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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