Last Night

Sydney is cold and drizzly, the coldest start to summer in 50 years. The real summer starts tomorrow as I board a plane for the hot, steamy tropics. In just over 24 hours I will be a world away. It all seems not real, that tonight is my last night at home, that I will not return for so long to this room I've been so pent up in during the HSC. Of course I am excited, if not slightly nervous, of the months that lie ahead but still I think the brunt of the emotions will hit tomorrow when it is actually happening. My first flight to Melbourne leaves at 9.35 in the morning with a 3 and a half hour stop over at Tullamarine Airport. Oh the joys of flying Jetstar, somehow it is cheeper to fly an hour and a half south to go north. Another joy of flying Jetstar will be the absence of food, so I have packed my own lunch and dinner. I get to Bangkok at 8pm tomorrow night, and the real adventure begins!