Frodo
looked at Sam rather startled, half expecting to see some outward sign of the
odd change that seemed to have come over him. it did not sound like the voice
of the old Sam Gamgee that he thought he knew. But it looked like the old Sam
Gamgee sitting there, except that his face was unusually thoughtful.
‘Do
you feel any need to leave the Shire now – now that your wish to see them has
come true?’ he asked.
‘Yes,
sir- I don’t know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem
to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road,
into darkness; but I know I can’t turn back. It isn’t to see Elves now, nor
dragons, nor mountains, that I want – I don’t rightly know what I want: but I have
something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see
it through, sir, if you understand me.’
Almost a year ago, the 22nd to be exact, I moved
to Mullingar in Ireland. I moved to explore new heights and to fulfil a dream
that I had had for a long time. The feeling of sleeping my last night in
Denmark before my move is still very close to me and it feels like it was
yesterday. The excitement and nervousness is something that you will probably
never forget, because jumping out from a cliff (at least that is what it felt
like) made the adrenaline pump so badly. Also just moving when you don’t know
anybody or anything is scary in itself especially when you are in the situation
I was in – with no connections to anyone in Ireland. Jump on the plane and see
how it goes, that’s the best advice I can give.
Unfortunately I didn’t get to live in Ireland for that
long, because of some issues with my student grants. My stay which I was
expecting to last for at least two years were cut down to only five months. I
chose to leave even though I might have been able to make the money last. But
later on it was the right decision that I took, because I would have been
forced to move back to Denmark anyway. In June we found out that my mother has
cancer, so there was no way that I would have stayed in Ireland and I was
extremely happy that I had already moved back home when we found out.
“I wish it need not have happened in my
time” said Frodo. “So do I” said Gandalf “and so do all who live to see such
times. But that is not for them to decide”
I also love my new flat a lot and I am really happy about
where I live in Denmark at the moment even though I haven’t been able to stay
there for long. The thing is that since August I have been travelling around
with a company that arranges Oktoberfests around Europe as part of my studies.
So far we’ve been five weeks in Sweden, one in Denmark and four in London and
one in Birmingham. We still have one week in Manchester and then two weeks in
Italy before we finish this tour. And I even got to go to Edinburgh for three
nights as well. I enjoy travelling around and doing work like this a lot, and
the best thing about the fact that I enjoy it a lot is that this is what I have
always wanted to do with my life. So for me I am in a satisfying state of my
life since I have realised that I don’t just dream about this kind of work, I
also like it very much, which is one step in the right direction. However this
job means that you see a lot of hotel rooms, mud, rain and drunk people and you
don’t really see anything of the cities you visit, because there’s almost
always something to be done. But it’s okay that you don’t get to do any
sightseeing because in the end you’re there to work.
This year has had its ups and downs and a lot of
adventures, but by far the best thing that happened was William, my nephew who
was born in July; just a few days before I had to go on tour!
After the event in Millwall Park, London
Canary Wharf, London
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
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