I am on a placement at a hospital in SE Asia. The placement itself is very relaxed and the local staff seem suprised and even irritated when we turn up. Many of my peers have gone travelling already but I spent the past 3 weeks at a different placement so have only just arrived here. I am travelling alone, very short of cash and am very lonely.
This is supposed to be the trip of a lifetime but I am hating it and counting down the days until I see my friend for celebrations at the end of ramadhan. Even then we are distant friends, more polite to each other than emotionally close.
My mother has decided to get married at very short notice and has offered to pay my flight back to the uk ao I can attend. Am I throwing away the chance of a lifetime if I accept? Or cutting my losses? I have 4 more weeks here, then 2 more where I had hoped to go travelling. Im just so very lonely.