That's right, summer holidays. Wouldn't have it any other way though, I love having such warm winters.
But sorry BW, you're missing a couple of vital factors which keep me from staying.
Firstly, the reason I originally left still exists: my mother is still
seriously ill. I am the closest thing she has to a full-time caretaker - I am away at school for between seven and eight hours each weekday, and almost all my other time is spent awake, ensuring that if she needs to be taken to hospital, I can make it so. Sleep is a precious commodity which I hardly get these days - three or four hours on a good weekday, four or five on a good weekend.
Secondly, if I do stay, I will be committed to a great deal more work than any of you ordinary HLPers - if I stay, I stay as project leader. If not officially, then effectively. I cannot stay here and not provide any help here to projects or people who need my services - that is and has always been my main role here. I might as well not be here if I don't fulfil that position. And if I do fulfill it... well, the reality is that the rest of my life will go down the drain, and my physical health will probably suffer (sleep deprivation is an effective torture method, I've discovered).
Thirdly, I genuinely need to place that degree of work into this year. I won't explain to you the mechanics of it, but I need to be a source of income for my family as soon as possible - which I can do if I receive a co-op scholarship and get an allowance from my sponsor. And it goes beyond that, too.
As you can see, there are just a few extraordinary circumstances that put it out of my reach.
