The Countdown Continues...

In today’s countdown news: it’s 30 days (exactly one month) until I leave!! I’m starting to get just a little bit excited… And also a tad impatient!

After having been busy with practical preparations for several months, it feels strange to only have a short list of small jobs left to do. Sometimes I worry that I must be forgetting something important. Surely there is something that I ought to be doing! So, not knowing what else to do with myself, I have busied myself with Christmas preparations.

For the first time in my life, I have completed all of my Christmas shopping, wrapped every gift, made my Christmas cards and begun writing the cards before the beginning of December. (I’m usually the one complaining if I so much as see a Christmas decoration or hear a Christmas carol before December!) I must admit that I shall be glad to escape the pre-Christmas stupidity that seems to descend upon our shopping centres in a manner beyond all reason!

So I’m not sure how I’m going to occupy myself during the rest of this month until I leave, but I guess it won’t be in preparing for Christmas. Perhaps it will include more adventures such as the one my friend and I had today, during which the most frequently used phrase was, “What could possibly go wrong?”!