Surprise!

It’s Friday. I have absolute no idea what time it is and I have absolutely no idea why I’m awake. But hey – I’m on a plane! SURPRISE!

Obviously, I’m posting this a day late so I’ve had enough time to surprise all the people I wanted to. But yes – I came home for Christmas. It was never the plan, simply because I didn’t think I could afford it due to my god-awful inability to save. But as it turns out, the Student Finance Wales travel cost assistance also covers an additional trip home at any point in the year, so if you’re a future Study Abroad student, make sure you look into that. But I just had to, really, didn’t I?

To everybody, both friends and family, I have blatantly and explicitly lied to over the past few weeks, I’m so sorry. The mail room doesn’t really close this week, and I didn’t really have elaborate or spontaneous travel plans throughout the entire month of December. I’m also sorry for repeatedly insisting five more months isn’t really that long. Since my flights home have been booked, the realisation of how long five months is when you’re as much of a home bird as I am has hit me hard. I haven’t seen any of the people I love for five months – how depressing is that? Props to anyone sticking it out for the entire academic year including holidays. I couldn’t do it, and was embarrassingly relieved when the possibility of me coming back for Christmas surfaced.

This is just a short little post for future me to remember just how ridiculously excited I was the days leading up to today, and how incredibly hard it was not to flail about my return with every single one of my friends and family. I hope the surprise was worth it my suffering.

So I’m giving myself a month off this blog to spend Christmas the only way I’d ever really want to. The adventure of a year abroad is brilliant and exciting and I’m looking forward to jumping back into it in January, but come on – it’s Christmas!

Have a good one!