A Spreading of Wings: Catching up and updating

So a new year and time keeps rolling on. It seems that little changes year to year and my inability to keep this up to date seems to be one of them. However, in the 4 months since I last posted something, alot has happened.

After reading back over my last post I can see that it was shortly after I had arrived in York. Well I am still here. I hadn't planned to be here still, but nevertheless plans change and adapt.

The cliff hanger of the last post was... would I get a job. I did. No surprises there. Without a job I would be long out of money and on my way home by now. I started a job at a bar/restaurant called Stonegate Yard. It has had its ups a downs. I have had to be clean shaven for the first time in my professional life, which has been difficult to come to grips with. We were flat out with alot of hours over Christmas, but so far this year hours have been harder to come by. The group working there are alot of fun and for the most part I have enjoyed it, even if the work itself is repetitive and not particularly complicated.

Over the past few months I have managed to see a bit more than just York. I have done trips to Robin Hood's Bay, Leeds, Scarborough and Windermere in the Lakes district, as well as celebrating my birthday snowboarding in Austria (I will write something separate about that). With the Northern Hemisphere gripped by winter it has been hard to get up the motivation (and cash) to drag myself out of the warm comfort to go exploring.

No longer am I a fixture in the hostel. After living there for about 3 weeks I got a job and then set about finding somewhere to live. I now live a short walk down the river from work. I am renting a furnished room in a house, but seem to spend little time here recently.

So my plan upon arriving in York had been to live here for a couple of months, until about February, then do a ski/snow trip somewhere before moving somewhere like Wales to try and get another farm job. Those plans have changed for several reasons. One important one being that I have met a girl.

My plan as it stands currently is to travel to Morocco in April (again will expand separately), move back to York, see my sister when she visits around June/July, travel through Iceland, Norway and Sweden, before returning to the farm and job offer in Kent for the summer harvest. Although even that is now tentative as I have applied for a science/career sort of job in York. So we will see what happens.