Holidays

The last eight months have not been good ones. The only saving grace is that the worst is over - and now the only thing I can think of is the holiday I wanted to be having halfway through this year. Even though that's out of the question, I've organised a majority of the trip to occur during the summer holidays! In some ways this is the best thing, anyhow,as It gives me more time to make sure my Mandrin is up to scratch (learnt some with Poppy, and my friend in Jinan will undoubtedly yell at me for not practising more next time I talk to her), and to revise my French and Japanese. I suppose I should outline my trip so you know what I'm talking about;

I intened to fly out to Vietnam (One my my "Honkie" friends has family there, so I'll stay with them and hopefully be shown the sites with them) and stay there two weeks. From there I was going to fly to China (Alb's has to decide where she wants to show me still!!!) and stay two or three weeks there. Move onto Korea for a week, then catch the Trans-Siberian across into European Russia, where I'll stay for a week (my Grandmother - the one that watches Youtube - want to do that with me). I'd them meet Poppy in Germany for a week,then visit England (where I will stay with my farming family) for two weeks. I will probably be out of money by that stage, as well as out of time, so will be force to make the expensive trip home..

I don't really want to think about how much more I'll need to save, but thinking, since my original budget was $8,000 for Vietnam and china, adding in another $630 (if I don't intend on eating) for the Trans-Siberian, and another 8 or ( thousand for Europe, I don't think I'll be sleeping for the next six months. But again, what's life without its little hills?