I would have never had thought this time last year that in a few weeks time I would be flying off to India for what I hope to be an adventure of a life time. I definitely wouldn't have been thinking of going anywhere on a plane alone...how things change....
This time last year I was in a really good place. I had just graduated with a 2:1 at the University of Northampton and I had been accepted to do my Postgraduate Certification of Education for Primary teaching at the University of Plymouth. My long term partner had finally got a job again and we were moving into our first adult home together. I couldn't have been happier!!
2015 came and all that happiness was taken away.... For reasons out of anyone's control I was stood at Heathrow putting my life on a plane back to India for the indefinite future, because of this I had lost the security of a 2nd income and very quickly had to move out of our little home...
I had gone from being the happiest I had ever been to depressed in a very short space of time... but I had to keep going... I had to get through tireless efforts to get to the end my PGCE because I had made the decision that as soon as I could I would go to India and that day is finally coming!!
Although I had been so determined to get through the last 6 months so I had the chance to be with my love however little time, I quickly realised that this trip wasn't just for that. Over the years I had fallen in love with the idea of India, the ability to capture beauty in the most unusual places. I'm not brimming with knowledge about India but I am also not naïve to the culture and lifestyle differences I am going to face. I have heard every unsettling tale about India and yet I have not been put off the idea of going at all.
This trip gives me time to get away from everything I know, to experience a whole new lifestyle and culture that I had grown to love through my Jai, to get away from an adult life, a career and being stuck for a little bit longer. This trip is for me, to find myself again...