Yep it is that time once again! I won’t be packing up much, just my books.. I hate to leave books behind and have done it twice now. The first time I left Sydney in 2004 and then again in 2009, although the last time most of books went to good homes. This time they are coming back with me to Holland! No one here reads English and I really don’t want them to go to waste especially since I bought them all new.
It is hard to try and get work done, I am really ready to leave and am kicking myself in the head about the fact that I told my boss I would be here until the end of January.. WHY?? It is not that I am getting paid. I think it is a weird sense of responsibility that I need to leave everything is a way that someone else can continue.. And I do know this is not bad thing at all, but it just seems that I am putting myself through more stress than I need to.
Tomorrow evening I am leaving for Holland, hopefully the snow has been cleared from the train tracks and I will actually be able to get home.. While there is snow in basically all of Europe, Tours only has RAIN and lots of it.
UPDATE: I started writing the paragraphs above a few days ago.. It is now the 26th of December and I have made it home, instead of a 5.5 hr journey it took me 20 hrs to get home.. Some of these hours were spent in a hotel since after I got to Brussels there were no more trains to Holland! It was not too bad in the end but it sucked while I was on the train and every 10 min it would have to stop because of the weather.
Dad looks like a balloon, the Prednisone has made him swell up completely but hopefully he will be able to stop taking that soon so he can shrink back to normal.. He seems pretty OK with me moving back to Sydney and even suggested that it might be time to get a permanent job while I am there.. than he started talking about how we should go to South Africa again for a Holiday (He can not even walk 150 m) but yeah, why not.. I Just played along, but have definitely planned to come home once a year every year, for the time that I am away.
While yesterday was Xmas day, it was just the three of us at home and we did not do anything.. It felt like any other day, today there are some people coming over which is good since I am getting a bit bored with just mum and dad. Tomorrow I am off to Nijmegen for a few days, then going to see Judith and celebrating NYE with Conny in Breda..
Hope your Christmas was great!