Now just a week left to go and I’ve already started packing. Those who know me well will be much surprised to here this, as my packing’s usually a frantic last minute job that ends in me almost missing my flight and forgetting the things I need the most, but I think it really reflects how I’m feeling about things right now. The past few weeks I’ve spent so much time worrying about how much I will miss all the friends I have made in Hong Kong, and how I’m having such a great time here that I never want it to end. While half the people have said just not to go, which was out of the question, the other half were saying that as soon as I got on that plane I would forget about everything here and have the time of my life. To the latter of which I would respond that I had no doubts about having the time of my life, I was just sad to let everything here go.
So for the last few weeks, that’s how I’ve been feeling. The past few days however things have changed a bit. I think I’d been feeling that way for so long that it’s kind of brought on a premature sense of closure to this period of my life. Now I feel like I’m ready to move on. I will always remember this as an amazing part of my life, and I will always keep in touch with a lot of the friends I have made here, but I feel like it’s over now and I just want to get on to the next phase.
Plus Hong Kong is freezing right now. There is no heating. All this weather really makes me want to do is hide under my duvet. I’m pretty sure I was a bear, or some other hibernating creature, in a past life. Now the thought that in a weeks time I will be lying on a beach, baking my skin away in the heat of the Australian summer….who can blame me for being excited about getting out of here! All the amazing things that I have planned to do are starting to dawn on me as well, and now I can’t wait!
Of course I will make the most of my last few days in Hong Kong, see my friends as much as possible, do all the things I still haven’t got round to doing in Hong Kong yet…but now it feels a little bit like I’m in limbo, waiting for everything to begin...