Still Good

Things seem to be moving ahead at their own pace at the moment. Saturday morning, shortly after I wrote my last post, I received a letter from CCUSA that I have been placed at a camp in Colorado. It's a private, independent camp (with prices to match) and the income bracket of the campers according to the placement details is "medium to high". Not quite where I was expecting to be placed. I was hoping to be somewhere in the North East - mainly just because it's slightly cooler up there, but now I've looked into this camp it actually looks pretty damn good.

Unfortunately, this placement has come through a pretty bad time. I've not been able to stop thinking about it, especially since I had to go to the orientation day on Tuesday which was not very enlightening. It was something of a distraction as I tried to revise for my exam on Wednesday, which went pretty well apart from a stupid exam invigilator who thought it would be funny to play with his mobile during the exam.

After it, I went to collect my essay for this module... and was very pleased to have scored my first First. 73% is pretty damn good for politics at University. I'd like to say it's the first of many Firsts, but judging by the other marks I've been getting, it's not something I should be aiming at as I'll only end up disappointed. But I was very happy, nevertheless. Things just seem to be going nicely.

The other bonus that happened yesterday was that Evil Housemate returned to collect the rest of his stuff. It was almost expected... we had been anticipating him coming back on Thursday, so we'd cleared the house of all the masks of his face we made. One day early was even better, because we were expecting him to come back with the other Stupid housemate who is returning today to collect his stuff. If they'd encountered each other I'm sure they would have decided to make a night of it. We've been spared that fate.

Evil Housemate packed and left, leaving behind a lot of decent stuff. We've now acquired a whiteboard, a snooker cue, two irons (why does anyone need two irons?!), an ironing board, a small 10" TV and a set of weights. Plus seven binbags of rubbish just from tidying up his room. Well, actually his girlfriend tidied up the room while he pretended to be all friendly with us.

So things are progressing nicely. My last exam is on Monday, and then it's the US Visa interview on Tuesday. After that, it's a long steady ride to the 4th of June, when I am flying out to the USA. I'll be there until at least 22nd August, but the good news is that I do have access to e-mail while at camp. I'll be able to blog-by-email to keep this thing up to date.

I'm excited at the moment, but as the day gets closer I'm going to end up very nervous. I've e-mailed the camp to find out more details, so I should know more soon.

Still haven't started the Youth Review. I'm one hell of a procrastinator. Maybe tomorrow.