Today I have been doing a few last things before heading off:

1. Student loan – have been making sure that is all sorted and that I won’t be receiving any threatening letters while I’m away. It takes a lot of time for them to do anything so I started this process about 2 months ago with them.
2. New current account – still waiting on the PIN but will be using Norwich and Peterborough as they have a debit card account with no fees on overseas cash withdrawals – result!
3. Informing banks I am going abroad so they won’t try to block my card quite as much.
4. Sorted out what basic jewellery I will be bringing with me (and by basic I mean ordinary not ‘basic’ :P).
5. Set up proxy on my main debit account as my mother, so she can reactivate my account if they block it.
6. Added a Skype subscription plan so I can make calls to landlines from Skype while overseas.
7. Got a case for my iPad to try to protect it.
8. and most importantly… met up with some of my best friends to watch Star Wars!

Getting excited now!