The final countdown

I know it sounds crazy, and 2 months still seems like such a long time, but there is now officially a countdown until home time. When you think about it it is just so surreal that after such an insane year abroad, with both ups and downs, I now have an end date to it all. I've been here for 3 months now, and have 2 to go, so looking at it like that it's not so bad, but it has flown by far too quickly.

I have just booked my final flight of the year abroad, and I shall be home on the 9th July. And to be quite honest, although I miss so much about England, my family and friends, home comforts, food, my car and my job, I just don't want to leave Shanghai just yet. Don't get me wrong, its not the kind of place I want to live forever, but 5 months just isn't quite enough to do everything I want to do here.

Confirming the flight reservation took me 10 times longer than it should have because I just kept deliberating whether I should stay or what my reasons would be for staying, but realistically I'm going to have no money and noone to travel with, so going home is my only option. I double checked with so many people asking when they were leaving to make sure I was leaving at the right time, and asked really stupid questions like is the layover in KL long enough. I mean, I have travelled before with so many connecting flights that I know it is, I was just being ridiculous. And to be honest, the last time I was in KL was a 7 hour layover and that sucked, so 2hr50m works fine this time.

I do also have window seats for both of my flights home, so every cloud has a silver lining I guess.

2 months, 2 days to go.

Gaaahhh.