It is now almost T minus one week to go, and I dont feel im in any way ready to leave the good old UK yet! I havent even left and packed away my stuff in York yet, let alone thought about packing for the trip. So what do I still have to do.......try and learn a bit more chinese I suppose would be good, and go on a shopping supree in Southampton town to get all the bits that I am probably missing right now! Oh and have my last vaccination would actually be quite ...

Finally Acceptance! After filling all the millions of forms that have come through the door in the past few months, another set arrived! These were the ones I had been waiting for, for a while now and they were the confirmation that I actually had a place. Now I could actually set about booking flights which I had been wanting to do for a while now. So I decided after a long deliberation about prices, and flexibility and all the dull stuff like that, I decided...

And so it goes the story of the journey that takes me 10000miles across the other side of the globe, to where very people from the country of Great Britain have ever stepped. But as this country grows and grows in terms of its economical status, it may be that more of us un-cultured english may venture further afield. Of course I have been before, but this time its for 9 weeks, to live, work, eat and travel a country that will be basking in 30 degree celsius he...