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jaalaHi! Remember me?
Living at home with my parents and sister has been a huge adjustment after camp. These couple of months (more on that later) will also be the longest I've lived at home since 2002. All the self-sufficiency of living in a city (or even at a camp) is completely gone, of course, because I don't have a car and the only places to which one can bicycle are little drug and convenience stores. There's the library though... hmm, maybe I should do that some time.
So yes, the months. As previously tentatively considered, I am planning on returning to the UK this year to use up some more of the months on my working holiday visa. (I have already informed the university that I'm taking the year off.) Previously, I'd intended to leave in September or October but after my time at Camp Towhee I'm hesitant to skip the reunion in November. (It does seem a shame to sacrifice two months for the sake of one day though, because my once-in-a-lifetime (literally) visa only lasts until May 2007.
As for location, after much consideration and deliberation I think I've settled on Edinburgh, at least for a while. While I'll miss the familiarity of Cambridge (to which I intend to return at some point), my friends there,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tea_cantata and co. easy access to southern England and the continent and English culture in general, I'd like to try living somewhere where I can make use of the BUNAC services and social events. Quite a number of people (even cab drivers!) have recommended Edinburgh to me as a place that's got the benefits of a big city while at the same time being more friendly and less expensive than London.
At any rate, I'd better decide pretty soon how long I'm sticking around. When I was still definitely planning to go to the reunion, I discovered a bunch of nifty things to do to occupy the intervening time. I'm already signed up to volunteer as a greeter at Doors Open Newmarket and I'd been considering a few courses or lessons (e.g. French, First Aid, Bronze Medallion, Alexander Technique).
Living at home with my parents and sister has been a huge adjustment after camp. These couple of months (more on that later) will also be the longest I've lived at home since 2002. All the self-sufficiency of living in a city (or even at a camp) is completely gone, of course, because I don't have a car and the only places to which one can bicycle are little drug and convenience stores. There's the library though... hmm, maybe I should do that some time.
So yes, the months. As previously tentatively considered, I am planning on returning to the UK this year to use up some more of the months on my working holiday visa. (I have already informed the university that I'm taking the year off.) Previously, I'd intended to leave in September or October but after my time at Camp Towhee I'm hesitant to skip the reunion in November. (It does seem a shame to sacrifice two months for the sake of one day though, because my once-in-a-lifetime (literally) visa only lasts until May 2007.
As for location, after much consideration and deliberation I think I've settled on Edinburgh, at least for a while. While I'll miss the familiarity of Cambridge (to which I intend to return at some point), my friends there,
tea_cantata and co. easy access to southern England and the continent and English culture in general, I'd like to try living somewhere where I can make use of the BUNAC services and social events. Quite a number of people (even cab drivers!) have recommended Edinburgh to me as a place that's got the benefits of a big city while at the same time being more friendly and less expensive than London.At any rate, I'd better decide pretty soon how long I'm sticking around. When I was still definitely planning to go to the reunion, I discovered a bunch of nifty things to do to occupy the intervening time. I'm already signed up to volunteer as a greeter at Doors Open Newmarket and I'd been considering a few courses or lessons (e.g. French, First Aid, Bronze Medallion, Alexander Technique).
