I'm in the greenest place ever... surrounded by tourists, ready to couchsurf and wishing my phone worked.
Had a rocky day today, but am feeling somewhat improved for the flight getting here safely. Ryan air aren't lying when they say Budget! I felt like I was on P/T! Ooh and I was cranky that I had to pay £20 to check my bag cause I didnt select that option when I booked my ticket. Oh well. Today is a day that will become a rosy memory, I feel sure.
But I wish I wasn't so lonely.
And I wish that I new where all the gays in the village were...
But at least I'm here safe and sound!
May 14, 2008
May 12, 2008
On popular request
Okay. I've been slack at updating this. I assure you I will be online more often from here on in. For those who have spoken with me over the last week (yes I've been here a whole week!!) you know it's been a rather tough week. But I think the light is here. Slowly and ever so surely. To those who have offered support and endured my tears down the line. Thank you. So so much.
I'm not going to try and fill in the juicy bits of the last week, so the selected highlights are all I have time for right at this point in time.
The flight was quite good. It seemed longer than I expected, but I managed to get some sleep and enjoy the fabulously packaged but tasty food! I even managed to pilfer a gorgeous blanket as per the advice of sordid friends. I think that will come in super-duper handy! Flying over Dubai was simply breathtaking in it's total difference to home... as was flying over the terrain of Iran and Turkey. I couldn't even imagine it would look so totally different to home.
Gladly Anne-Marie (Katie's mum) was at Heathrow with arms open filled with hugs and tears to see me. I was wrapped after the anxiety of the flight. Although, flying into London was so clear and beautiful and like a scenic tour given by my fellow passener in adjacent seat who was English.
In the first week I have seen:
Wimbledon
Oxford: AMAZING university city. How a whole village can be made of university and museums and galleries. It was all cobbled streets, and English pubs with studious students attending to tutorial readings. I had a great look around here.
London city: Westminster, Thames, Imperial War Museum, Picadilly, Trafalgar Square... main sites.
Cambridge: AMAZING x2. So beautiful. With a river in the middle and punting. Oh. My. Goodness. To be an academic there would be a dream. So historic but so lively. #
SoHo: like kings cross.
West End: I saw Cabaret. It was fantastic. And small. But invigorating. And nude!
oooh. Internet cafe is closing. Damn.
Sidebar (I'm in the back of a post office and they sell imported beers here! I could type and have beer! It's sold in drink fridges like regular soft drinks!)
Til tomorrow my lovelies. Please perservere. I will keep updating more.
xx
I'm not going to try and fill in the juicy bits of the last week, so the selected highlights are all I have time for right at this point in time.
The flight was quite good. It seemed longer than I expected, but I managed to get some sleep and enjoy the fabulously packaged but tasty food! I even managed to pilfer a gorgeous blanket as per the advice of sordid friends. I think that will come in super-duper handy! Flying over Dubai was simply breathtaking in it's total difference to home... as was flying over the terrain of Iran and Turkey. I couldn't even imagine it would look so totally different to home.
Gladly Anne-Marie (Katie's mum) was at Heathrow with arms open filled with hugs and tears to see me. I was wrapped after the anxiety of the flight. Although, flying into London was so clear and beautiful and like a scenic tour given by my fellow passener in adjacent seat who was English.
In the first week I have seen:
Wimbledon
Oxford: AMAZING university city. How a whole village can be made of university and museums and galleries. It was all cobbled streets, and English pubs with studious students attending to tutorial readings. I had a great look around here.
London city: Westminster, Thames, Imperial War Museum, Picadilly, Trafalgar Square... main sites.
Cambridge: AMAZING x2. So beautiful. With a river in the middle and punting. Oh. My. Goodness. To be an academic there would be a dream. So historic but so lively. #
SoHo: like kings cross.
West End: I saw Cabaret. It was fantastic. And small. But invigorating. And nude!
oooh. Internet cafe is closing. Damn.
Sidebar (I'm in the back of a post office and they sell imported beers here! I could type and have beer! It's sold in drink fridges like regular soft drinks!)
Til tomorrow my lovelies. Please perservere. I will keep updating more.
xx
May 3, 2008
And I would walk 500 miles, then I would walk 500 more...
So I'm through those mysterious gates of Tullamarines International Departure Lounge. The mood throughout the airport seems to be one of exhaustion and resignation. It's been a week of hugely mixed emotions: A ride that's taken me from excited, to sick, to apathetic, to thinking that I have, in fact made a monumental mistake. And now here I am, excited, lonely (how can this be??), unsure, riddled with titredness, a deep fear that I have taken the entire contents of Yarraville with me, and a huge amount of relief that I am finally standing here.
I have been blessed this week with amazing displays of friendship and love. I have felt special and wanted and like my presence will be missed. I think this will be a 3 months to remember!!
My girl, mum and dad and best friend were all at the airport, cheering me on, holding back their own tears (and my sweet girl, it's fine that a few overflowed at the end!! I feel loved and missed and valued). I feel brave. And I never expected to.
I hope that it all goes to plan, and I hope that my tiredness doesn't take the edge off. I need a couple of sleeps and then I think the high excitement will run through my body like a river. Hopefully a river that feels more like the Danube than the Murray!
SO to those who have wished me off well this week. I thank you, love you and will miss you.
Bon Voyage!
(ooh my plane should be ready to board! Hurrah!)
I have been blessed this week with amazing displays of friendship and love. I have felt special and wanted and like my presence will be missed. I think this will be a 3 months to remember!!
My girl, mum and dad and best friend were all at the airport, cheering me on, holding back their own tears (and my sweet girl, it's fine that a few overflowed at the end!! I feel loved and missed and valued). I feel brave. And I never expected to.
I hope that it all goes to plan, and I hope that my tiredness doesn't take the edge off. I need a couple of sleeps and then I think the high excitement will run through my body like a river. Hopefully a river that feels more like the Danube than the Murray!
SO to those who have wished me off well this week. I thank you, love you and will miss you.
Bon Voyage!
(ooh my plane should be ready to board! Hurrah!)
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