Everyone's left now, my Facebook news feed is packed full with freshers photos and so I know now that I am truly on my gap year. Initially I didn't intend to have a gap year, in fact probably from about January this year I was ready to leave home. I'd reached that stage where I just couldn't wait to get away, not because I hated home, but because I couldn't wait to start a new exciting life as an adult at a uni I loved, studying a subject (or two in my case) that I was passionate about.
Unfortunately, I became ill in February and after a few months of fluctuating health, lots of time off school and almost random patterns of symptoms I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in early May, just in time for my exams. I'll go into more detail about exam preparation for Chronic Fatigue in a later post, but basically it meant that I could apply to defer my university place and try and get through my exams with the hope of having a gap year and a confirmed place in August.
I was really lucky, because although I didn't make my university grades (I got AAB, while I was predicted A*AA and offered AAA) I was still accepted to my first choice university. I will be studying History and Politics at Warwick next year and this blog is here to document my progress in getting back up to a healthy an independent living standard as a bit on the side to your standard gap year blog.
