BlueEyedBetty

Finland was fun…now I’m ready to move on to the other nordic countries! Have heard Sweden is lovely and the fjords in Norway sound amazing. They seem to me to be peaceful places. I hope to be able to see them soon.

I really needed a change from the everyday blahness of my life and so to be granted this year off is fabulous – as long as I make the most of it. I hope to broaden my mind and become less worrying and more ‘doing’. Location isn’t important, though it is kind of exciting to be going on a trip to NZ and Australia in less than a week for the next three months. I don’t mind if the trip isn’t life changing, but I hope that it changes my outlook to one of more positivity. If I return to my current status, I want to feel grateful for the situtaion I am in, rather than trapped by circumstance. I guess I want to choose to return to my life here and I hope that whatever I learn in the next year will help me to do that.

I am lucky to have some great friends all over the country, especially in Bristol, Cardiff and Oxford. But I know hardly anyone from my home town, which makes the day-to-day socialising very very hard.. I like time alone which is a good job as I do many things alone when I’m at home. But I would like to be able to call up friends to go for coffee or films. I only have about 5 friends in this whole town (apart from work colleagues) and I’ve lived here for 6 years!! I’ve been voluteering as a dog walker for the elderly for the past 8 or 9 months and so have a friend in a lovely elderly chap, but I’m not planning any wild nights out with him! I may need to join clubs or something when I come home from my sabbatical in order to meet new people..