Happy Birthday Dad! Hope you had a good day. Looking forward to seeing you in 3 weeks in Tenerife.

2 bits of news today.

1. I have just received a letter from South Wales university (which is one of the universities that I applied to do the Clinical Doctorate training at). They don't want me. Well, not exactly true. I am on the reserve list for interview. So not great news. They had 17 applicants per place according to their letter. And I wasn't one of the better ones evidently. But if someone drops out, then they will see me... and then not accept me! Ha, Ha! Well, you never know. I might interview amazingly well and get on. But, possibly not.

So, given that I am away for the Plymouth and Oxford interviews (they are when I am in Tenerife), the only other hope is for Exeter. So we'll wait and see what their letter holds.

I am a bit bummed out by it. If I lived in a world where everything went my way it would have gone like this:
1. Apply to universities and get accepted by one (here's why you have to hope for Exeter!).
2. Be able to defer place til next year and
3. Spend year travelling in Oz
4. Return and complete Clinical Doctorate.

But maybe I still need to get more experience. I was hoping that it would be possible to get feedback from the application process about what areas you need to develop. However, the letter states that due to the overwhelming number of applications they are not providing feedback this year. So, I won't be able to find out what I could have done differently/ better.

Anyway... onto second piece of news. I have this morning applied for travelling visas for Craig and I for Australia. These are not permanent working visas. They are for people who want to travel around a bit in Oz and in my case (since I am under 30- this is one of the last few times I will be able to say that) do some work.

The plan is this: in November once my course is finished and we have remortgaged the house we intend to fly to Oz and spend a few months travelling about. We're thinking of buying a van and living in that. If we are granted the visas they will allow me to take on any kind of work to fund our travel and for Craig he can work, but there are more restrictions. Ie. he can do stuff that an employer will pay him in kind for eg. give him accommodation or food. So we are thinking we will just bum about for a bit and travel up the East coast before returning to the UK and our jobs. We plan to rent out our house when we are away.

Ok- response.... what do you all think..?!