Ok, for some reason at this ‘I really should be in bed’ hour of the night I’m thinking about future, as the end of my Gap Year approachs things have happened I didn’t think would and I can see parts of the future yet others remain unknown.

So the near future…. in 5 weeks ish I finish in Peterborough for the summer, during which I’m hoping I will be working at Haven again getting the pennies in, Spending loads of time with friends, playing music and trying some recording again, and getting some rest with a KD, Ben & Me camping trip somewhere along the lines and a chance to spend some time at my home church with God without the pressures of youth work every week, which, don’t get me wrong I love youth work but a break is good! Of course other plan in mind is a Youth Service at the end of the summer with a much smaller and certainly not called what it used to be called Cheesed Off. I think the whole jokey name thing was very Sixth Form, what with bigfatsmellychicken, cheesed off and numerous locker-tampon jokes. It’s time to move on and it’s amazing how being away for a year changes you, God has provided me with confidence this year and been helping to develop and use my skills for his work.

The not quite so near future… so, after the summer? Well come September I will be starting a difficult but hopefully rewarding three years, the first two I will be at Park Rod Baptist in Peterborough doing youth work and going to London 2 days a week to do a degree in Christian youth work, this 48 hour week to be perfectly honest scares the hell out of me! It’s not that I don’t like the idea of work but I think that after a Gap Year (which no hasn’t been easy and free) getting back into study patterns could be trickey. The third year leads us nicely onto…

The ‘Damn that’s a long way away’ future… the third year of uni seems a long way away and I haven’t figured out if the lack of placement means there will be more work or just an easy time, I guess this will influence whether I stay in Yarmouth and commute or find somewhere to live nearer, who knows? And when that’s all over I guess it’s into youth work, unless of course I’m in a signed punk band touring the globe, which would be amazing and my dream but I guess it’s probably unlikely, who knows!

Thinking about the future is slightly scary really, it’s weird when you’re at college actually getting a proper job, house etc seems ages away but it seems pretty close now and it’s kinda scary.