Sadness

Isn't it a horrible feeling when a good friend or 2 (or 3 in my case) move away to further their studies and become something of themselves? Well, I have that feeling at the moment.
So today, 3 of my friends moved away from the town to start their new lives in Portsmouth as University students. I felt kind of heartbroken to have heard of their departures. A piece of me felt empty when they were gone. Although having had known them for approximately 2 years (3 years with the other friend). It is like that feeling when it is your first day at school and you leave your mum/dad for the first time to go into this BIG OPEN world.
Well I wish them all the best anyway and hope to see them in the next week or so when I go down and visit :)

Moving on from that, i also started back at my old employer today having had left them back in June to pursue a job in a busy airport. What a mistake that was. It is weird to walk back into a job you had suddenly left to then be greeted by the same faces who welcome you with open arms. It felt great as over the last few days I felt that they wouldn't want me back and possibly think 'oh it's her again, urgh go away' so it was nice to feel welcomed again.

These two stories made me realise; no matter where you are, who you are and what you do...People are going to miss you. It is a tremendous feeling.

Freshers Week

Freshers Week, what exactly IS Freshers Week?
Well, in my opinion, it should consist of meeting a bunch of people at your university, in your class and then getting totally wasted until stupid o'clock. So yeah, that happened, but also some pretty irrelevant stuff happened too.

First there was a pathetic Student Services lecture on which was pointless. One comment did have many students in fits of laughter 'Shamefully, we do not have a chapel on site but we do have a leaflet.' Yeah, like someone is going to pick up a leaflet on religion. Well they might but there is a church next door to the campus which is what made me laugh.
Secondly, we had a health and safety lecture on how we need to be safe around the campus and not do stupid things. They showed a picture of a student who studied Textiles who had a sewing needle through part of their finger which looked extremely painful and kind of make me think 'You obviously didn't take care.'
Thirdly, this is what got on my nerves the most during this whole week, it had to be the waiting around. If I was to estimate the time I spent sitting in the campus gardens, in the SU or hanging inside my friends hall; it would probably calculate to around 12 hours. Thats like a waste of a day in my opinion.

To be quite frank; FW hasn't been 'my cup of tea' as i expected a lot more to have happened other than 'common sense' lectures about how to be safe and who to turn to if you miss home. All I can say is; ROLL ON MONDAY WHEN THE REAL STUFF HAPPENS!

Daytrip

Tomorrow i will be venturing on my first ever ferry trip to France without my parents by my side. Obviously, I have been to France on a ferry before but never on my own. My parents have always been by my side and I've always been in a car. This time I will be experiencing the life of a foot passenger. I don't know whether to be excited about it or scared because i have no clue as to how it works with being this so called 'foot passenger'. Luckily, I am not going alone as i have a friend tagging along with me. I would have been utterly scared if i were alone on this adventure.

I am doing this little day trip as a 'Getaway before i get to university' thing because I thought when i start uni I won't have as much free time as i had when I was at school or college. But there is one thing i am excited about with the whole university experience thing; I'm off to Los Angeles with the money I am getting with my student loan :D
Basically, my uni life will consist of lectures/seminars, exams, partying and holidays. Great life I am about to start I think. :)

Last few days

So, i start university on Monday for the first time ever (should have started this year but I couldn't due to my appalling GCSE grades) and I have to admit I am absolutely scared about it. I keep asking the same questions to myself;
-Will I get along with the other class members?
-How will it differ from College life?
-Am I going to succeed as well as I did in School & College?
And many other questions; but I will end up being here all day.
I feel I am semi-ready for uni as i have my new laptop (Apple MacBook, notebooks etc. The only thing missing is somewhere to live. Unfortunately, I haven't gained accommodation because the uni say I live too close to their 'catchment' area. I never knew 2 hours counted as 'NEAR'. Another thing I thought was a joke was the deposit that the uni ask all students who gain accommodation ask for. £300 is a lot of money to a student, especially to a young person who hasn't got a job and has parents who don't wish to cough up that money either.

In other news, I am gutted that a fellow blogger I have been a fan of, and had the privilege to meet, has cancelled his blog. His blogs never failed to amuse me and the stuff he came out with was utterly hilarious. I wish him every success with his studies and also the travelling he wishes to pursue in the future.