Goodbye UK

I'm leaving the UK and I'm feeling deep... after about a month of feeling absolutely panicked, today I feel calm. I know that I'm ready for all of the incredible things coming for me - I am in no way under the illusion that I know what I'm doing, but knowing how much I'm going to learn is exciting!

Absolutely buzzing for the adventure; the happiness, the exhaustion and the missing home but the feeling of complete and utter satisfaction that I know I'm going to feel as I fall asleep every night under my mosquito net in the middle of Uganda (on top of all of those feelings someone also commented that I'm going to feel like a princess under that princessy-mosquito-bed-curtain... so that will be nice too!)

It feels great to have a chance to do something meaningful while travelling Africa, while learning new things, while making new friends and while generally just having the best time of my life.
While I could be beginning a university course that allows me to plod through the next three years and discover nothing more about what I really want to do with my life, I'll be in Uganda, hopefully finding out where to go from here! Project Trust has given me the opportunity to explore and be proud of the life I'm living now. so I'm thankful for that.

Some final-farewell messages for the people reading:-
Friends and family! Thank you for all of your support in getting me to this point! Thanks for just being great and I'll miss you lots! In particular to you; Mum & Dad, Connor, Dylan & Lauren - you my favs, I'll miss you the most! Awesome Foursome - stay together, stay awesome. I count everyone from TDA as my friends and family, you've all been the best.
To my sponsors and supporters, I am very grateful for the support that you've given me that's allowed me to embark on this adventure! I am very much hoping that I will make you all proud of the donations that you've made to really make a difference to this school and these children!

I'LL MISS YOU!

I'm unsure of the next time that I'll be able to write so if I unexpectedly drop off the blogger earth please send me a letter! I would love to get them! My new address is as follows!

Miss Bethany Crook
Rd. Archbishop Kiwanuka Memorial Primary School
Po Box 107
Mpigi
Uganda

I assure you that I'm going to try my very best not to do this... so maybe just send me a letter anyway!

The opening slogan of our training course was that 'a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step', and with that in mind I am ready to take it all a day at a time! Excited, terrified, readyyyyy.

I'm moving to Uganda tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One Month Away

It's the first of August and I'm exactly one month away from my Heathrow flight to Uganda.
That means that this is the last month that I will spend in the UK (for a whole year)
That means that this months top up, is the last time that I will put UK credit on my phone (for a whole year)
That means that I have only 4 more Sundays in the UK (for a whole year)
And only 14 more shifts at the Greyhound Stadium (hopefully ever).

As well as being a significant day for surreal-realizations like these, today I also completed my fundraising mission! After nine months of letter writing, presentation making and raffle ticket selling, I don't feel that there are any words to describe how good it feels to be done and able to peacefully prepare myself for the year ahead! There were definite low points where I was unsure if I'd ever hit my total, but pushing through those are how I know this is really what I want to do!

31 days and £0 to go!
See you in a month Uganda!