One Sunny Weekend in May!

Totally out of the blue I get a letter – from the police. ‘We would like to conditionally offer you a place on the police training course starting in 1 months time.’ Oh yippy. I am over the moon, but then read on, the division they have assigned me to is the furthest area in the county away from my family and friends, and obviously even further from where I am now living. I am not sure if I should laugh or cry, so I do both! It has been such a long time coming and I have only just got a new job and I worked so hard to get the new job and now finally after over a year of waiting the police want me just as I have started a new job.

Obviously I have a lot to think about, getting myself ready to move and so far from my boyfriend and friends I have here. I decide that I have been through too much not to accept the position and that the new job will just have to survive without me. I calm myself down with a BBQ and a few 'lemonades'. Then decide to start filling in all the forms they have sent me - yes yet more forms! They must be trying to get me into practice for the paperwork side of the police job.

Come Monday I have finally worked up the guts to tell my new employers that I will be leaving. They take it surprisingly well. Fingers crossed they will let me stay till the end of the month and pay me too!

I have applied for police accommodation for the 1st 4 weeks of the training course. Due to the fact I am applying from outside of the county I should get it for free - yippy a month rent free!! Then I have ti find somewhere to live for real. The rental prices are bound to be much higher than I am used to and I don't know anyone in the area I could share with - but maybe it will be fun to have a flat on my own.

So a real mixture of feelings going on right now - excitement, apprehension, nerves and looking forward to new beginnings.