It never really hit me that I was going to be spending ten weeks in a foreign country with 45 people I didn't know, and even as we come to the end of our first long day it still hasn't. On the coach up to Heathrow as I was taking in the last bit of English countryside that I would see for a long time I was trying to work out what I was actually feeling about the situation. Part of me was relieved that I would be leaving behind the hassles and tedium of everyday l...