HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND THE BEST OF NEW YEARS..........

Aint it gorgeous....
well, where i spent new years eve looked justlike that!!! pity i didn't bring my camera though eh? This is a pic i stole from the net of a beach on n.y.e. that's just up the road from where we were so, as the local saying goes, "same same...but different!"
of course the 31st was when all the reports and accounts etc for the year needed to be emailed to josh in france so as you can imagine, i was lucky to get out of work before midnight, i managed it! just! my friend Tristan had called round and was hangin with all the staff waiting for me to finish but by the time i did, cabin fever had taken firm hold and i was in no mood to party. so we hopped on his bike, with several bags full of goodies and booze, and a huge lantern ( a kind of big box kite with a flammable centre that floats off when lit)that was given to us by Nat, a girl that works here, and headed off to a remote beach just outside town! what a great night, we just sat back and watched the fireworks going of all night and a hundred thousand lanterns being set off all around us all night long. we had tunes and booze and craic and possibly more importantly...Peace! we set off our lantern at dawn, around the same time that pic was taken, and when the sun came up twenty minutes later, we went swimming, is this really my life!
unfortunately it aint all been bliss!
the last month has been seriously intense! i am eating breathing and sleeping Pum restaurant, and i dont know if it's the heat or the amount i'm trying to absorb, but it's really difficult to keep up! it's strange cos i know that this is something i should excel at, but i'm not? and it's a really unusual feeling for me, but i really really want this.
i'm telling myself that it's that i'm not getting any downtime to absorb all that i need to, which is valid, because seriously, we work from 7, 8, 9am to anywhere between 8-12pm, and i'va had only 2 valid days off since i arrived, so it doesn't leave much time for study etc, but i have to admit that a part of me is starting to suggest that maybe i'm just not good enough? which scares the life out of me! i know you probably all think i'm crazy working like this, but if i can do this, if i can put my head down and learn all i need to, then it will be soooo worth it, and by then, not only will my working hours be normalised, but because i'll know what i need to, my working day won't be half as stressful.
thank you all so much for keeping me involved in the xmas and new years festivities, it so great to not feel so far away, i'm so jealous of you all hangin out together, and i can't believe i missed the sultans!! thanks for thinkin of me cian, have to admit to a wee weep after that phonecall, it was soo unexpected and i could hear all the buzz around you, it was wicked! and fanny's home!, somebody give her a big sloppy one from me : > handsome, i can't believe u didn't make it! mail me and let me know what happened!
sorry i cant make this more individual, but it's nearly 1 am again, definately time for bed i'm afraid.
Tues and bref, let me know if ye think ye'll be able to make it, i'll have around a week off sometime around the 13th april, and aine and her friend are coming for 3 weeks around the same time,
loadsa love to all my fam and friends,
might be a few weeks yet but i will get back to some kind of regular contact in the not too distant future.....i hope!!
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