I am officially one week away from leaving for London and I am as prepared as I am going to be. I have started packing my suitcase, well, gathering up the contents anyway and I am triaging through all my stuff to decide what to bring and what to leave behind. As I have mentioned before, I’m a girl who likes to have stuff and this is proving to be one of the most challenging parts of moving abroad so far. Despite all that, I think I have mostly narrowed it down to some key items, keeping in mind that I can buy whatever else I need once I’m in the UK.
For those of you interested in my packing choices (I have noticed that this is a very popular topic on other SWAP blogs), I am going with one large suitcase (the maximum size that British Airways will allow) as well as my backpack and a purse as carry-on. In my suitcase, I also have this foldable 35L duffel bag that I bought at MEC that I plan to use for inter-European travel as it is the perfect size for carry-on on discount airlines like Ryanair and easyJet.
I find it fitting that I’m writing my last blog post for 2013 on New Year’s Eve, which also happens to be my last day in my apartment and at my job. It is a very bittersweet feeling – I’m sad to leave my apartment, family, friends and colleagues behind but at the same time, I’m excited about all the new and fun things that 2014 will bring. I think that A.A. Milne said it best (via Winnie the Pooh):
"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye
so hard."
As a goodbye to 2013, here are some of my favourite pictures from the past year (with maybe a couple of older ones) and some of the people and places that I will miss:
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