January

My last month on student visa

• NYE and following days through off sleep cycle. Rubbish for days.
• Trying to figure out life, with all stress and no sleep.
• Finally bought plane ticket home, but learned it was on Jess's birthday... oops.
• So spent the month doing little things to celebrate her birthday every day leading up to it
• Then on her birthday I surprised her with the knowledge that I'm coming back in March
• More "hangouts" and such. Had first kiss with guy and then he decided we should just see where things go while I'm away and or when I get back. Bit tough but right call I think.
• Kew Gardens - beautiful. Wish I had explored it earlier, when we went we only had part of a day. Oh well.
• Other fun, lesser known galleries. Fun exploring with Molly and Karyn
• Molly moved back to DC, had a murder mystery dinner party thing very fun
• My fantasy football teams did rather well, 5th and 3rd places respectively
• Went "life drawing" with (Scottish) Karen and Jess - interesting experience. Think it was good for me though I'm not so good at sketching. 
• Lumiere in London, lights and fun. Too many people and we didn't see anything truly "spectacular" but it was a fun way to spend an evening with friends
• Oh, went to Cambridge again!
• Other fun adventures
• Flew to Long Beach, met up with Camilla's friend who was going to the temple, so I was very exhausted and just waited in the visitor's center, then over to Camilla's for two nights, friend and the beach. Best way to have to say goodbye to London I guess. :)
• Home again, family picked me up, there was some scare about a shooter in the parking lot but I didn't see anything, so could have been fake.
• Since then, I've been hanging out with my family, a few friends, and chatting with the guy back in London, and trying to both keep busy so I don't over think things, but also trying to figure things out, so far I'm just spinning wheels I think.