Sitting In Heathrow

The Special Day When I Travel To Cape Town

Right now I have found a quaint little 'Grande Brasserie' with good music and a coffee. Despite the women opposite me eating like a half starved chimpanzee, I'm enjoying the atmosphere. And I'll tell you what: I've had a wonderful morning. My family have made me feel very special. I had my favourite breakfast (PANCAKES!) and a sunday roast dinner to send me off right with the tastes of home.

With 2 hours to wait until my flight I feel as though a blog is a great way to kill some time reflecting about my already emotional day. Having to wave goodbye to my family was tear-jerking. 
So far I have passed with flying colours. Which is slightly out of character for me. I'm not some control freak, detail driven individual who plans and organises well. Which is probably why I'm so good at seeking help and I'm definitely going to keep on improving these skills over this year.

Let me define flying colours: I haven't forgotten anything, I didn't lose anything the day before (actually, I did have to fish my wallet out of some dirty chinos. But I promise I knew they were there..) and I've ticked off items on my checklist to buy at the airport! I now have a way to charge my various devices ( that could have been a disaster) with a funny looking South African plug and a new USB Apple lead. And I still had change left over for a coffee.

I've also been thinking about how I am going to manage to keep doing the blog and send my family and friends updates. So to maximise efficiency we now have a Instagram account: boywriteshome 
and at least 2 family whatsapp group chats. Now all I need to do is find a decent wifi cafe in Cape Town and we're golden.

I also have a couple ideas for organising the blog too. In the subheading I'm going to list the area I am going to talk about, to minimise the waffle. And they're going to be divided into 3 categories: 
1. Real Talk - where I will try to share some of my experiences and pearls of wisdom that I have picked up over the summer so you don't make the same mistakes as me!
2. Heart2heart - if I ever get emotional and want to talk about my family at home or something special I witnessed while volunteering this will be it he subheading.
3. Catch Up - this will be the majority of posts when I tell you about my day to day exploits.


And that's about everything I wanted to say today! Next time I will be reporting back from Cape Town, South Africa! How surreal! I'm still waiting for it to hit me, maybe it'll happen when I arrive, or on the plane journey? Speaking of which I best go catch a flight..!