Dear All, I think I have caught up on my blog entries now. I have just realised that I have been gone just over a week (I hope you've missed me)! I am feeling much happier than last Sunday, when I left. I have the occasional wobble when I'm tired, but I'm very happy the majority of the time. I'm getting used to hostels and I've even done my first load of washing! they have dryers as well so I stuck it all in there when it came out the mac...

Dear All,Even though this entry relates to my time in Victoria, I am actually writing this one and the previous New York one from Vancouver. I arrived a couple of hours ago.Victoria was really really nice but it was a little too much like England for my liking. In fact, it was just like Torquay but much, much nicer and without the chavs. It was lovely and clean and I felt safe walking around on my own. The female dorm in the hostel was 18 beds and the mens dorm w...

Dear All, I wrote this blog just now but the computers went down and I lost it - how annoying! Loads of people have their own laptops and just hook up the free wireless link. I feel a bit left out but the problem is, I don't think I could carry a laptop. It was last day in New York and it was raining! I caught the metro down to Times Square. I've mastered the Metro system really well now (after a couple of errors!). I loved Times Square because there...

Dear All, Well I left! I left Exeter on the National Express for Heathrow at 6pm on Sunday. It truly was one of the hardest days of my life! I really was expecting it to be easy and I think that was why it hit me soooo hard when I woke up on Sunday (also because I hadn't slept much because I'd been out on Sat nite!). I blubbed alot of the way on the bus. It's weird because I absolutely knew that I was doing the right thing, but I still felt really really rubbish...