Goodbye Europe….Hello Asia! I am sitting in Zurich airport Switzerland and am China bound! I have just spent the last couple of days soaking up the Italian sun which put some much needed colour back into my skin. We decided we wanted to hit up Naples for the best pizza in the world and that we did! It was a 5 hour round trip and worth every second of crappy Italian trains to taste the divinity that was Napolese pizza!! It was the most amazing thing I have ever tasted. Simple yet divine! It was a hot hot day in Naples so of course we followed with some much needed gelato! Not that we haven't had enough already! But hey….pretty much my last chance!
We had dinner @ the hostel restaurant and watched as the next lot of top deckers donned their togas and awkwardly danced the night away! They were probably just as much a mixed bunch as we were…actually probably worse! So it was an entertaining sight!
The next day meant goodbye Italy! It was a Sunday so shuttles to the airport were scarce and people really couldn't give us much valid information. So we took the advice of our trusty barmaid Roma, who we adored, and decided to flag down the blue bus across the road in the hope that we would eventually make it to the airport! That we did….after and hour and a half journey through tiny villages and fields of crops. It was a strange sensation. We weren't quite sure if we were ever actually going to make it! Sarah told me later that her work colleague mentioned in passing how far away the airport in Rome was….probably could've have mentioned it when we were trying to time our trip…but low and behold…we made it! It was a close shave but my flight ended up being delayed…lucky for me as I think I had to cross the airport 7 times before actually getting to where I needed to be!
Then it was Prague…again! I love this place but I think only because I had my boy Mike and the crew of other boys waiting to catch up and say a final farewell! Man, I am so over saying goodbye to people! It is becoming loathsome. Our 'quiet' night turned into a crazy night of bowling and American/Australian competiveness and a stint at Mike's new local. It was Sunday night so I let the boys of with an early night! Unfortunately attempts to catch up to day were skewed by a series of unfortunate events….nothing seemed to go right! And it rained….boy did it rain!! I carried a box around with me all day in an attempt to find a post office, tackle the language barrier and get it sent to Changzhou, China. I finally achieved my goal….however I am not confident my 8 kgs of extra luggage will make it from one non English speaking country to another. Oh well….life goes on! :) I will survive without the contents…maybe! I do have my only pair of high heels in there and I don't think I will be finding any replacements in Asia anytime soon!
After a mad rush to get home to mikes, get my gear and get to the airport with only minutes to spare….I got on my flight and that brings me here. Sitting at gate E35 with half of China waiting for my boarding to my new life in Changzhou, Heibei Province, China. This is where it gets lonely…not villa with TEFL, no friend to meet in London, no friend joining me on tour, no tour bus with laughs a minute, no farewell reunions in Prague and worst of all, NO FACEBOOK…just me…a classroom of Chinese kids and a hope that I am actually going to be good at this.
I have Angie coming to visit me in May! YAY! And I realised that my friend Martha is a 2 hour train ride away on the bullet. This is going to be sweet! Oh, and in six months time I will be taking off to do it all again! Nice!!
Love to you all…I am off to find water and some drugs to clear this crazy cough and cold I have. I am looking forward to some routine, a walk or two and some vegetables. Maybe that will sort me out. Right now I am more worried about being quarantined in China so I don't spread my disease. As I sit here they all give me strange looks every time I cough or blow my nose!! Quarantine is looking more and more possible. If you don't hear from me and get a phone call from a crazy asian man, it's not one of the Wodonga boys prank calling, it's probably the Chinese authorities trying to find someone to take me back and out of their country. Haha!
Love to you all….if anyone knows the tricks of the trade to be able to access facebook whilst in China…please hit me up! This is worse than death right now! :(
HJ xx
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