Preparing...

It's just under two weeks till I hop on a plane for the UK. I'm still getting things ready and trying to decide if I should start packing now. I feel overly responsible starting so early. But it might be a good idea to stop forgetting anything important. I put all of my savings onto a cash passport in GBP's today. It's worth just under half now, which is kind of depressing.

Pierre and Toy leave tomorrow morning for Melbourne as he has a job interview with Adobe so tonight is a family night of steak and Mahjong. Should be good apart from the fact I am missing Duncan's 20th birthday party at Cactus Jacks tonight. Oh well.

We had an Australia Day party at Daniel's yesterday. Just a day of beer, cricket and snags. It went pretty well and most people seemed to enjoy themselves. I had a great time and wasn't affected by alcohol at all. Yay.

Kickoff

New year, fresh start. I have revamped and cleared my blog ready for a lifetime of travel. First up I'm heading to Taunton, England to do my fourth year placement for uni. I am staying with my Nanny Margo and my aunts Caroline, Sue and Liz and probably with various other relatives on the weekends.

While this might be fun and all, I am quite bummed that I leave the gorgeous Daniel behind. He's taking off to Japan for a year of study an AWESOME experiences. Sooooooooo jealous. Sigh. But I get to go see him in July.

I don't leave till Feb 9, but until then there are a number of outings and social events to attend as well as HEAPS to organise. Leaving the country is just not that easy anymore.

I was on the Thorn Tree Forum earlier and saw a post by a guy saying that he has to attend a conference in London in two days and found out that his passport expired yesterday. I was going to reply "idiot" but about 14 other people had already said similar things. Sometimes you just wonder how people get by on their own.