What a turnaround!
I'm writing this on my mum's sofa in Blackpool, my life at the moment consists of studying youth and community development at Uni and working full time with young people. Everyone is going through a rough time with work, nobody of us there no whether we have a job in the near future or not, and I also recently split with my fiance.
So here's how it happened, when I say 'it', I mean, how I came to be writing a blog and getting ready to set off for the beautiful country that is Cyprus in about a month time. (!)
A couple of weeks ago, I made a decision, I'm going to go full time at Uni next semester, I've pissed about too long waiting to go (no thanks to them that pay me) and I also thought about looking for something to do over the summer. looking through the web, as you do, I came to a site that had summer jobs overseas. I only applied to a couple on the off chance that something might turn up.
Got an email asking me to go to Putney, South East London for an interview (at five days notice!)
Went to the interview. absolutely blown away it went so well. I nearly made the woman cry with my story of one of the groups I've run. This is the exciting part! The interview finished at just gone five this Thursday, then I went into work as usual on Friday and check my emails on the off chance there was anything interesting going on. They had emailed first thing to offer me the job! hehehe!
Now I have to assemble my resignation, finish up my projects at work, pack, see my nephew and niece who live in Grantham, ahh, the list goes on!
That's the start of my story for the blog.
I have a huge sense of nervous excitement, yesterday when I got the news I just felt soo happy, I couldn't believe it. It was like winning the lottery and it made me feel like I was drunk (I wasn't, that happened later on) People say that god works in mysterious ways and I think I agree. The last few months have been dire and I have been up and down so many times that I've not known who I am. people have commented that I'm not being myself, I'm not with it and I see now what they meant, I can see it in my work mates at the moment, like they've got a leak in their soul and their whole life is dripping down their leg into a puddle at their feet. I really hope they turn out OK, they deserve good jobs and happiness, they work so hard and have done for years and are some of the best people in my life.
Here's to Cyprus, not a new beginning but a new chapter in my interesting life. keep reading.
x
