Last Days Here

It's going to be pretty hard to say goodbye to everyone on Thursday but thankfully, I'll get to have some fun with them beforehand. This is what I have planned for the next six days:

Saturday: Paintballing with my friends and then dinner with Andi and Blair and Andi's Mum that night
Sunday: Lunch with the extended family and then Mum is taking me and Andi and Blair out to dinner
Monday: Last training(!) and hang at Dads place that night
Tuesday: Last day of school! Maybe a shared lunch in there somewhere
Wednesday: Mad rush to finish packing and Andi will come stay the night
Thursday: Pick Blair and Jazz up from school and head out to the airport.

So it's going to be a busy few days, and I'll be eating A LOT. I donated blood today because I may not get to do it again for a while, because their pernickety about travellers to Europe.

Badass

The excitement is building, I must say. I was looking through my school book and I could see some calendars I drew of the days left to my exchange and the days were in the 50's and 60's. Now we're down to single digits and the reality of it all is kind of hitting home. In a good way of course.

I e-mailed my host sister too, just telling her how excited I was to meet everyone, and she replied that my room and books are all ready for me! They'll be picking me up from the train station in Pau at 2p.m on the 8th - it's going to be great to arrive to a big family, ready room with things all ready.

No real reason for this post, just getting used to recording everything here. If this is a terrible blog please tell me, I am writing this for you guys to read, if it's useless I'll try to fix it :)

Also MASSIVE shout out to the brilliant, and good-hearted Daniel, who is Mrs Mockridges second favourite :)

Stay super,
Holly

8 DAYS OUT

So it's down to eight days now, I should really have done this at a nice even number like 10, or even tomorrow when it's a week but I feel like posting now. So you're getting a post now.

I'm getting closer to being ready, I think. My next week and a day here are going to be HECTIC, but massive thanks to everyone who's helping me with all that. Special shout outs to:

Andrea: best friend and just freaking kudos for putting up with me and helping me out
Blair: as above, you two are my freaking wonder team, I'm going to boast about you two so hard
Eleanor: I don't really thank you as much as I should but your advice has been really really helpful
Avnit: You're just so supportive and I can talk to you whenever and I think it's great :)
Josh: for watching that movie with me that time, and making me laugh


MUM: your name is in capitols because you have been one of the two biggest helps so far. I know you're freaking out about all of this but you've been so amazing, and so helpful, and I haven't thanked you enough yet but I will one day, you're a total legend.

DAD: same as above, and thank you for being so level-headed about all this I might have lost it without your help :) And for helping out with all the emergency shopping and last minute things and all the support throughout this entire, GRUELLING process


So, that was feelsy. There'll be a lot of that when I go too, ready yourselves. On the bright side of things:

1. I got my Visa!!
2. I got my itenerary and travel wallet!
3. I'm almost done with all my credits
4. I'm almost done with all my shopping
5. They'll be playing the Hobbit on the plane.

More later, that's the gist of what I'm going through at the current moment, I'll try to do more regular updates now that things are starting to happen :)

Stay Super,
Holly