Con con contiki

OK how GAY is the foreign internet!! I swear that I have written about 14 blogs (well 3) and the stupid computers cant connect to blogger or some crap and I have lost them all!! Grrrr
Anyway Contiki was ultra fabbo. I had the greatest time ever and I wish I was still on it!! I have seen so many things and been so many places now its amazing. The night I got back there was a thing about Italy on the TV and they had a bit on Verona and the balcony of Juliet and I was all amazed as I had been there, was a bit surreal.
Otherwise I will try and update what I did and the like when I am able to with pics and everything else. I am currently in a hostel and while the internet is free, I am not sure how to add pics on without saving them to this very dodgy computer. Hmm.
Anyway, I am all settled in London now....I got a job before I left on the Contiki (thankfully or that would have been another worry) and just a couple of days ago I got a flat sorted out too. Its close enough to my work that I can walk to work (obviously not when it is raining though!) and is in a kind of residential area so I wont be tempted to go out drinking every night. Phew. After contiki I was thinking that I may have become an alcoholic....thats thanks to all the Sangria in Spain....that stuff was like sweet sweet alcholic juice, mmmmmmm.
Anyway nothing much else to report here.....I love getting e-mails telling me whats been happening so keep me updated! I start work on Monday so I will have to have something to keep me entertained at work and replying to e-mails is perfect. I have only had one bout of home-sickness and that was more just missing familiar faces rather than New Zealand itself!! Sorry!!
Oh well, England is in the grip of world cup fever and thankfully they won tonight so I expect everyone to be in a good mood tomorrow....fingers crossed. Oh and I am supporting England too by the way!

London Town!!

Well it has been a while since I have been here and this is my first update...how slack am I?? I arrived in London yesterday and so far its very big and a bit scary but otherwise OK. I have been up in Scoatland until yesterday...kinda all over the place but it has been cool. Very relaxing. Who would have thought that today I am sitting in an uber modern internet cafe and just a few days ago I was feeding lambs with a bottle!!
I have been spending a lot of time with one of my cousins and she has managed to get me into a fair bit of drunken trouble so that has been fun. We went out on Thursday night in Glasgow and went to about 8 different bars. The funniest part of the night was that I could understand what everyone was saying very well (thanks mum) but no one could understand me. I think sometimes however that may have been a ruse to just get closer to my face. At one point this dude I was talking to had so much trouble understanding me that he asked the barmaid for a bit of paper so I could write it down!! I am sure I am not that foreighn but apparently so. Went out last night here in London and no one had any problems understanding me but that might be because I didnt speak to any actual English people.
I dont have much planned for the few days I am here...have to get my bearings today and figure out where I have to go on Monday and Tuesday to meet the job recruiters I have been in contact with. Will need to buy an A-Z for that.
I have just noticed that this internet cafe is full of really old couples. Mental I am like the youngest person here.
Nothing much else to report....I have a ton of really nice pictures but since I can't figure out how to get them onto this computer I will have to leave them for the moment...shame as they are all really nice sunny ones!
I am actually feeling quite crap today but that has just been since I arrived in London so I think it might be something about getting used to the atmosphere here. I think I am off aout again tonight but will see as I am not overkeen about figuring out the underground by myself in the dark...especially as I have no idea which areas are the dodgy ones.
Oh well on Wed morning I am off on my trip....I am excited but also a bit nervous....I doubt I will be able to update much from there as I wont know the languages but I can try!

Last Minute..

I cannot believe that I leave today....I am just so excited! Packing has been a total living nightmare...just shows that I am not that hot at Tetris. In the end I had to go and buy another suitacase so I have 2 giant suitcases, both fully expanded, both around 30kgs. I did have a idea of having a backpack for hand luggage to leave my hands free but that hasnt worked out either and I have a holdall. This only means that I am going to have to buy not only a sleeping bag when I get there (for the Contiki) but a bag and a backpack as well! Thats so annoying as I have so many here!
Otherwise my last day at work was good....barely got much work done but did feel very celebrity like as everyone wanted to talk to me and wish me well which was really nice. They gave me a greenstone pendant which I LOVE (but sadly I am not able to fit the lovely box into my bag!!) and some vouchers....if anyone from work reads this I bought a merino wool jumper from Esprit which I love.
Seeing everyone and seaying goodbye has been a bit strange as I dont feel like there is no one I am not going to see again! Especially as so manypeople seem to have travel plans at the moment...if you all follow through 6 of you will be with me before the end of the year and 4 of you will be here in NZ! So mentalist.
I promised you all fame so here are farewell party pics so now you know you are on the internet (in a good way)