Desperate v. Selfish?

This is my sixth day away from home and already I'm facing a dilema. How often should I contact home? If I were to email every day or every other day, would that seem desperate and like I'm not getting on with life and enjoying myself and all I can focus on is getting home? I dont want that. If I send out an email to everyone more than once a week (or two weeks) will people get bored of what I'm writing? Will they get annoyed if I dont write every week? Do I write seperately to everyone a lot, a little, just send out block emails that are slightly more impersonal? Where do you draw the line between being desperate and being selfish and not writing? I know I've got loads of time to sort this out. Maybe its coz I'm still on h0liday and dont have anything to do so I've been in contact with home a lot. I'm assuming that will change next week when I'm actually in Colombia!

I did yoga yesterday. I enjoyed it. It was tough on my stomach muscles but I like excercising, I wish I had the discipline to do it more! I used to be really healthy and active and then England happened and that all went down the drain. Maybe I'll set myself a few targets while I'm away:

1. Make sure I read my Bible EVERY day. I'm hopeless at doing it, and then wonder why I feel distant from God at times. Theres a simple solution - give up the battle inside to not read it and just do it!

2. Excercise reguarly - I'm sure living with 100 kids will give me some excercise and my arm muscles will probably improve from picking up lots of small children.

There we go, I'm gonna get off my lazy arse and start doing things. I just have discipline and motivation and initiative to do anything - I know fine well what I should be doing, I'm just hopeless at actually doing!

No alcohol for 6 months? I can do it, I know I can! How much do I sound like I need an AA meeting? Fact is I dont. But I do like to have a drink. I'm glad I cant get drunk for a long time, only good can come from that! But a cold beer at the end of a day is nice. We all know it!

Crazy travels? Yes.

It's been a hell of a week. In a good way though. I had one of the most exhausting emotional days that lasted 25 hours (with still time to sleep after that) - basically I woke up at 3:30am last Friday, left my family, boyfriend and best friend behind at Newcastle Airport, flew to Heathrow and then to New York City (and this is still only 2pm due to time difference), decided it would be best to try and kick jet lag as soon as possible so stayed up till about 11:30pm, which was 4:30am English time. So I was up for 25 hours and there was still a full nights sleep after that...bizzarre!! I had a manic day in New York City and we missed our train to Philadelphia and almost missed the second train. Its all good!

If you want to see a beautiful sunrise, get on an aeroplane at 6am and make sure you're sat next to a window facing which ever way the sun rises (I cant remember now...must be East right?)

I spent 3 hours in New York City and I bought an NYPD jumper. I love it.

I'm having a lot of fun with Julie at her uni, while shes at classes I'm hanging around doing not a lot but its good.

I've got a bad cough/cold thing - the illness I am plagued with every October and have always had to take a week off school - I should have known better than to plan a trip across the world!

It's amazing how excited Americans get over the fact that I am English and have a different accent to them - I never knew England was so exciting! I always knew it was great, but didn't know people could gush so much over meeting someone from England!

Julie is far to nice to people - we went and visited 2 of her friends last night, Bob and Joe, and they did have one of the messiest rooms I've seen in a long time. And she cleaned it! She set to and picked up everything, sorted everything. I think she's insane! And gullable because they let her do it :-) But we love her anyway! I told them they're lucky to have Julie as their friend instead of me coz I would never do something like that for them, I have enough trouble trying to clean my own room!

I'm definetly ready to get to Colombia. I want to see it, meet the kids, smell the smells, hear the sounds, sense the culture. I'm enjoying this week and its nice to have a break, but I'm ready to get there. I've been waiting for so long, and now its just 4 days away! I'm so excited.

Lost

I love the series Lost. It's slightly far-fetched, but I love it. Partly because of one certain actor who is in the cast, but thats not the main reason :-p I've watched most of it in the last 2 weeks, since I bought it on dvd because I was gonna be away for most of it, I think they're only up to episode 10 or something on tv here, so I bought it. How convenient though, that it was the people who crashed who did crash! I said to a mate the other day that I was only getting on the plane to Colombia if there was a hunter, a doctor, a fisherman, a construction person, people who know how to shoot guns, an Iraqi soldier who knows all about interrogating and technical stuff like transmitters, a few muderers (just to spice it up a bit) and a Dominic Monaghan. Then I know I'll be fine on the island, if we happen to crash. You've gotta look out for these things. Haha.

4 days till I leave...so much to do....scary...