far far away

well as tony blair said yesterday. 'that is that...the end.' good one tone.
much has changed in myself and the world since i started writing this blog and i am grateful to it and everyone who has shown an interest in it and in me. i am glad to have done something worthwhile with the most forming years of my life and cant see how i will ever regret anything that ive seen or done in the past year, i look back and know how much i have been cared for and looked after and will really never forget all my friends and family in cambodia. i know now that my time there has finished and feel a strong leading elsewhere but i am glad to have been able to experience life in another country and on another continent and in another culture, there are not too many people who can say they have done that. more than anything through the life experience i have learnt alot about myself, i feel like if i hadnt achieved anything this year at least learning something about myself makes the whole thing worthwhile.

it may sound arrogant to consider these past few years an 'era' but i felt at christmas after all that had happened that this year was the last of an era, perhaps because im 20 now or maybe something else but i know it is time to move on. i am, therefore, annoncing my defection to buddhism....joke. i have sadly seen far too many buddas in the last few months particularly in bangkok where they seem to hold a much greater significance in daily life. i will be glad to leave this city.

this is not my last post i will put some more photos on here and leave a final note next week but this is my last from far far away.

adios amigos,
Ben.