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Move in on the 1st July! CANNOT WAIT especially after the less than lovely place I’ve been living for eight months. Yay!

Best time ever in Sydney and on the Gold Coast!

Booked my tickets for Australia this afternoon! I’m off in March for three weeks in Sydney and on the Gold Coast. It won’t be real until I’m there though…so excited!

paid £14 in library fines the other week. what is wrong with me??

...and no meat. feeling great (except for the sleep deprivation etc that goes along with being a student).

yes, i am now responsible and employed. start next week. bought a new skirt by way of celebration…
This also contributes to the going to australia fund. yay!

Well i was scared of going blonde the first time i dyed my hair…so currently its red. But the next time i dye it it will be blonde. yes.

Am usually quite organised, just seem to have a psychological block when it comes to returning library books…I’m BLACKLISTED at my local library, have had to pay extortionate fines over the years…it was starting to be cheaper to buy the books in the first place. but no more! i WILL return books on time! and give the library clerk a heart attack in the process probably…

I was born without a sense of direction, and am sick of the feeling of blind panic when I’m driving around completely lost…I’ve asked for sat nav for my birthday so fingers crossed there will be no more inconvenient pulling over every two minutes to consult the map!

went in 2006 and 2007, saw great bands, was at first mildly traumatised by the whole hygiene situation but second year round i was hardened to it :-) Camped with a bunch of rowdy guys, came home swearing like a trooper… Totally worth doing even if I did get festival flu after both times.

It just looks like a great way of continuing learning, meeting new people, getting new skills…and you can do it in a different country? Count me in! I’m thinking Ho Chi Minh City at the moment but that might all change…I won’t have enough money or time to do it until about 2009 anyway!

As we all go off to university or on our gap years this autumn, its not going to be so easy to keep up with each other’s lives. So I will be making a special effort via phone, email and journeys around the country to stay in touch with those that mean most. Not such a hardship really :-)

My dad actually asked me to do this a while ago, I’m still working up to it… Its full of my sister’s old junk that it doesn’t look like she’s going to reclaim, having got her own place. Its also full of pretty much anything we don’t know what to do with, so it ends up in the attic. Yay. This is going to be fun. But I have been promised compensation so its ok.

Almost immediately after returning from an exhausting but amazing train trip around central europe, my friend and I began plotting another trip. As we’re more experienced in the whole living-like-hobos thing now, we decided on Eastern Europe, maybe next summer. Hopefully go to a music festival while we’re there as well.

My aim is to get on the exchange scheme at my university, which means I get to go and study in North America for five months! It would be so exciting. Just have to apply for the scheme, work really hard and cross my fingers…

Whilst travelling this summer, I was vegetarian for almost two months without realising it – it was just cheaper and healthier. I didn’t miss meat at all. I never really liked red meat all that much so it will just be chicken I’ll have to cut out now I’m home. I usually prefer the sound of the veggie option in restaurants anyway, so I might as well officially committ!

I used to jog in the mornings but have let it slide for several months due to a crazy schedule and not enough sleep. But things are about to settle down so I should really get back out there; it really used to set me up for the day.

While I’m studying this year I really need to get a part time job to get money to go towards my imminent trip to AUSTRALIA! I’m thinking of bar work or call centres. Can’t afford to be picky :-).

I have an opportunity to go and stay with friends in Sydney for three weeks in April 2008! A life’s ambition is very close to being achieved. All I have to do is get the money for the flights together by mid-December, eek. Wish me luck…

Went to Italy this summer, stayed with my friend’s family in Verona. Loved the language, and because I can pretty much speak French ok, I vaguely understood what was going on but I want to be able to speak it fluently and write it etc. That way, I can return to Italy and talk to everyone properly.
I’m starting a course in October that goes on for about 20 weeks…we shall see if that is enough :-)