Jessica's Gap Year

Feliz Navidad!

Hi, I'm sorry that I haven't yet been able to start blogging, but moving about has been so hectic (that's travel for you) and I haven't been able to stay on a computer for long enough. I'm thinking I will be able to - once I get to England... unless I travel to an internet cafe in the next couple of days.

I'm currently in Mexico City (in Edson's Grandparent's house), but later on today we are travelling to Edson's Aunty's house.

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas... and.... just in case I don't get the internet before then... have a Happy New Year as well.

Love Jess

First Post

Oh wow... this feels so much more awkward than I anticipated.Hmm, I hope that I become accustomed in due course to this relatively new science known as 'blogging' ... because right now I feel like a prize idiot. In fact, I feel like a loony, nutters, deranged, mental, whacked, barmy idiot who likes talking to themself.

Moving on! Geez, I hope the rest of my blogs don't turn out like this. I was originally inspired to create this after I discovered that a past member of my school was completing a GAP year in the very same school in which I will be working. He had a travel blog (though with his own domain name - how lucky) for the year, and I really enjoyed reading his entries. I get the feeling, however, that this blog will become more of a personal-journal-style blog than an informative one... we shall just have to see how it turns out. Perhaps no-one will read this and I really WILL be talking to myself!

My travels begin in just four days time when I catch a plane from Brisbane International Airport to the USA, namely Los Angeles. I stay in the 'City of Angles' for three days before catching a plane down to Mexico City where I am staying with a friend I met in Japan. On the 29th of December, after experiencing a Mexican Christmas, I fly off again to London, where the weather will be quite noticeably colder. I spend New Years Eve/Day in Brighton/London, and after that I fly to Edinburgh. I have to stay one night in a hostel/B&B before I am picked up by my school on the 5th. And then the work will begin ;-) Oh, and from here to London I am not travelling by myself (I won't be the cause of my parents' heart attacks just yet), but with my good friend, Tamsin.

I could blab on for hours about all the preparations and expectations and considerations but it is already getting into the wee hours of the morning (so Scottish already =P)) and my Dad has already come out once to tell me that I should get some sleep. So, due to my time constraints, I will mention only one more thing:

TWILIGHT IS RELEASED TODAY!!! I have already booked my 1:00pm ticket and I am SO excited. Seriously, I have been counting down to this day - and I know it seems absurd to be this enthused about a movie as I am about to embark on possibly the most exciting year of my life... but... I can't help being a crazily romantist teenage girl, can I?

=)