Thanks Anita. Nice to hear from you again.

The surgery…I don’t want to go into it. It’s not life threatening, but necessary. I will need 1-2 weeks to recover and I am a bit scared to be honest.

I left my hometown as soon as I could. I love my family but it’s a soulless place. For me, Spain IS home. It is my spiritual home. When I get off the aeroplane in Spain, my whole body relaxes and I just think ‘ahh…I’m home’. Whereas when I visit the UK I feel more like ‘ah it’s nice to visit for a while!’

My life in Spain was not perfect. The main problem was the financial issue which I need to try and rectify by getting a better qualification in the UK which carries over to Spain. I am basically looking at having to stay in the UK for two years, without my friends and the communities I have spent time building abroad – I find that very, very hard to come to terms with. And yet I know I can’t go anywhere until my financial prospects improve and I recover from surgery.

I don’t want to say goodbye to my old life.