time's ticking!
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round-- Charles de Gaulle
Updated a ton of stuff on my quilt New sotm - please visit and congratulate the talented arwen!
The last exam is my Synoptic paper for English, which is on June 23rd. That's the day I'll be rushing down the pub to forget about everything with my mates. I am scared that I'll spend the whole summer worrying about my results, then get disappointing ones. Like last year, I feel a bit doomed (although not as much, as I turned out to have done well last year!) and am unsure about getting into my chosen universities. I really hope I do, though - I want to live up to my potential.
Exciting news, though - I finally got the details for my gap year in China t'other day!
I am really, really excited. I'll be teaching English at Yibin University Teachers' College, where students aged 16-23 are studying to become primary school teachers. I've been talking to some fellow lattitude volunteers who are currently in Yibin, just coming to the end of the same placement. Their names are Polly and Liv, and they've been mega-helpful! I've asked them lots of questions, undoubtedly been very annoying, and they've given me wonderfully detailed answers to all of them. They really eased my mind about teaching in a university with older students, too - I thought I was off to, like, a middle school or something, so hearing I was about to be a university lecturer scared me shitless! But Polly and Liv both seem to be having a wonderful time - in fact, they're somewhat reluctant to leave!The two girls seem to get along swimmingly. This is reassuring, as like Liv my housemate-to-be, Madi, is also from Australia and I did wonder a little what it would be like living with someone from another country. It sounds silly, being that Australia is hardly that different people-wise to England, but still - being a huge worrier, I was inclined to fret just a little. I haven't so much as spoken to Madi yet, but I do hope that we shall become as good friends as Polly and Liv seem to have done!
Speaking of China, it's not long to go now! Less than three months left, in fact - jeez, doesn't time fly?
I've been looking at stuff to buy to take with me, like a large enough bag to hold six months' worth of my crap. Also, I'm getting lots of injections done to protect me from horrible illnesses whilst I'm out there - in fact, I'm having about eighteen. Good thing I'm not afraid of needles, eh?
| Update by Sarah @ 23:41, Thu. June 05 2008 |
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