome that i feel the rest of the year will pale into insignificance. I got back from my lecture at 6.15, made some tea then checked my emails - like i normally do. Except this time i had an email from mike the team leader guy i went to kenya with this summer. Turned out he had a spare ticket to go see Tracy Chapman at the Brighton centre and had remembered how much i liked her. After phoning him frantically i ran for a bus and met him and beth, the other team leader (also mike's girlfriend), and had quite literally one of the best nights of my life. Tracy Chapman's songs got me through a hell of a lot of tough times and to see her perform them was mind-blowing.
But what made the experience so fucking special was that i got to spend so much time catching up with two of the most amazing people i know on this planet. 5 weeks seems like a short time to get to know people but i really connected with them. i forget that they're like nearly 30 until i remember how many cool things they've done in their lives. Mike only got back from africa a week ago and beth has already been back to malawi and mozambique since she did the kenya project with us. Beth has the job/life i want. she sets up development projects in Africa for quest, which involves planning every stage of the expeditions in the countries they are running in. Her aids orphanage project in malawi looks so awesome i just wish i could afford it, i'm desperate to go next year. i remember her planning and telling me about it all summer and now it's actually going ahead. mike and i have the same immature sense of humour and still managed to find inappropriate things funny. The gap year company i went with, quest overseas (shameless plug), is based in haywards heath so beth and mike live in brighton and hove when they're back home. the fact it all unfolded so randomly and spontaneously made it so much cooler, i had even left my lecture early yesterday. we'd been texting and planning to meet up soon anyway, i just cant think of a more perfect way to have done it.
I can cross that experience off my list of things to do before i die.
But what made the experience so fucking special was that i got to spend so much time catching up with two of the most amazing people i know on this planet. 5 weeks seems like a short time to get to know people but i really connected with them. i forget that they're like nearly 30 until i remember how many cool things they've done in their lives. Mike only got back from africa a week ago and beth has already been back to malawi and mozambique since she did the kenya project with us. Beth has the job/life i want. she sets up development projects in Africa for quest, which involves planning every stage of the expeditions in the countries they are running in. Her aids orphanage project in malawi looks so awesome i just wish i could afford it, i'm desperate to go next year. i remember her planning and telling me about it all summer and now it's actually going ahead. mike and i have the same immature sense of humour and still managed to find inappropriate things funny. The gap year company i went with, quest overseas (shameless plug), is based in haywards heath so beth and mike live in brighton and hove when they're back home. the fact it all unfolded so randomly and spontaneously made it so much cooler, i had even left my lecture early yesterday. we'd been texting and planning to meet up soon anyway, i just cant think of a more perfect way to have done it.
I can cross that experience off my list of things to do before i die.