6 days to go....

Since I last wrote, things have been a bit up and down in terms of how I'm feeling. Only natural I suppose. A few minor little things have been adding up to get me frustrated - panics about visa submission (which I did yesterday so now just desperately hoping they don't take issue with anything and refuse it), things going on here in the UK that've made me feel like I should be here doing things or helping people out rather than jetting off halfway around the world, etc.

HOWEVER, The fact that I realised in my last post that this is right for me has got me through those down times. I interviewed someone to determine whether they were suitable for a gap year on behalf of Lattitude a while ago, and their response to 'how do you think you'll cope if you get home sick?' was that they knew it was only a few months, and would be able to focus on the important work that they were doing in the knowledge that they'd be home soon enough and their adventure will have ended so they might as well make the most of it. GREAT answer. I know that 6 months will actually fly by because I'll be too busy enjoying the experience to worry about it, and it'll be the same in some respects for the people back home. Then it'll just be a case of finding another huge chunk of time to be able to catch up on 6months' worth of everyone's lives. Maybe I should get all my friends to start blogging too...!

What I was actually going to comment on in this post is what I've still got left to do. Yesterday was my last meeting with 142nd Birmingham Brownies - we had a pizza night as it was one of their ideas for the term and we thought it'd be a good celebration-type evening for me to end on. I also took some photos of them so I've got something to show what brownies in the UK get up to!

Today, I've got to go through all my dad's archived photos of friends and family and get some printed to take out with me. I've also got to go to asda and do a bit of shopping, then it's tidy the house, and then I really must see how well the growing mound of stuff in my room will fit into my rucksack.
I've got 4 days home alone now as Dad's at work and my sister's gone back to Uni, so just me and the cat to finish getting organised. At the weekend I need to put my car safely on the front garden (scrappy patch of mud and weeds) and SORN it, then empty it of anything and everything to prevent someone breaking in to her. I've got 'important documents' saved all over the place on 3 different computers at the moment, so need to get them in one place and organised...

I think that's about it. Haven't got the list in front of me but it's pretty short now. Thank goodness.

TTFN