Hey guys, it’s been a while! There’s been so much going on with college, university applications, and the Paine Foundation and football. I really lost track of time and writing another post simply slipped my mind. But now that’s all sorted, I can finally write and outline what my next chapter may look like 🙂
This time next week, I will be in halls for my first week away from home. I’ll be getting to know my new flatmates and settling into my new life at Bournemouth University. I can’t really describe the feeling, it’s kind of like a feeling of apprehension, but at the same time, it feels like it still isn’t going to happen. Like I said, it doesn’t really make sense. It feels like just yesterday I started college, started with my new teams and made new friends. It feels crazy that it is already about to happen again, in a different city, in a different county and different people.
Maybe it is a sense of sadness. Maybe I’m grieving what I am leaving behind… my family, my friends, my job. Everything about the last 3 or 4 months has been really bittersweet. Training with a team that isn’t mine, just to get into form for trials and the start of the season in Bournemouth, and ultimately getting injured so I can’t play anyway. Moving into a new house with my family and decorating my room, just to leave it again 2 weeks later. Having my last shift at Worthing Football Club as a supervisor (until Christmas but it won’t be the same) and saying goodbye to the club I have called home and watched grow for the last 3 seasons.
But I know it is all for the greater good. After these 3 years, I will be a qualified physiotherapist, probably working in the NHS, possibly doing a masters degree and sport physio at the weekends! It is all very exciting, but all very daunting.
I will keep you updated along this new chapter of my life, the highs, the lows and everything in between.
Thanks for reading. See you in the next one 😊
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