Yay I Remembered! More Travels!

So being back at home I have managed to remember everything that I want to 'achieve' shall we say. (In the near future, not in life) At university everything kinda gets lost in the whole bubble that you live in and you live in your own little student world where reality is far from your brains train of thought. Back in London I have remembered what it is I want and have just read my travel journal from the summer and found something that summed it up..

"I can't explain it. My Parents can't understand. Lucy can kind of see it but thinks i'm a bit mental. It's just the setting and the lifestyle. Happiness and being content. Some people have that from being successful in their job or by being in a relationship or doing things that give them enjoyment and fulfilment. I won't be settled in my mind until i have achieved what is the one thing that i want to do the most...."

And that is to move abroad for an uncertain amount of time. Not for too long as to ruin wherever it is I end up but long enough to experience what I seem so adamant that I need to do and feel like I am missing out on. MEGA CRINGE.

Anyways just the day before i re read that I had planned my next travel trip. Although trips will be taken in between - (France/Spain to see Sarah, Ireland to see the fam, casual trip to Thailand in the summer...just to keep summer consistent) this is the main one and the biggest one yet!

So this is the plan I sort of planned: China, Tokyo, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam...and then back to Thailand for a certain amount of time. I plan to take at least four months doing the first seven but possibly more. And then four months in Thailand, possibly more. I want to do my TEFL in the year after I graduate for uni, the year that I will spend working to save for this. I want an ample amount of money for this trip as usually that is not the case and they all end up not really the way they were intended..some for the good, some for the bad. But its not likely i'll be doing this big trip again so might as well make the most of what I can at the time!

So depending on where I like, where I want to stay and if i can get work who knows how long it will last! I'm super excited to start planning it all! Even though it is like two years away :/ but good things come to those who wait!

For now I have to concentrate on finding a job in Leeds to save for this summers trip to thailand. I can't wait!

"He who binds to himself a joy

Does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sunrise"

- William Blake

November Rain

I thought it was about time that I got back to writing and what better way to do it with a nice brand new blog!
So November rain has come to visit and insisted on outstaying its welcome! At least there was no November snow! That my friends can hold off for a long while!
November has bought the cold, the flu and days full of surprises! Heres a recap of November as tomorrow's December we can see what's to come....

• Bucket loads of YO! Sushi! Yes, nomnomnom! Me and Sarah have been making the most of the student discount for some black pepper squid and katsu curry! Only A fiver each for us poor students and the fact that it's a the top of Harvey Nick's in Leeds makes it that little bit more fab!

• Random nights out leading to the most unexpected events. Ending up at a house party with the "axed x factor" star Frankie Cocozza. What can I say, lots of free Vodka, lots of free kisses, waking up at 1pm the next day still drunk and laughing so much the vodka nearly made another (this time unwanted) appearance.

• Changing times. Getting a grip. Becoming a library whore! Four days in a row for hours on end! Which eventually, I am convinced, led me into the depths of this evil cough and cold. Overworking!

Leeds is a lovely city but the most dreary landscape in the rain! I'm counting down the days till home time! It's currently 9 sleeps! When i get home I plan to drink Yorkshire tea (Ironic I know) eat every item in the fridge, preferably if its from M&S or Waitrose and then watch the X-Factor in HD in front of an open fire. Simple things are all that I wish for. Then will come the decorating of the christmas tree with the Fam! Floss always puts it up on the 5th, her birthday, but for the first time in ten years (yes ten! I don't know where those years have gone) she is waiting for my arrival home so we can do it together! My excitement is that of a ten year old but i do love christmas so, so, sooo much!!

xxx