America, I Have Arrived!

I'm finally here! After months of planing and worrying, 9 hour bus rides down to London, and (too) many exams, I've made it to the US in one piece.  

I arrived into Newark last night and spent the night in New Jersey with a family friend. This is the view I woke up to (at 5 in the morning, my body clock is fucked!)...HELLO NEW YORK!

For breakfast I had some amazing pancakes with strawberries, and then I went to get my first mani-pedi. WHY ARE THESE NOT MORE POPULAR/CHEAPER IN THE UK? 

It was incredible, and so relaxing! I'm going to have to find somewhere that does them in Valencia.

We then took a stroll down to Carlo's Bake Shop, which is the bakery that 'The Cake Boss' is all about! If you haven't seen it, it's on TLC (my new favourite channel). We didn't go in because there was already a massive queue outside, but I did get my picture taken outside it.

I'm currently on the train after successfully buying my ticket from a woman named Joy, who ironically was not very joyful!

I can't wait to get onto the island and meet all of my work colleagues and housemates! 

I'll keep you posted! 

Girls Night Away

Last weekend I went away with a few of my closest girlfriends for a night to my Nana and Pop's (grandparents) caravan on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond...ROADTRIP! Thankfully the weather was good, and we were able to have a BBQ (Homemade Nando's chicken...NOM!) and some cider to wash it down (before moving on to the wine and vodka). 

It's such a great feeling to be able to act like a complete idiot in front of people, and for them not to judge you. In fact, it's even better when they join in! Most of the night was taken up with strange dancing, drunken working out, and toilet talk. There wasn't even that much boy chat! Of course whilst doing this we were making our way through a massive pile of sweets, crisps and chocolate! (Hello fat day!)

I guess what I want to say with this post is that if you have a close group of friends, hold onto them! I may be going away for a year and will hardly see my friends, and I'm going to have to make an extra effort to contact and skype them. However, I'm pretty confident that when I come back, we'll still be able to act like idiots together and tell each other everything, including the fact that you've just done a smelly shit so you would advise them not to go into the toilet for a good 10 mins. So classy!