Five Things I've Learnt in 2018

2018 has been a whirlwind of a year and in many ways my favourite year. So much has changed, so much has happened and so much has been learnt. I am so thankful for this past year, the opportunities I've had and the way it has shaped me as a person. This is not to say that this year hasn't had its difficulties, oh it has, but that has just enabled me to grow more as a person. 

I'm definitely leaving this year a different person to how I entered it and I'm truly happy with that growth. 

Travel Blues - How to Shift Them

Oh the dreaded travel blues, we've all had them. You have the best time away travelling and you get back home, reality hitting you like a ton of bricks. Not fun. I must admit in recent months I've had serious travel blues but I'm trying ways to help tackle them a little bit. In this blog post I'm going to talk about a few things that I'm doing to tackle the blues. 

The Lake District

I had the opportunity to go work with 'troubled' teenagers from Essex/London area in The Lake District and obviously I jumped at the opportunity. Working with kids is something that really does make my heart full but I'd never actually worked with 13/14 year olds so I was a little bit apprehensive. 

Summer Camp: Working at a Day Camp

When I originally applied for Camp America in November 2017 I had this whole vision of what my summer would look like, log cabins, bunk beds, camp fires, big lakes and most definitely working on a residential camp. I'd never really explored the option of working on a different style camp, such as a non-residential, but low and behold that was where I ended up. 

A Fresh Outlook for This Blog

A lot has changed over the last 10 months and by a lot I really do mean A LOT. 10 months ago I was going into my final semester at university studying Education and Childhood Studies with no clue what the next 10 months would hold for me. Fast forward 10 months and I look back and think, "How did all of this happen in 10 months?" 

So let me break it down for you what happened... 

New Year Resolutions - 2018

Okay, so I'm currently sat in bed with a cold and a mega sore back (maybe I'm officially a grandma?), which is not the best of endings to 2017 but it has given me a lot of time to reflect on the past year. As a result, I'm popping it all in a blog post for you all to read through. 

Top Five Things to do in Amsterdam

Me and my best friend recently took a trip to Amsterdam for my 21st birthday and it was the most amazing week full of food, exploring and lots of walking, trust me a lot of walking will happen, my feet were throbbing! We only had three full days in Amsterdam so we knew we wanted to fit as much as we possibly could in the smallest amount of time possible but we struggled to dwindle down what was the best things for us to do so I thought i'd make a blog post for anyone else who may want an idea and what they can afford to give a miss and what they should definitely check out!

Where Have I Been?

Once again I had a blogging mishap and possibly neglected my blog for a considerable amount of time, lets just be grateful blogs don't need food and drink because I highly doubt my blog would have survived.