So, I am just about set for the big trip tomorrow, just a few things to throw into my bulging case in the morning at 4am! Oh my, I do not like early mornings but with luck, my usual little alarm clock Tara will be screaming at 4 as usual, so I will have less difficulty getting up!!! I am going to miss her so, so, so much but I can honestly say the crying in the night phase is one I am hoping is over by the time I come home!!!
I have spent the last few days, quite honestly, packing and unpacking again and again. I am so bad at packing! I have told my mam that if I do ever decide to go away again, she has to persuade me to go to a tropical destination so all I have to pack are flip flops and bikinis- though I am sure I would go over my allowance even then! I have taken drastic measures today- I took loads of stuff out of my case which was weighing in at about 35Kgs and put it in a box and posted it to myself in Italy!! Seriously, I have! I just cannot do without all of my stuff!!! I never knew I was so materialistic until going to Prague when I bought an extra suitcase of luggage not just extra weight! But it is true, I am, I like my home comforts and my own things.
I know when I get to Italy I will have nothing to wear!!! And I will def look terrible in all of my clothes next to Italian women, and men for that matter, and I will be able to buy things in the shops there and so on but I cannot help it, despite telling myself I would be better this time I know I will be standing at the check in trying to chose the aisle with a man or motherly looking woman to plead with that I am going for 6 moths.... and paying £21 for every 3Kgs in excess!!! There goes my spending money!!!
But, I am heading off in the morning, heading off to a new adventure, a new home and a new job. I am a bit nervous but mostly looking forward to it now.
I can't wait to see my new room and meet the teahers at the school, and of course my students! I love teaching so much, it is somethng I really am passionate about and enjoy doing so how can I not be excited! I can't wait to have some fun times to tell you about... I will write again soon to let you know how I am settling in (and how warm it is! I hope).
Until then, goodnight and goodbye, miss you already...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Sunday, 24 January 2010
In my home town
How can I have a blog which remembers good times and laughs without mentioning crazy nights out in Winlaton? For those of you who have never been, I probably would not reccommend it, seriously I love it but only because I have been going there since before it was legal for me to go there, I have worked in a bar there and when I go I go with a group of friends who just make it great!
Winlaton, to the untrained eye, is a dump! It is full of men who spend more time in the Turf than their own house and girls who seem to have left their clothes in the house (OK now I am old I can say that, once I was one of those half naked girls...)and the streets are full of fighting yobs and screaching girls pulling hair over some boy and left over pizza boxes on the floor... yes, it is a great place! A great night out!
But I really do miss Winlaton when I am away and always yearn for a blue WKD in the Highlander or Queens and to sing along to the Karaoke in the Commercial! I have had SO many fun nights out there it just makes me happy to think about it. Some great times: St George's Day when we stacked up test tube shots, New Years Eve's spent in the Cannon and Queens, birthdays, Karaoke sessions, large spring rolls, curry chips and egg friend rice, last orders and lock ins, fights and kisses and working in the Vulcan!
In recent times I have seen a lot of changes in Winlaton, not to the decor, or the clientele of these wonderful establishments, but to the way we drink now. Phil stll thinks he can drink like when we were 20 but he is ALWAYS asleep by 11.30 and though he still says we should drink all night, he can't sit up straight enough not to spill his drink by midnight! We still occasionally do shots, but I really pay for it the next day now, how I wish I did not get hangovers, like when I was young!!! Now, we are much more sensible, before you know it we will be in the lounge in the Highlander and we already sit on the 'old side' of the Turf from time to time. Yes, we are growing up but we still fit in to Winlaton, where seriously anything goes... as long as you are local!
How funny it was when Paul was asked, seriously, you are not from round here, are you?! He looked scared! I will never forget that!
Winlaton has a specal place in my heart, it is sad to see things change, the bakers is closed, the sandhill chip shop is now Galaxy pizza and there is a huge big CCTV camera set up in the middle of the street but some things will not change; the people, my friends and the fun times we have when we are together, we laugh, we cry, we get take away and we always come back.
Winlaton, to the untrained eye, is a dump! It is full of men who spend more time in the Turf than their own house and girls who seem to have left their clothes in the house (OK now I am old I can say that, once I was one of those half naked girls...)and the streets are full of fighting yobs and screaching girls pulling hair over some boy and left over pizza boxes on the floor... yes, it is a great place! A great night out!
But I really do miss Winlaton when I am away and always yearn for a blue WKD in the Highlander or Queens and to sing along to the Karaoke in the Commercial! I have had SO many fun nights out there it just makes me happy to think about it. Some great times: St George's Day when we stacked up test tube shots, New Years Eve's spent in the Cannon and Queens, birthdays, Karaoke sessions, large spring rolls, curry chips and egg friend rice, last orders and lock ins, fights and kisses and working in the Vulcan!
In recent times I have seen a lot of changes in Winlaton, not to the decor, or the clientele of these wonderful establishments, but to the way we drink now. Phil stll thinks he can drink like when we were 20 but he is ALWAYS asleep by 11.30 and though he still says we should drink all night, he can't sit up straight enough not to spill his drink by midnight! We still occasionally do shots, but I really pay for it the next day now, how I wish I did not get hangovers, like when I was young!!! Now, we are much more sensible, before you know it we will be in the lounge in the Highlander and we already sit on the 'old side' of the Turf from time to time. Yes, we are growing up but we still fit in to Winlaton, where seriously anything goes... as long as you are local!
How funny it was when Paul was asked, seriously, you are not from round here, are you?! He looked scared! I will never forget that!
Winlaton has a specal place in my heart, it is sad to see things change, the bakers is closed, the sandhill chip shop is now Galaxy pizza and there is a huge big CCTV camera set up in the middle of the street but some things will not change; the people, my friends and the fun times we have when we are together, we laugh, we cry, we get take away and we always come back.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
New Year New Adventure
So, welcome to my blog, the Blog of Laughter and Forgetting.
For those of you who know or care I sort of stole the title from one of my current favourite authors, Milan Kundera, a Czech writer I got to know before deciding to go to Prague last year...
I chose the title because this year it feel that it is important for me to get back to my true self. I want to write more, I want to travel more and I want to learn more, and most of all I really, really want to be happy! I have not been laughing as much as I would like to recently, crying way too much and I want that to change! I want to be the carefree, smiling girl I was not so long ago.
To do that I need to let go of so many things in the past. There are memories I will treasure forever, things I wish I could remember more clearly and friends and family who will never ever be erased... however, I need to stop thinking about the past so much, it has tied me up for the last few years and now I need to forget the bad things, the silly things, the insignificant trivial details and memories which have kept me awake one night too many! I want to forget the past that holds me back, or at least learn to live with it.
Through this blog I hope I will be able to share all of the funny things I see and do, share the happy times I have and in doing so remember those things more vividly and, hopefully, I can look back and see the change happen. I hope you are in for the ride! I can't promise I won't go off the rails at times, have a 'rage black out' or two but I am going to try!!!
As I write this I am planning my next big adventure in life, I have a job in Italy, in the town of Catania in Sicily. I will be leaving in only 9 days and have so much to do... it is all very exciting and just a little bit scary! I left Prague thinking I wanted to be home, and I have loved being here with my lovely family and wonderful friends, they have helped me so, so much! But I have learnt some important things since Christmas 2009, most importantly I have learnt that the people who matter, really matter and care about me, will never forget me just as I will never forget them, they will be here when I come back and they will be there for me whenever I need them just as I would be for them. I will be back home because I love it here!
So, I will try to write often and will try to keep laughing but I will always remember you!
Claire x
For those of you who know or care I sort of stole the title from one of my current favourite authors, Milan Kundera, a Czech writer I got to know before deciding to go to Prague last year...
I chose the title because this year it feel that it is important for me to get back to my true self. I want to write more, I want to travel more and I want to learn more, and most of all I really, really want to be happy! I have not been laughing as much as I would like to recently, crying way too much and I want that to change! I want to be the carefree, smiling girl I was not so long ago.
To do that I need to let go of so many things in the past. There are memories I will treasure forever, things I wish I could remember more clearly and friends and family who will never ever be erased... however, I need to stop thinking about the past so much, it has tied me up for the last few years and now I need to forget the bad things, the silly things, the insignificant trivial details and memories which have kept me awake one night too many! I want to forget the past that holds me back, or at least learn to live with it.
Through this blog I hope I will be able to share all of the funny things I see and do, share the happy times I have and in doing so remember those things more vividly and, hopefully, I can look back and see the change happen. I hope you are in for the ride! I can't promise I won't go off the rails at times, have a 'rage black out' or two but I am going to try!!!
As I write this I am planning my next big adventure in life, I have a job in Italy, in the town of Catania in Sicily. I will be leaving in only 9 days and have so much to do... it is all very exciting and just a little bit scary! I left Prague thinking I wanted to be home, and I have loved being here with my lovely family and wonderful friends, they have helped me so, so much! But I have learnt some important things since Christmas 2009, most importantly I have learnt that the people who matter, really matter and care about me, will never forget me just as I will never forget them, they will be here when I come back and they will be there for me whenever I need them just as I would be for them. I will be back home because I love it here!
So, I will try to write often and will try to keep laughing but I will always remember you!
Claire x
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