31 Oliviaxoxo, Apr 20, 2018
TLDR - Please dont read if you don't want to hear - it might be a bit of a boring read!! Just wanted to document somewhere my recent experiences and to say hello again! but either way I had awesome time but very happy to be home!!!!
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As some of you are probably aware, I've spent the last 9 weeks living it up in places that weren't Wales and having to get by with some bare Spanish words and some great acting-out-phrases! I also got lots of good big news whilst away basically about the new beginnings I'll experience in the upcoming months!
My trip started with a few days in Miami which was fun as i LOVE America....
Next we headed to a small town in Belize where I was going to be living for the next month working in a hospital (apparently lol...). When I arrived, the place i was staying was 6 miles outside the town in the middle of nowhere, the internet wasn't working and i had no phone for contact. It was a bit of a shock to the system as my main concern was not being able to stay in contact with home and know how my family where doing whilst being away. It was a bit of a panic and i genuinely had no idea how i was going to last 4 weeks but its crazy how you adapt! Luckily there were a Canadian couple living quite close by who became like adopted family for the whole time. They went above and beyond to help us sort everything out and on top of that always invited us to social events and showed us the real Belize. Actually fell in love with Belize, it was so chilled and the people there were really friendly, would always great everyone with a very cheerful "g'morning" which you dont really see often in the UK! :P We had to use the Chicken buses daily which was a fun experience... some of the drivers were a bit crazy but it was a cheap way to get around. Initially we would get stared at a lot on the bus and i can understand why...not many tourists get on these!! But as days went by it felt like we became more welcomed and theyd always budge up on the seat so i could perch on the end etc.
The hospital experience itself was very chilled. We were in for 8am and home by 11! In the end we got signed off after a week so took advantage of this to explore more of Belize itself which is beautiful. It has stunning beaches, Cayes (islands) and jungle!! Even did some zip lining and jumping off waterfalls which i never thought i'd do cos im a bit of a catastrophe worrier so i felt this helped me adapt as a person and helped reinforce to not expect worse to happen!
Following Belize, we took a night bus up to Mexico. I LOVE Mexico! We visited a few spots along the coast, went to many cenotes from ones under ground in a cave, to one being the bluest water I've ever seen and to another with turtles and fish and underwater caves that was so deep and huuuuuuuuge! Went to Cancun for a night but in all honesty I wasn't that fussed about it, I preferred Playa del..
