Hello my special blog friends (:
So as the title suggests, I have yet again fallen behind on
this whole blogging thing and therefore I shall need to catch you up with all
those super cool, exciting, once in a life time, change your life things that
have happened to me since we last talked… but then that would make for an incredibility
boring blog as it would end right here. Nothing has happened that I would say I
would slot into any of the categories above… but more dull, mundane stuff has!
First, things first… A little update on this whole losing of
the weight situation that I find myself in, I have now lost my 65th
lb (which for anyone working in stones is 4 stones, 7lbs). I know this is
probably a disappointing figure for some due to the fact that the last time we
talked I was going on about the 60th lb… but I have to be totally
honest with you, I am content enough with the slow weight loss, it was going to
happen eventually… you can’t continue to lose the weight as fast as I was in
the beginning.
Now, it is yet again that time… its end of the university
trimester time. I have to say I feel strangely in control this trimester which makes
me a very happy bunny! I passed everything last trimester and so we are on
target!!
“Do you have any plans for the summer?”… “Got any holidays
booked?” … “Going away anywhere nice?” …. These questions seem to be getting
asked ALL the time! I have to be honest with you my little bloggies, I have an
AMAZING summer plan… that is if it all works out! I my friends want to do Camp
America soooooo much! I have applied, I have been interviewed, I have been
police background checked, I have paid a generous sum of money and I am praying
I get placed. As of just now my application is in that really, I mean seriously
nerve racking stage of RTP, which for anyone that is not obsessed with spending
the WHOLE summer in America, meeting new people, working with children and just
generally having a B.L.A.S.T, it means Ready To Place. This is something that I
think a lot of people are totally unaware of. So you spend ages filling out
applications, uploading pictures, creating videos and perfecting essays… and
then you get super excited because you are successful and you are getting an
interview! You get all dressed up (and if you are anything like me), get there
really early … you spend about 1hour being interviewed and then you hear back…
you have been SUCCESSFUL! Now by this point you are already researching what to
pack, how much spending money to take and the best things to do post camp… and
then you realise that no one wants you yet. Now this is not some sort of
x-factor sob story, this happens to EVERYONE, but it is still incredibly nerve
racking! I have been in the RTP stage for 2 weeks and I can honestly say I check
every few hours to see if someone wants to give me a placement. I had a dream
last night I got placed in a camp in Michigan… and then my alarm rang and I could
have cried! I have worked so far this year to get the grades that I need, to
get the money to enable me to do this and I am seriously worried that I won’t
get placed… so if I could ask everyone a massive favour? Please cross your
fingers for me! PLEASE?!!!
I don’t really know where to go now with this blog as the
items listed above have kind of taken over my life in the last couple of months…
Weight loss, University and duh duh duh Camp America!
So I am going to make this last paragraph, really unbelievably
original… just kidding, I’m going to tell you about what I have done today. Today
has been a rather strange day if I am honest! I woke up almost crying over the whole
Michigan placement dream… and then realised that I had slept in and that I needed
to be dressed and ready to leave in 20mins. This isn’t due to the fact that I have
a super early class on a Monday, it’s basically because my parents have lost their
minds and have decided to re-decorate the WHOLE house. Today was the start of
this transformation and the first thing to hit the Lewis house you may ask? Windows.
Yes, today every single window in my house got taken out and replaced. This is
something when you think about it, doesn’t seem like that messy a job… believe
it is. Thankfully my parents are awesome and got them to do my window first so
that I could have my room back to normal ASAP and get back to studying. So what
did I do all day, with no university and a whole lot of studying? That’s right I
went to Starbucks… And I am talking serious Starbucks time happened. I was
there for about 6 hours, drank about 4 grande soy lattes and took advantage of
the surprisingly fast free wifi that they provide. (If we are being all
technical here… it was actually the shopping centre that Starbucks is located
in that has the super fast WIFI… Starbucks wifi was as always a little
lack-luster.) About an hour ago, I decided to be a trooper (which is a rather Scottish
phrase meaning good person) and head home! I came home to a house in carnage…
but my room was done! So I hovered it, moved all my furniture back to the way I
like it, opened my laptop and boo… here we are!!
So till next time my special blog buddy…
Love Yasmin Christina
xx
