Tomorrow!

Hey guys and gals
So the big adventure starts tomorrow and to say that Im a little nervous would be an understatement! I’ve got about a million things to do, one of which is pack! I’ve written a list though so it’s all good...
The last few weeks have been incredible and I can’t begin to explain how much I will miss people. I’ve been on fast forward, picking up speed the closer the first of September gets until suddenly it’s here! I don’t think it will sink in until Ally and I are strapped in to our eleven hour flight watching the glinting lights of London disappear. I expect feel a combination of excitement and sorrow at having said goodbye to everyone for 6 months. Having said that Ally in typical organised fashion has informed me that we will have Shrek, kick ass and our extensive travelling playlist to entertain and distract us. Failing that, she found a good article on how to sleep on planes; I’m not sure about putting pyjamas on, but a mask, earplugs and a boring book (suggestions welcome) are sure to send me to sleep!
Anyway we shall keep you posted as much as possible, please post comments, facebook us, email etc and let us know how you are, what’s going on and how shit the weather is getting (hehe).

Love to you all

Liz
xxx
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Here we are I guess. It seems that it came a little bit too quick. Part of me is more than excited by the thought of this amazing adventure, but (because of course there is a but)the other part is also very scared. It seems a little bit silly to have blown away all serious plans just because I'm weak-minded on a hungover and Liz is really good at convincing me. Joke on the side, it seems to be the ultimate milestone into my Kingston University experience.
A year ago when I moved to Kingston from Camden, I thought it will be the end of my social life, did not know anyone and did not want to know anyone. I hated that "Team Uni" spirit and so on. Basically I thought I was too cool for school.
However, people showed me that I was wrong and I had probably one of the best year of my life, thanks to some incredibly amazing characters that I met here.
So that's it, uni is over, and I used to believe that right now, I would start my master, or get ready for the big world of corporate work. Instead, I am a cheerleader going on a gap year. Times have changed.

Bye for now. I will miss some people, but we'll be back in no time with a better tan than you.

x
Ally

Playlist For Traveling

I'll set the scene for you.
Two girls, 3 continents, 5 months, 9 countries and countless cities and adventures. It deserved a decent travel play list. One to suit the long journeys whether it is on a plane, on a bus, a road trip through the Australian outback or an elephant ride in the deep Malaysian jungle.
Something to make us dance until we watch the sun rise behind those rocks in Ha long Bay, something to make that trek around the Angkor Wat temples a little bit more extraordinary, and something to gently put us to sleep while rocking in a hammock in Fiji.

So here is a quick taste of the soundtrack of what should be the best time ever.

Aphex Twin- Window Licker
Aphex Twin- Avril 14th
Badly Drawn Boy- The Shining
Band Of Horses-The End's Not Near
Bat for Lashes- Pearl's Dream
Battles- Atlas
Beenie Man- Dude (TLGB Remix)
Biffy Clyro- Puzzle
Bishop Allen- Eve of Destruction
Black Eyed Peas Ft Kid Cudi - Boom Boom Pow Remix
Blink 182 - Anything if it's while driving to the beach
The Bloody Beetroots- Detroit (Ghetto Edit)
Bluejuice- Vitriol
Born Ruffians - I need a life
Brand New- Sic Transit Gloria /Jude law or a semester abroad
Britney Spears- 3
Chet Baker- Time after Time, but anything really
Chiddy Bang- Truth (ft Passion Pit)
Cold War Kids - We used to vacation
Comeback Kid- Wake the dead
The Cool Kids- Basement Party
The Count & Sinden- Beeper (Fake Blood Mix)
Crookers - Royal T / Hold up your hand ft Roisin Murphy (Tons of Friends)
Cut Copy - Time Stands Still
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip- Thou Shalt Always Kill
Dashboard Confessional - As Lovers Go
Death Cab for Cutie - Tiny Vessels, but anything really
Diplo- Must be a Devil
The Drums - Don't be a Jerk Johnny
Example- Kickstarts / Hooligan / Girl you can't dance
The Faint - Glass Dance
Fionn Regan - Abacus
The Getaway Plan- Where the city meets the sea
Girl Talk- Night Ripper
Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
The Hush Sound- Lighthouse (Best memories on the train in Hong Kong watching the mountains in the dark)
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Kele-Tenderoni
Local Natives- Shape Shifter
Louis XIV - Pledge of Allegiance
The Maccabees- Toothpaste Kisses / First Love
Man Like me - London Town
Marmaduke Duke - Kids Gloves / Skin the Mofo / Rubber Lover
Metric- Help, I'm Alive
Metronomy - A thing for me
MSTRKRFT - Bounce
Norma Jean - Blueprints for Future Home
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead / Sleepyhead (neo tokyo remix / Little secrets
Royksopp- Happy Up Here
Say Anything- I hate everyone / Wow, I can get sexual too
Senses Fails - Calling All Cars
Spankrock - Loose
Steve Aoki - Low life / New Noise (Erol Alkan Durr Remix)/ Shake and Pop ft Kid Sister
Surfer Blood - Swim / Twin Peaks
Taking Back Sunday- Make Damn Sure / Cut without a e
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Dead Voices
Terry Poison- 24 hours
Test Icicles- Circle Square Triangle
Tubelord- I am azzerad
Twin Atlantic - A Guidance from colour
Wild Beast- When I'm Sleepy.

And probably a million more that I forgot. Long and maybe pointless post, but what do I care, I spent an hour listening to my favorite tracks, getting hyped about travelling. Stoked to go.

Ally.

Why Gap Yah?