This week I've been focusing on getting all the last minute jobs done. Amongst other things, such as getting my visa sorted, picking up teaching resources and saying goodbye to family and friends, I've been buying presents for my host family in Nepal. I wanted to get them something typically 'English', so I bought a teapot, complete with cheesy English pictures - Tower Bridge, Big Ben, that sort of thing. Little did I know it would turn out to be the most expensive teapot in the world...
I'd been scouting gift shops in Soho for a few hours (not the most joyful task, unless you've a particular love of London snow shakers, union jacks boxer shorts and model telephone boxes), and ended up buying a few things in one of those shops on Oxford Street. To my dismay, they have charged me £141.70 instead of the fourteen odd quid I owed them. Hopefully I'll get it back - you can get an awful lot of chapatis and tibetan hats for that where I'm going! Lesson learned...
Anyway, I'm off to Heathrow tomorrow to start the big adventure - feeling a mixture of fear and excitment... Hopefully my next update will be from warmer climes. Thanks for all the good luck emails, cards etc - I really appreciate it. Keep in touch! x
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Good luck, Amelia! Thinking of you and excited for you.
L x
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