On Tuesday I'm running away from home! Only this time I intend to take just a bit more then a packet of crisps, a jumper and Hamley (my favourite stuffed toy) and I'll have to go a bit further then the end of the drive to get where I'm headed! On Wednesday morning at 9am I'll arrive at Beijing airport with only a rucksack brimming with Lonely planet books, Factor 50 suncream and enough Malaria tablets to start a pharmacy to my name, ready to start my 2011 adventure.
I can't quite explain how I feel about this prospect at the moment. Surreal is the best way to describe it. To think that I will be 3000 metres above sea level teaching Tibetan orphans English this time next week is slightly hard to digest. Only 10 days ago I had a London flat, a job most girls would kill for and an element of security in my life. My lifestyle for the next 8 months will hold no resemblance to that of the past 2 years. What lies ahead is yet unknown and whilst this fills me with dread it also fills me with inexpressible amounts of excitement.
This blog will be the soundpost for those emotions I am yet to feel, the sights I am yet to see and the experiences that are yet to come. I cannot predict what these will be though I suspect they'll exhaust, inspire and astonish. The only thing that I can predict with any certainty will be the shade of my skin - this pale nomad will remain just that! Only a few welcome freckles will act as the physical evidence of my adventures on my return but this blog will remain as a solid account of my time away. I hope I do it justice.
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