Today was the day! After a year of waiting, I was finally stood at my front door worrying if I had packed everything that I needed! It was 4 30am and I was waiting for my mate to pick me up. The nerves started to kick in and the butterfly's in my stomach were going ten to the dozen! The realisation that I was going to be away for 17 weeks by myself had finally hit home! He arrived, and as I sat in the front of his car checking my bag the whole way down the m11, I...