Perhaps it was the fact that over the last week I have hardly gone to bed before 3am because a lot of the time I have been talking with a few flat mates, but I’m actually starting to enjoy it a bit, although not as much as back in the good ‘ol days – I don’t think anything will ever be comparable.

I guess the experience has been one of weirdness and education, before the ‘final’ day I’d built up an idea of negativity around the whole thing, it would be lonely, weird, boring, scary and unnerving, these are just some of the things that I had thought about the whole idea, at the time Lloyd made a good point;

“It’s hard to ignore the hurdles which have occurred while trying to get to where, deep down I guess I want to be”

I couldn’t have put it better, it wasn’t just the physical aspect that where the hurdles, moving away was only 1 part of a much bigger predicament, there as also the mental aspect of it, preparing for what was going to become the single biggest upheaval of our lives took a lot to get your head around, there are something’s that I’d personally thought (and hoped) would never change, some things seemed sacred, but in the end it was only an illusion of perpetual affairs. But deep down it was what I wanted, the chance to learn something new, the chance to meet new people and engage in new things, experience the new surroundings, and hopefully eventually find happiness.

I’m glad to say that the ideas that I had in my head weren’t at all correct – in the back of my mind I knew they wouldn’t be, I had to think them, it was all part of the process, I guess the thinking behind it was that if I thought everything would be bad, anything more would be good, I knew what I was doing – and it worked, nothing was how I’d imagined it would be, it was better, and therefore everything was made the tiniest bit better for it.

In a strange way, everyday feels different, even though at this early stage, there is already a vague schedule to the things that go on, a few of them being ‘Midnight Tesco’s’ on a Monday night / Tuesday morning, and The Bi Weekly comedy night, somehow, even through the devastation left behind from the move, some things have become as regular as clockwork.

I guess some of the things that have made it easier are attributed to certain things that we said we would do when we got here, more information will be released soon but behind the scenes we have been working on a little project that if done properly, should open up some very useful channels for us, and hopefully lead to some interesting times.

There are advantages to being this close to the capital of the UK, there are things that you can do because there is less of a mileage gap, sometime next week Me, Lloyd and Shane are going to go to the Mac Expo, we thought while we were up here, we would go along – just ’cause we could, hopefully we’ll get some free stuff and some good photos, and who knows, maybe we’ll get the change to blog from there, although I’m not a big Mac fan, it’s always nice to go and have a look at some new technology. This is just one of hopefully a number of similar events that we go to while we are here, after all…WE CAN.

I’ll leave you with this final thought:

Dum spiro, spero