The Time Traveller's wife

"It's hard being left behind. I wait for [him], not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays."

The joy of being a Young Single Adult

The title of this blog may come across as slightly sarcastic, and I suppose in someway I do mean it sarcastically. There are many things I struggle with in being a YSA (18-30 year old unmarried person in the LDS church). There are also many amazing things about it.

At the moment, YSA reminds me of the fact that I am unmarried. That wouldn't be such a problem, but when everyone around you is finding the person they're supposed to be with and getting all coupled-up, it makes you feel kind of lonely. Which is crazy- I'm only 19 and I'm already feeling the pressure. However, I could deal with it if all it was is pressure or the idea that everyone else is getting married. I could ignore those things. The worst part of it all is that I want to get married more than anything... so I'm incredibly jealous of married life.

Flu!

I'm currently in bed feeling extremely sorry for myself as I think I have swine flu.

I have a runny nose, temperature, sore throat, incessant cough/sneeze and am generally feeling a complete lack of energy.

I am not a fun person to be around at the moment!

I'm supposed to be revising but am finding it very difficult to concentrate...

Telligo! 9 days down (this is the 10th), 5 days to go!

I'm writing this from the computer room at Boundary Oak School.

I'm totally shattered from all the running around, preparing activities and trying to make myself understood by the children. That's the negative. Now, on to the positive things- and there are many! The children here are genuinely nice children 99.9% of the time, which is more than I could have ever imagined given that they're away from home for two weeks in a different country and getting little sleep (the timetable provides them adequate sleep but, of course, nighttime is far too exciting to waste sleeping... *rolls eyes*... hehe). As a counsellor I definitely find it tricky to keep patient with them all the time. On a very good day we get 5 hours sleep a night. We get only one day off a week and I've had both of mine already!

Family wedding!

Today, Kate Horwell and Richard Mace were married for time and all eternity!

It was a lovely day... I really can't sum it up. It was totally ideal and I was pleased to be there and see it!

Plus, it was great to catch up with people like Lauren, Andrew and my cousins! Laura and I had a good old natter, which reminded us once again that we need to stop talking about arranging to do things together but actually arrange to do them! I do love my family and friends.

But the words won't play...

Ben leaves to go to Preston MTC today...

I'm so proud of him.