So, it did happen

I'm feeling a bit weird. Not sure why. Well, I'm injured so that might be part of it.
I'm 'stuck' in Kampala, recuperating from an accident I had yesterday. So now I'm not really sure when I will be leaving. Was supposed to drive up north today, but that didn't happen. So now I'm sitting here. In my lovely apartment in Kampala with not much to do. Feeling a bit lonely, and wondering what will happen now. I think I will be heading up north on Sunday, feels like the most logic choice. But I'm not sure how I'll get there as the car left today... Do I take the bus? Will they send a car for me? (It's a seven/eight our drive.....) I'm confused. And in pain.

If anyone cares to know, I was hit by a car yesterday. While I was on a bodaboda (motorcycle taxi). We were stood still and the car was hit us from behind and I flew off. I returned home with a painful ass (it really hurts to sit...), some bruises all over my body in random places. And a minor concussion. Thus, I'm not on my way north. I will be fine in a couple of days, it was more the shock I think. But yeah, a bit scary. I will not be writing about this on my travelblog as I have decided to not tell my parents. I don't want to freak them out and have them worry more than they already do about the fact that I'm spending my summer in remote areas of Africa. I'll tell them when I get home :P

But yeah, so here I am. Recovering. I'm not supposed to move around too much due to the concussion, but I can't sit for too long because my ass hurts... Oh the dilemmas I face...

What I did a year ago

The photo is self-explanatory with regards to what I did a year ago today ;)
Central Park, New York City.

What I did a year ago

It's been a year since I met up with a close friend in NYC to have lunch,
after not having seen each other for a year.
Needless to say,
it was a good day.

What I did a year ago

A year ago I was being a tourist in NYC.

Where I drove a year ago

A year ago today we reached our final destination of the road trip of my life.
New York City.

What I did a year ago

A year ago we were two days away from our six week goal,
and Benji broke down.
Our day at the beach in Cape Cod never happened.

What I did a year ago

A year ago, today, I was on a whale safari while staying at Cape Cod.
Pretty amazing...

What I did a year ago

I was walking around in Cambridge, outside of Boston.
Before we took the car and drove to Cape Cod.

Where I spent my day a year ago

In park in Boston.

Where I was a year ago

It's been a year since we drove through five states in one day...
Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and finally Massachusetts.

What I did a year ago

Washington DC is a great city to be a tourist in,
and that's what I was on this day last year.

Where I was a year ago

An evening strole through Washington DC,
after having driven all day from North Carolina.

Where I was a year ago

In a suburbian area of a town in North Carolina.

Where I spent my day a year ago

A beach in North Carolina.
It was a perfect day.

What I did a year ago

So, a year ago today I got to watch a minor league baseball game in North Carolina.
It was.....
Quite boring, to be honest.

What I did a year ago

A year ago I was shopping dresses with two dear friends in Columbia, South Carolina.
And then we drove to Greenville, North Carolina, to visit another dear friend.

What I did a year ago

I drove through the south of the US a year ago.
South Carolina was our goal,
and we passed through Alabama and Georgia to get there.
It was hot.

Where I was a year ago

Memphis skyline, oh how I love that city.

Taking off

I'm off to Uganda in just a couple of hours.
If you want to know what's going on,
check out my travel pod :)

I'll be there until the end of August so it might be quiet here for a while.
Or it might not.
But just to let you know.

Who I spent my day with a year ago

Today it's exactly a year since I was chillin' with Elvis at Graceland.

Where I was a year ago

A year ago today we arrived in Memphis,
One of my favourite US cities.

Where I was a year ago

Cotton fields of Mississippi.

Where I was a year ago

I was on the road, going from Oklahoma to Little Rock, Arkansas.
It was humid, very humid.

Not going anywhere

It's that time of the year.
When everything comes to an end.
You know what I'm talking about.
The feelings you go through at the end of something great.

This year is different though.
At this time of the year, for the last five years,
it's been the end of a chapter.
Be it high school,
work (twice!),
leaving for year abroad,
leaving my year abroad behind.
But not this time.
This time my end of exams (yay!),
the packing up of my room,
the farewells to friends.
It doesn't mean the end.
It just mean I'm going to be gone for a little while.
For a couple of months,
and then I'm back.
Come September,
and I'll be back in my dear England again.
So it's a different feeling than normally.
But it's nice.
It's very, very, very nice.
I should do this more often.

Where I drove a year ago

A year ago I was driving through Kansas, admiring the landscape and realising we were in the Bible Belt.

The relief

And just like that,
with one last effort,
I am done with my third year of university.
Which means, I guess, that technically I am no longer an undergraduate.
I'm a graduate. Kind of.
Weird.
But oh what a nice feeling.

Where I was a year ago

A year ago I spent two days doing absolutely nothing in a suburb to Denver.

Two more to go

I have two more exams to go. One today, and one tomorrow.
And then finally I can say that I've done three years of uni and is done with my undergrad.
Until then, this is my state of mind:

Where I drove a year ago

Today, a year ago, I was in four states.
Started in Idaho,
drove through Utah and Wyoming,
and ended up in Colorado.

The photo is from Wyoming.

Where I slept a year ago

A year ago I did not crawl into bed as I was about to fall asleep,
instead we pulled over the long, empty road somewhere in the state of Idaho.
We hung blankets over the windows,
and we actually slept like babies.