A Month in the Books!!

Okay so tomorrow marks my first month of being a part of the Grassington village. If I look at where I was simply a month ago it's a total 180! When I first landed here, believe it or not I had a shy spell. Yea I know right me being shy?! But I was quiet, shy, and homesick like no other! I had I don't know how many times I checked my calendar hoping that September 1st would magically show up around the corner! I would have really bad homesickness to the point where I asked myself "why the hell am I all the way over here?!?!"
Of course that was then and this is now. Now I am back to my loud, laughing, friendly self with not an ounce of shy in me! I go into work just as if it were Pizza n Such, saying Hi to everyone. Work consists of joking and laughing with everyone. And after work doesn't consist of me hiding in my room all night with restless sleep. It now consists of me along with my coworkers heading up to the nearest pub, having a pint..or more....playing cards and having a great time! I can walk into the pub and people know who I am and I actually know who everyone is now, bartender knows my name and asks if I want the usual brew I get. The people here have made this experience so much better because they make me feel as if I've known them for 4 years instead of 4 weeks. I know for a fact I will come back here. Even if it's not for work but simply for a week's visit I will come back!
Everyone back home told me I needed to do this, that I have to do this, and that it would be a great experience in my life and that I'd never get another one like it. And I sure am glad that those people who know who they are...took the time to sit me down and make me realize how amazing this opportunity would be and gave me the boost of confidence I needed. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you to all my family and friends who have supported this for me. Thank you!

And I'll see everyone in a short 2.5 months! =)

This waterfall is where I would sit when I would get homesick. There's a ledge that I am actually sitting on when I took this picture and that's where I would go when I would start to miss home. Now I go there with a more positive attitude and think how time is flying by and how quickly I'll be home, and that this will all soon be a journal of my past experience I had in England!
Cheers for now!