mass email, pre leaving: "it's almost time"
hola everyone
this is probably one of the last emails before i head off...so i thought i would let you all know a little bit about what is going on in the next month or so.
i hope you are all doing well at school, work, life in general. this has been a pretty miserable year for keeping in touch, hopefully a habit we can all break in the future.
as it stands right now, i am still in london, but not for long. it has been a long year in some respects, but has truly flown by in the long haul. i am not ten days away from having my degree in philosophy! and to think just four short years ago i was dealing with nhs hell and trying to figure out where i could go to school! i look back on it now, with many different feelings. my time in boston my first year was well spent, and i met some interesting people and learned a lot about what i want out of life, and what it is i am looking for. i think making the decision to change schools was one of the hardest to make, all mixed with leaving home, missing friends, and going back to the great white north which hadn't been my home in so long. now, i am glad to have done so. my time spent here in canada has been the most beautiful time of my life, (well, not including driving in the mountains in vermont...that beats everything...) and i have learned more than perhaps i was ready for. but if i hadn't have come and swallowed my fear, i never would have met the amazing people i did. i think the transition was really made by my friends i made here in london, who are now scattered all over the world...i appreicate you guys more than i could ever try to explain in these words. i have learned that my passion is philosophy, and it something i never want to give up. there is such vigor to life when you wake up every morning and learn something new about yourself and they way you thought you saw the world. i now know i will never know anything, and i am learning to find comfort in this.
as for the next step, i know you are all sick of me talking about it. but on april 22nd, i fly from jfk to tokyo to bangkok to phuket, where i will be living for a year. i have a job teaching at a school on the island of phuket...i am going to be teaching my own kindergarden class of five and six year olds in an ambitious immersion program which i haven't even begun to prepare myself for. i have read more or less every book about thailand, and i still feel like this is never going to make me ready. to be totally honest, i have spent the past week thinking about how i can get out of my contract and stay here in the fetal position sucking my thumb and crying to my mom. but, this isn't going to happen, i know i want to go, but at this point it seems as though there is a lot going on that i am going to be missing. i think this is a fact of life though...in coming here i miss out on life with my family and friends back in the states, and in staying here i would be missing out on life in thailand which i know is going to be a wonderful experience. it really hit home when my great aunt died last week...with my grandparents in their last years, i can't help but feel selfish to be taking all this time for me...and not staying around to laugh with them. it's simply hard to swallow right now. i had the same feelings before moving to montreal, and we all know that was marvelous. this is a little bigger scale than moving to montreal though. there is one other girl going from canada who is 25 and from regina, who seems to be quite lovely. we are planning on meeting up the first weekend in bangkok and getting to know each other before going to a training week in hatyai, before going to phuket to teach. oh hell. i dont think i should be teaching...i feel like i was just in ms. batten's first grade class learning how to tie my shoelaces and colouring everything pink, and i had a bizarre fetish for bunnies. oh how life has changed! i think if i didn't have feelings of nausea and nervousness, i would be highly underprepared and ignorant. i expected these feeling to come, but not with the tears and screaming! haha.
so, now to the nitty gritty...i am leaving london next saturday, april 10th. my parents are coming to london and insist that i will be able to fit everything that has furnished practically an entire four bedroom apartment in two cars...one of which might as well be a clown car. before i leave i have three essays and two exams to write...so it is really getting down to the wire...if i do not burst into flames before they get here, i will be good to go! after i leave, i am going to new york to my parents for a week, and then the next thursday i will be going back to the homeland.....vermont. (i know no one really cares about the details, but i am letting you know in case you're going to be where i am, and we can get together) in vermont lydia and i are going to do things old school style....wine in the woods, checking out the pretty dartmouth boys, and breakfast at the moutain creamery. my father is working in vermont right now, and going back to new york on weekends, until we sell our damn house! i think owen is going to be changing back to woodstock union highschool sometime around the time when i am there...oh the many moves of the burtch family. and then, da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa.....back in new york sunday, and then off to freaking thailand that thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is slowly making me insane.
at any rate, i would love to see as many of you as possible before i get over there...which i dont know if it is that possible. if you're in vermont or will be able to make the trek to vermont, i would love to see you (this means meghan, anyone in boston, etc!!!!) as for the londoners, i hope to get together with you before i leave next week. i am looking at going out on thursday of next week or friday afternoon for a few pints, perhaps at molly blooms or even going to dinner, nove nove maybe. get back to me and let me know what you're doing, and we can plan the best place to drink copious amounts of wine!!!!!
i suppose that's it...i hope to hear from you all, and you can bet i will keep each of you on the list for emails when i am in thailand...thanks again to all of you who have made the past four years pretty damn memorable. especially lydia, the montreal crew, and my parents of course.
gros bisous, and i miss you all
lots and lots of love, wherever you may be
heather
the woods are lovely dark and deep
but i have promises to keep
and miles to go before i sleep
and miles to go before i sleep...
this is probably one of the last emails before i head off...so i thought i would let you all know a little bit about what is going on in the next month or so.
i hope you are all doing well at school, work, life in general. this has been a pretty miserable year for keeping in touch, hopefully a habit we can all break in the future.
as it stands right now, i am still in london, but not for long. it has been a long year in some respects, but has truly flown by in the long haul. i am not ten days away from having my degree in philosophy! and to think just four short years ago i was dealing with nhs hell and trying to figure out where i could go to school! i look back on it now, with many different feelings. my time in boston my first year was well spent, and i met some interesting people and learned a lot about what i want out of life, and what it is i am looking for. i think making the decision to change schools was one of the hardest to make, all mixed with leaving home, missing friends, and going back to the great white north which hadn't been my home in so long. now, i am glad to have done so. my time spent here in canada has been the most beautiful time of my life, (well, not including driving in the mountains in vermont...that beats everything...) and i have learned more than perhaps i was ready for. but if i hadn't have come and swallowed my fear, i never would have met the amazing people i did. i think the transition was really made by my friends i made here in london, who are now scattered all over the world...i appreicate you guys more than i could ever try to explain in these words. i have learned that my passion is philosophy, and it something i never want to give up. there is such vigor to life when you wake up every morning and learn something new about yourself and they way you thought you saw the world. i now know i will never know anything, and i am learning to find comfort in this.
as for the next step, i know you are all sick of me talking about it. but on april 22nd, i fly from jfk to tokyo to bangkok to phuket, where i will be living for a year. i have a job teaching at a school on the island of phuket...i am going to be teaching my own kindergarden class of five and six year olds in an ambitious immersion program which i haven't even begun to prepare myself for. i have read more or less every book about thailand, and i still feel like this is never going to make me ready. to be totally honest, i have spent the past week thinking about how i can get out of my contract and stay here in the fetal position sucking my thumb and crying to my mom. but, this isn't going to happen, i know i want to go, but at this point it seems as though there is a lot going on that i am going to be missing. i think this is a fact of life though...in coming here i miss out on life with my family and friends back in the states, and in staying here i would be missing out on life in thailand which i know is going to be a wonderful experience. it really hit home when my great aunt died last week...with my grandparents in their last years, i can't help but feel selfish to be taking all this time for me...and not staying around to laugh with them. it's simply hard to swallow right now. i had the same feelings before moving to montreal, and we all know that was marvelous. this is a little bigger scale than moving to montreal though. there is one other girl going from canada who is 25 and from regina, who seems to be quite lovely. we are planning on meeting up the first weekend in bangkok and getting to know each other before going to a training week in hatyai, before going to phuket to teach. oh hell. i dont think i should be teaching...i feel like i was just in ms. batten's first grade class learning how to tie my shoelaces and colouring everything pink, and i had a bizarre fetish for bunnies. oh how life has changed! i think if i didn't have feelings of nausea and nervousness, i would be highly underprepared and ignorant. i expected these feeling to come, but not with the tears and screaming! haha.
so, now to the nitty gritty...i am leaving london next saturday, april 10th. my parents are coming to london and insist that i will be able to fit everything that has furnished practically an entire four bedroom apartment in two cars...one of which might as well be a clown car. before i leave i have three essays and two exams to write...so it is really getting down to the wire...if i do not burst into flames before they get here, i will be good to go! after i leave, i am going to new york to my parents for a week, and then the next thursday i will be going back to the homeland.....vermont. (i know no one really cares about the details, but i am letting you know in case you're going to be where i am, and we can get together) in vermont lydia and i are going to do things old school style....wine in the woods, checking out the pretty dartmouth boys, and breakfast at the moutain creamery. my father is working in vermont right now, and going back to new york on weekends, until we sell our damn house! i think owen is going to be changing back to woodstock union highschool sometime around the time when i am there...oh the many moves of the burtch family. and then, da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaa.....back in new york sunday, and then off to freaking thailand that thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is slowly making me insane.
at any rate, i would love to see as many of you as possible before i get over there...which i dont know if it is that possible. if you're in vermont or will be able to make the trek to vermont, i would love to see you (this means meghan, anyone in boston, etc!!!!) as for the londoners, i hope to get together with you before i leave next week. i am looking at going out on thursday of next week or friday afternoon for a few pints, perhaps at molly blooms or even going to dinner, nove nove maybe. get back to me and let me know what you're doing, and we can plan the best place to drink copious amounts of wine!!!!!
i suppose that's it...i hope to hear from you all, and you can bet i will keep each of you on the list for emails when i am in thailand...thanks again to all of you who have made the past four years pretty damn memorable. especially lydia, the montreal crew, and my parents of course.
gros bisous, and i miss you all
lots and lots of love, wherever you may be
heather
the woods are lovely dark and deep
but i have promises to keep
and miles to go before i sleep
and miles to go before i sleep...
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