MuffinMaddy

Guys anyone been to Italy with good ideas on what I should do with myself for three weeks? One week is spending time in the south (Basilicata) Few days in very North around the French border. Thinking of going to see the tower of Pisa I find Rome overrated and I've been there already this summer so yeah I'm looking for a good area to explore for a week/week and a half

I've been teaching for six weeks straight and I'm probably losing my mind but this week is different because I'm the most experienced so I'm actually the one running around telling people what to do and it's not normally how I do things, I'm always the one being told what to do so I'm tired out but I've had a blast in Italy and I'm due an amazing holiday with my favourite ever host family in two weeks time.

tbt last wednesday when I was a citizen of a country in the EU lol Anyway, I love my job it's so amazing, it's like re-living my childhood. I have been blessed with a great set of kids, one of the girls might as well be fluent in English. My teaching assistant never turns up, but my class is so good that I haven't needed her although I've had to do 3 tasks at once. I'm having a great time but with a small group of children, it's hard to do events that kill enough time everyday. Another thing is my class consists of mostly 10-11 year old children but there's one 14 year old because it's only a small village so he's not near enough to one of the high school summer camps my company runs, so he's in my class and he's complaining that the things (topics) are too juvenile for him, so I'm working on making some codebreaker/sudoku/wordsearch activities for him to do on his own tomorrow. Thankful that he's only here for the week because I do feel for him, but what does he expect me to do? I have no idea where in Italy I'd be headed to, next. I don't mind going further south but ideally not too mountainous as my ears are getting a bit messed up. Also, I have to be mindful that I have a holiday in Milan in August so I can't keep going too south otherwise my train journey back will be something like 12 hours.

I know. Lol. People bought into it. Variety of reasons for voting leave but I think a lot of the voting was based on emotion rather than actually looking at the economy. I know very little about the economy but I know it can change easily whereas immigration won't just lessen automatically which is what a lot of leave voters really want I have wanted to move to Canada since my year abroad but this has just cemented my resolve to move somewhere else even if it's not Canada. I'm bored of a political climate that's so toxic all the time but more importantly I want to start a new life properly

Grumble grumble Britain grumble grumble. I voted by proxy and I'm living in Italy right now and all my Italian colleagues at work are making me laugh about it cause tbh I can't put any emotion into politics ever anymore since a couple of votes I've made have been useless except for the mayor of London lol. I voted for London mayor two days after landing from Canada and made preparations for this referendum before I flew out to Italy. But yeah I am loving living in Italy, I've had a blast teaching English and to have good feedback from parents of the kids I teach has been wonderful. I do think I need to control my anger and patience a little but otherwise yeah pretty good. My host family always say I don't act like their impression of an English person because I'm friendly lol. I do need to stop saying [bleep] and being blunt. I've picked up a lot of helpful words in Italian, "stop" obviously is ineffective. I'm moving to a town of 6000 inhabitants tomorrow in a region called Basilicata. I've gone from being responsible for 96 children to 24, (obviously with the help of a larger team of staff) Also your post made me mad saq and it's not your fault or what you wrote it's just that whyyy ffs I literally hate the electorate of my country lol Honestly poor [bleep]ing Scotland man. This is so shit for them. I'll always vote but I'm kinda disenfranchised. Got loads of people gearing up to leave lol

I've been living in Italy for a week now. I'm covered in mosquito bites but I've made some brilliant friends out here. I've had ten meals of pasta and two pizzas. I had lasagne this afternoon which was really nice as well. They're really into fizzy water which is a bit annoying when you're not expecting it. Last week I stayed in a lovely golf resort and met some great people from all over the world. I'm now living in Rome and despite being incredibly paranoid of pickpockets, I'm really excited to begin teaching my first class of Italian children tomorrow.

I got whiskey dicked on Thursday night

Yeah I know there's no drama believe it or not I think she's never going to speak about me ever again and she graduates in a month anyway, don't think she will report either it was a one off dw I won't ever attack anybody ever again

Ffs I physically beat somebody up last night and I really should have ignored her.

Hey ring I didn't name names, I didn't accuse anyone of anything either I just talked about myself but it's unclear the way I've posted it here I wrote this post in the middle of a panic attack

Yeah thanks guys I'm sorry about this, I'll be normal at some point. I'm off to Italy on Sunday lol

yeah you're close enough but I do have proof but I'm trying to move on from the event and it's too late I probably shouldn't have said anything at all over here because it's incredibly unclear just know I was in a really bad place and it was getting better but now I'm freaked out from shit sorry this is so incoherent but I hope things work out I thought my anxiety was under control with my coping mechanism. Sorry I really shouldn't have posted here and it doesn't make sense what I've said I just freaked out when I got a call from someone who really frightens me

Yeah don't worry I'm talking to myself right now this isn't a discussion, like I can't summarise anything anymore my head is a mess When I say secret I don't mean secret I mean something that happened to me and that I need support for Scattered explanation but my head is fragmented for a number of reasons sorry for being vague

Life feels like a very intense game of jenga. Revealed one of my most painful secrets on Facebook but it's too risky to tell everybody so I've made it visible to select people that I feel won't break my trust with this secret and the number of tagged people has reached over 180 and so far nobody has betrayed my trust... I would know if my trust was betrayed because it would result in a heavy barrage of online attacks from people who really can't know that I've let the cat out of the bag after two years of protecting these individuals.....

It's a bit of a random idea but my current plans for my life (seem pretty damn different from when I applied to University all those years ago) but I'm obviously moving to Italy in two weeks' time to work all summer and so I'll save up some money, which should put me in a good financial position. Then I start my final year of university and hopefully if I do well in these upcoming job interviews, I can earn some money alongside my studies. I'll graduate summer of 2017 and learn to drive (I get a scholarship and if I save up enough I'll have more than enough to do lessons and my test) and then what I want to do is maybe work in Italy again (They have a good re-hiring rate - this is assuming I enjoy it and I save up enough this summer) and then what I really want to do is really cliche but I want to go on an American roadtrip. It's something all my friends I met in Canada have done and I wish I could have gone with them but I hadn't seen my mum in almost a year, and I didn''t really have the funds at the time to do it. I'm also quite anti social sometimes. As much as I loved spending Christmas with my two friends and have had a lot of fun, I love solo travelling. It really suits me just doing things alone - I don't feel lonely, just more open minded and at peace, so I'd really like to get on that. It was something my ex really wanted to do but I might hijack the idea myself and go for it. I really want a life that's rich in travelling at least when I'm young. I feel like my mental problems really subside when I'm constantly doing new things and meeting different people, eating new foods etc

I guess I'm just English. But also because I take an interest in place names and where they are on maps, don't ask me why. I have strange interests and hobbies. One of them was while I was in Canada, I was taking as many pictures of Canadian flags as possible and these weren't just any pictures - these had to be the precise moment that a flag would be outstretched in the wind. Once again, do not ask me why I do these quirky things, it's just me being me.

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I'm really happy age gaps aren't a problem for me anymore. It's not that it's a problem but like when you're in your teens, the gap between you and significant other/person you're dating or "seeing" actually raises question marks even if it's 2 years. Now I'm talking to a 26 year old and it's just chill, and it's just nice that the maturity gap isn't horrendous anymore. Me being awkward is quirky now rather than just plain weird.

Yes.

Yeah literally know way more states off the top of my head than I did a year ago - 39/50 Bummed that I forgot Nevada (Vegas for goodness sake) and yeah I was even in NJ for New Years this year so I shouldn't have forgotten that one either [hide] [/hide]

1. Are your friend requests getting rejected more or less often, or is there no change? I think there's been a few pending ones that just chill before being ignored for eternity or eventually accepted. 2. Are you getting unfriended more or less often? I think from time to time someone deletes me but it's likely someone I never really spoke to, and even if it was someone I did speak to, I'm not bothered about it. 3. Have you become pickier about Facebook "friends" yourself? Definitely, I have ignored a fair few friend requests and when I'm drunk I can delete up to 50 people at once. It always makes me freak out a little when I hit a 'milestone' like 500 or 600 'friends' because I know I don't have 600 ish friends so I get sketched out and get rid of a few of the stragglers. Having said that, I'm growing up and I've had a wealth of experiences which means I've met a large number of people from different parts of my life so it's no surprise that I've probably acquired around 100 ish friends from my year abroad, from my jobs over the years, from holidays, bits and pieces adds up to the 616 I have now.

Oh dear what is this saq

Reminds me of rumours about people getting into clubs with bus passes and $20 on my year abroad lol I loved having hot friends cause we'd be allowed to skip the line so often, it was bad but I loved the corruption On a side note I'm doing so great compared to a week ago. I go back to campus in a few weeks for the last few days and I have a guy I might be "hanging out" with but the only thing is I think he likes me and that is a problem because I don't like anyone, I don't want a relationship for sure and I don't want to have any sort of cutesy affectionate couple-y intimacy either. I'll do feelings one day, just not for the forseeable future so I'm probably going to have to drop this sooner rather than later that I am very unlikely to stay the night, spoon or want anything more and if he's not cool with that then I'd rather not do anything/lead someone on.

Also your advice has been on point with regards to my love life because since blocking everyone negative out I feel so so so much better. I'm in a really good frame of mind. I think accepting I made a poor decision and dated a loser has really helped me feel better. I'm not slamming him any more than that, just not being disappointed anymore feels really good. Now that I've just accepted he's just not a nice person it's easier to just feel at peace with how nastily things went down. I also wrote out a time line of my struggles with mental illness and I have noticed I've been at least mildly depressed since I was about 14. It started from little things like having to get into groups for activities and always being left out. I've been in a good mood, it was just as a point of interest. Detailing my journey wasn't painful, it was just a good way to see how much I've improved (even when my mood swings were at their most intense) I need to find a hobby until I move to Italy but in the mean time I might get back into dancing to be honest. Planning to come back to campus for the last week, see friends before they graduate and I want my dancing skills to be on point. Happy I have a few more never have I ever stories for drinking games from Canada though lol. Even talking about this makes me so excited to see my friends again but they have exams so I have to wait :(

Going to sound a bit crazy but I've only just read up on what I need to do in preparation for the last year of my degree and it's just hit me how little time I have left as an undergraduate student. It's going to go so quickly and I've just been calculating how many hours a week I need to spend in the lab and it does make me want to facedesk to be honest. In my first year of university I did spend a hell of a lot of time in the lab, and I actually quite liked it, but in second year that time decreased quite a bit. I won't forget losing 5% for my grade for turning up a few hours late oops, but I need to spend 150 hours in the lab next year. In Canada I didn't pick any lab courses because I didn't want to buy another lab coat (because cheapskates r us) but yeah I feel like a baby again in terms of carrying out experiments