Developments

  Apologies that it has been so long since I have done any writing here. I have been super busy with organising my travel plans. Today for example, I have spent £700 on a trekking trip to Machu Picchu and got angry with confused.com for constantly shutting down my insurance page.

  Much is as always, changing. I can't even contemplate the changes I am going to go through with my life this year, from work to living in Wales to 40 degree weather and then diarrhoea, kangaroos, drinking, mugging, the hall of fame, spicy food, diarrhoea again, mountain trekking, crying hysterically, angry English football fans and then I come home and go to university. Stop for a breath anyone?

  I feel so completely calm. Excited more like, and nervous of course but this will give me that last push into being a grown up that I need. Then I can look my brothers in the eye like I've had a life as well and achieved something off my own back. I can admit to myself that I am no longer lazy.

  This trip is one I'll tell my children about and I can't even believe I almost missed this opportunity, when it's going to change my life forever.

  I've been working on my Gap Year Bucket List today, and come up with some good ones. I'll release it nearer the time.

  Thanks for all the people who have been checking this still on a daily basis, means a lot to know that people are even marginally interested in what I have to say.