Okay so I've decided not to work because... well I don't want to. I was offered 12 month contracts but that is way too much of a commitment and I don't want to be here until October next year, I do want to go back to uni soon! And, I was much, much happier travelling. I've been feeling a bit down lately and I know it's because I haven't been honest with myself. So I've made up these plans and they're really exciting and I'm feeling so excited about them all! I'll get to see a mixture of family, family friends and also travel to a bunch of cities on my own, which will be challenging and I'm a little bit scared but also really excited. So by the time I go home (predicting early January) I will have seen the following places (including what I saw in July):
London, Paris, French countryside, Rome, Athens, Greek Islands (Paros, Naxos and Santorini), Helsinki, Berlin, Dresden, Bielefeld, Münster, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne, Edinburgh (again!), Galway, Dublin, Heidelberg, Krakow, Budapest, Ljubljana and Salzburg (spending Christmas there! Got a sleigh ride booked with Vanessa and her friend). Phew!
Just need to decide between Berlin and New York for NYE and whether to see Hong Kong on the way home. And then I'll be back for a (hopefully) hot, Aussie summer!
Reason for the move to London is because my friend Vanessa is heading back to Oz for her sister's 30th and her Nan's 90th birthday and she has kindly offered me her room for the period she is gone, which is so lovely of her! I've already seen most of the touristy bits of London so I can live like a local this time! I'm already making a list of things to do while I'm there and heading back to Camden Markets is definitely one of them!
Me at Camden Markets, not spending nearly enough money!
I love London, it's just the coolest city with the coolest fashion and some of the coolest music. Sure the people can be cold and cranky, but then so can I! I fit right in! I also pick up accents really quickly so heres hoping I don't walk away with a totally wanked-up Kylie Minogue accent.
I plan on doing so much shopping. My poor credit card. And I plan on getting my hair cut and coloured at some cool, funky salon. Maybe I should cut off all my hair and become all Agyness Deyn.
Actually I think I'll keep the hair long, it's taken me since 2006 to get it to this length! But I may go back to black.... hrmmm....OR maybe I'll say, "Just do what you like... but keep the length!" and see what they come up with! I've done this before and I came out looking like an emo. So maybe not the best idea.
What else do I want to do? Well I'm saving the finding-my-future-husband for when I visit Edinburgh afterwards, but let's not limit myself right? There are many Brit boys to get to know. I don't know what it is about me and British boys. It is definitely one of the main factors for me wanting to move to Edinburgh when I finish my next degree. Maybe it'll be like P.S. I Love You (the movie not the book because they are so different!) except set in Scotland, and I'll meet this amazing Scotsman in a field filled with heather and there will be instant chemistry and he'll woo me with his Scottish charm and I'll attract him with my Australian something-er-other and he'll look like Gerard Butler and not die of a brain tumour and that'll be it. What more could I want?
Oh and I plan on seeing Sister Act the musical! I loved the movie (actually, I think I may just go download it).
"I will follow him,
Follow him wherever he may go, oooooooooo
There isn't an ocean too deep (too deep)
A mountain so high it can keep
Keep me away, away from my heart"
And can you believe Sarah and I were singing this in a Berlin café like the cool people that we are!
Well I would tell you more about my plans but I got a creepy comment from someone the other day, and two days ago I woke up in my hostel to find one of my roommates taking photos of me in my sleep! WTF! Who does that?! So, I'm a little spooked at the moment. Anyway, he got a telling off by me and after a denial from him, I did got an apology later that night in which he showed me his camera and there were no pictures of me on it. Yeah, after you've already uploaded them onto the internet and then deleted them off your camera! "And here is the Australian girl I slept with..." Word of advice guys: don't take photos of your female roommates in their sleep. We don't like it! Seems obvious enough, guess not for some people. But I'm now nice and safe in my apartment where only girls live. Relief.
The only not so great thing at the moment is Opa is back in hospital. Looks like the cancer is growing in his shoulder this time and so he has to have some treatment for it as he is in a lot of pain. The medication he has been given for the pain is making him ill so the doctors need to figure out which is the best one to give him that won't make him sick. I feel so helpless being on the other side of the world and not being able to do anything, not that I could do anything while at home except visit him. Hope he begins to feel better soon. He's a fighter!
Okay laptop is dying. And can't wait to catch up with my friend Ali in Australia in January! Yay! Would have liked to have visited her in LA and have her show me around before heading home, but that's okay. Maybe I'll head to New York or Hong Kong instead! I still need to pick where I'm spending New Years! Too many countries to pick from! Maybe I'll wave my hand over a map of Europe and whichever country my finger lands on that's where I'll go!
And to finish the night off, here is a nice song to chill out to.
Good night Australia, love and miss you!
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