'Leave your friends and family / Fly an airoplane across the sea'

I'm a recent convert to Zoey Van Goey, and they sum up so nicely what I'm going to do with a year of my life :) Not to harp on or anything but AMSTERDAM! I've pretty much got everything sorted I think, which isn't particularly easy or fun unless filling in endless forms is your idea of fun. In a matter of days, ok so it's over 20 days, I'll be studying international law at VU and trying hard not to spend all my money on what Amsterdam has to offer. By that I mean the amazing music scene, which is why I chose to go there, just so you know.

I'm flying at some god forsaken time in the morning which won't be nice, but with a boy on my course, which will be nice. Whilst it would have been exciting to arrive totally alone in a new country with two suitcases, wait did I say exciting no I meant terrifying. I expect a wonderful journey where nothing bad happens, no plane delays please, budget airlines and the damn French owe me this much after the last lot of flying I've done. Yes I'd love to sit at the Ibiza airport for hours and of course you could top it off nicely by loading us onto the plane and making us sit there whilst the plane remains grounded, excellent, what great fun.

My accommodation for the year is the cheapest you can get. I received a very honest email for the Netherlands explaining that they wanted to knock it down, but we could keep living there for a while and not to mind the building work from 7am till 6pm. Oh joy. Still I really couldn't care less what the room/kitchen/bathroom is like. As long as I get good flat mates. By good I mean fans of David Mitchell, into similar music and with a preference for rum and cider not gin and beer. I'm willing to let the David Mitchell stipulation go, I'm not really sure how internationally famous he is...yet.

Obviously my course will be extremely hard and I will want to die a little bit inside each time I attend a lecture. I picked two good modules, one on the citizenship of Aliens and one on war crime trials. Other than that I choose stuff I thought would look good on my CV, so you know it's going to be boring. 

Right about now I should probably shut up about Amsterdam, go and don my bow tie and waistcoat and happy, friendly smiley face and head to work for a day of catering fun :) I joke, it will be hell. Actually in all fairness I've only done two shifts for HCS since I've been back and I've enjoyed both of them, so I have high hopes for this one. Hopes which will probably get dashed, but I'm trying to be a glass half full kind of person these days.

Ally 

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2 weeks and 3 days...

...until I move to Amsterdam. For a year. Excellent :)

Sadly, until then I have no money and therefore very little life. I've spent an entire day browsing websites looking at clothes I can't afford and trying to decide what new haircut to get. Thrilling. It must be almost as boring reading about it as doing it. Except reading about it is over much sooner, I've been doing it since I crawled out of bed around 1pm. 

All I want in my life, besides an end to testing eye-liner on rabbits and a training contract is this:

It's absolutely perfect. I can think of 1000's of occasions to wear it. Dear God/Father Christmas, can I have it now please?

I did actually do one interesting thing the other day, I saw Inception. Which I absolutely loved. I won't ruin it in case you don't know the ending, but fucking hell is it annoying. I'm convinced he wasn't though. Wasn't watch? Watch the damn film and you'll find out. 

Oh, I also think I may be dieing. Not in the we are all dying slowly as each second goes by way but a I think my brain might explode way. Great. P.S God, see I'm dying, can I have the dress first though? Some people might call it a few headaches, I call it a possible brain tumour. I am in no way melodramatic or a hypochondriac, just so you know.

I should probably stop taking up Internet space now. I absolutely, almost definitely, won't write again until I have something to say. That's a massive lie, I'm enjoying it. 

Over and Out

Ally

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P.S I've been reading a military novel, I'm not just a massive weirdo. The Kindly Ones. Check it out, it's amazing.

Inaugural Blog

Right then, I need to get some very important details off my chest. Firstly, this is entirely Miss Brown's fault. I was going to go for a run. Instead I'm rambling into the abyss. Secondly, I'm apologising right now in case I come across as a massive twat, this is entirely possible, and even probable. In fact I think I've already managed it. Thirdly and finally, if there are any real human beings reading this, I salute you (at this juncture please try to imagine a friendly sailor rather than Mr Hitler).

Well I think that's the important disclaimers done. You'd think a Law student could do better. How about this? 'The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in any way'. That doesn't really work either, if I actually had an employer I wouldn't be bored enough to be writing this...Bugger it.

That's all. Please await the next instalment with baited breath. However, be prepared for the fact that I might find something new to do and it may never be forthcoming.

All my love,

Ally

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