'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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