Posts tagged moving

Soon I’ll be moving house, and not just a change of walls but also a change of place. I’m finally leaving Lancaster. Well I say finally, there are a lot of people who have stayed longer than I and still not left, but I think 8 years is good enough for me. 

I’ve been trying to work out what I think about leaving, what I’ll miss and what I’m looking forward to leaving behind, but I actually think it’s affecting me less than it feels like it should. It isn’t like I’m moving a million miles away to a place I don’t know, I’m moving to an area that give or take 10 miles, I essentially grew up in. A place I spent many holidays, roaming free over the hills and fells exploring. It doesn’t feel like a scary place to be moving to, and I don’t feel like there will be a lot to learn. 

It is going to be a change though, and I think a change for the good. Having to do things a bit differently, seeing new scenery, meeting new people. It’s what I’ve needed to do for about 2 years but have been unable due to academic commitments. I’m glad that’s nearly over.

I’m finding out more about my new job and the people I’ll be working with, and the things they have planned for us to do in the induction week sounds like I’m becoming a fresher again. I’m a bit too old for that kind of stuff these days. Trying to decide if I want to go to the graduate ball in October, there are apparently hot air balloon rides… that might well sway it for me. 

All in all it’s an exciting time. Not least because I’ll be living very close to a zoo with giraffes.