Hey everyone!
So I am mid-way through my majorly busy weekend, I have an essay due in in around 5 hours and in around 6 hours I am getting a train to London. Yesterday I had the orientation for my programme in Birmingham which was amazing! The BUNAC director is SO funny and it was such a laugh to listen to him talk and reel in all the good advice all the different people there had to offer. So saturday I came back to Bangor, then a few hours later got a train to Birmingham, then ... believe it or not folks I successfully used a map to navigate my way to the hostel. Was a bit apprehensive if I am honest at first, ended up going for a breather to subway in apparently one of Birmingham's roughest areas. But the subway was nice and it gave me a chance to pull myself together and get back to the hostel. Then ended up playing wii mario kart with some australians and some americans which was cool. Then yeah, I had the orientation the next day and hey presto last night very late I arrived back in Bangor having done 1,000 words of my essay on the train. Woooh! Now I just have the other 1,500 to reel off pretty fast lol. But ah well. Then later I am going down to London and staying over at the Generator hostel before I have my interview at 8am at the US Embassy. Considering I have to be up at around 6 to ensure I am at the BUNAC office by 7. It's going to be a long day. Especially seen as I will only be getting back in Bangor at like midnight or later. But I am already starting to feel a bit of a travelling buzz. Especially after orientation the other day. It's filled my with confidence to go out there and really make a difference to the kids lives that I will be working with.
Right I guess I really better had get down to my essay now...
~Rach
Monday, 20 April 2009
Monday, 6 April 2009
The Kick Off
Hey everyone!
First and foremost welcome to my blogspot! I thought given this summer is going to be an ultimately life-changing one for me I would like to document it and let people in on my goings on not just whilst in the states but also on my emotions in the lead up.
At the moment I am currently stressing out quite a bit, in a couple of weeks I have orientation in Birmingham and my visa interview in London which require some planning still with regards to youth hostels and train tickets. Shame about the two essays and the dissertation proposal that I need to get to grips with aswell! I never said embarking on a trip this big would be easy. I consider it a necessary challenge thus to enable me to be more capable at time management and organisational skills in the future. Aswell as being able to acknowledge that some things just aren't worth stressing too much over! A skill I really do need to be able to develop sooner rather than later.
I can't wait to get to camp though! Camping in ridge tents for 10 weeks is like a dream come true for me as sad as it sounds. It's going to be a hectic time but a time to clear my thoughts and rethink who I am as an individual, obviously whilst teaching lovely American kids why our version of "Football" is much more logical than theirs. I really hope it's going to be not only good experience but a good time to establish who I am as a person together with some of the values I try so hard to uphold.
In the past few days I have also been thinking of some travel options. So far the plan after I finish camp on the 8th August is to ride a train to Washington DC, stay there a few days, then ride a train to Florida where I will be meeting two amazing friends of mine and then flying to Minnesota to meet one of my closest yet geographically most distant friends before flying to New York and then flying home. It's going to cost a lot but it's going to be awesome. I watched the film "Jumper" today and I really started to get a feel for the travelling bug, it's just a matter of how much I will be able to fund. I aim to go stateside every other year for as long as I care to think about, but obviously I would love to go to other places too! With regards to this trip I am not too fussed about hitting every single state; it's an implausibility, but I'll be back!!!
Hope I didn't rabit too much. Post 16th June I expect things will get alot more exciting. I hope so anyway!!!!
~ Rach
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That's for a friend of mine. She knows who she is!
First and foremost welcome to my blogspot! I thought given this summer is going to be an ultimately life-changing one for me I would like to document it and let people in on my goings on not just whilst in the states but also on my emotions in the lead up.
At the moment I am currently stressing out quite a bit, in a couple of weeks I have orientation in Birmingham and my visa interview in London which require some planning still with regards to youth hostels and train tickets. Shame about the two essays and the dissertation proposal that I need to get to grips with aswell! I never said embarking on a trip this big would be easy. I consider it a necessary challenge thus to enable me to be more capable at time management and organisational skills in the future. Aswell as being able to acknowledge that some things just aren't worth stressing too much over! A skill I really do need to be able to develop sooner rather than later.
I can't wait to get to camp though! Camping in ridge tents for 10 weeks is like a dream come true for me as sad as it sounds. It's going to be a hectic time but a time to clear my thoughts and rethink who I am as an individual, obviously whilst teaching lovely American kids why our version of "Football" is much more logical than theirs. I really hope it's going to be not only good experience but a good time to establish who I am as a person together with some of the values I try so hard to uphold.
In the past few days I have also been thinking of some travel options. So far the plan after I finish camp on the 8th August is to ride a train to Washington DC, stay there a few days, then ride a train to Florida where I will be meeting two amazing friends of mine and then flying to Minnesota to meet one of my closest yet geographically most distant friends before flying to New York and then flying home. It's going to cost a lot but it's going to be awesome. I watched the film "Jumper" today and I really started to get a feel for the travelling bug, it's just a matter of how much I will be able to fund. I aim to go stateside every other year for as long as I care to think about, but obviously I would love to go to other places too! With regards to this trip I am not too fussed about hitting every single state; it's an implausibility, but I'll be back!!!
Hope I didn't rabit too much. Post 16th June I expect things will get alot more exciting. I hope so anyway!!!!
~ Rach
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That's for a friend of mine. She knows who she is!
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