I felt nothing but excitment and curiousity when I woke up this morning. There's so much out there for everyone and yet we live in our own little day-to-day bubbles doing nothing out of the ordinary. Today was the first day I embark on my year in Australia and hell I can't wait! My dad and I left the house around 15:30ish to go pick Laura up from work because she was coming with us to the airport - from Beau Bells to LHR here we come!! We stood around and waited ...

Tuesday 17 June 2014. So it's just a little over a month now before I embark on the next chapter of my last year as being a moody, stressed out teenager. Australia is swiftly approaching and in 32 days I would currently be on route to Hong Kong (22:10 departure from LHR) so I should be sitting comfortably watching a film right now, or eating. Or both - the latter seems more legit! Anyway, lets get back to the blog. Since my last entry I've managed to get my Blu...

Thursday 8th May 2014. Since my last blog over a month ago, a lot has happened. Not only was I faffing about trying to do a hundred and one things at the same time, I was also trying to sell some old things of mine on eBay and continued to work throughout the busy Easter holidays!! We'll just get the admin talk out of the way with - I printed off all the documents I had previously been sent and whenever I had free time I would happily sit down to read and re-...

Ok so it's now a little over 3 months until I leave for Australia and to be honest nothing much has changed since my last post. I've more or less got my DBS Police Check sorted (I just need to get it signed) and my Visa is all ready but I can't send it off yet until the end of April/ beginning of May because of the rule they have for sending it off no more than 3 months before you depart. But anyway, enough with the administrative side of my Gap Year process, I ...

Ok so, it's a little while until I actually leave but I'm going to share my journey from the total beginning, and that means I'll blog my story before I've actually stept on the plane! There's still a mountain of preparation I need to do e.g. applying for my visa would be a good start! My Gap Year placement was set up through a British charity organisation called Lattitude Global Volunteering, and like many Gap Year placements you have different stages of interv...