I went to my first "lectures" today, they weren't really lectures, more like introductions to the courses. Journalism was up first, didn't have to get up early thankfully but now I'm a uni I'm finding myself being awake earlier than I would be at home. Maybe because it's the fact my mind subconsciously knows I'm not in my own bed? But I've never had problems with that before, odd! Anyway, I walked down there, found the building and room really easily, walked in and the room was half full already, obviously people liked to get here early! A girl with bright blonde hair (I'm sick of seeing fake blondes now, new trend please) was walking behind me and I said to her "where shall we sit?". Half of the seats were full up so we were the first people to sit on the other side of the room, "let's be the rejects" she said but the room soon overflowed with students! I was amazed at how many of us there were! Another blonde girl sat next to us, she was 20, got talking to each other, found out this other blonde girl (Natalie I think) was doing the exact same subjects as me, yay! The very tanned blonde girl (Lily) said she was also talking Spanish, and that she'd moved from Spain! She hardly knows anyone in England, though you can tell she's English, not Spanish.
Anyway the lecture started, wasn't bad, so many people arrived late! I'd hate to arrive late on my first day!!!! At the end some guy who seems like a prick, though he does work for newspapers so what do you expect, made us do a news quiz. The quiz was based on what had been in the news fairly recently. The problem is, my parents got the daily mail everyday, and now I'm not living there I don't flick through the the paper or watch the news on TV so it seems as if I'll have to make an effort of checking websites! So I got a glorious 9 out of 30. Some smart bitch got 29 out of 30. Natalie got the same as me and poor Lily only got 3! So I didn't feel *too* bad. After that had finished we said we'd see Lily tomorrow and me and Nat tried to find tower block, room 9. Luckily she knew exactly where the building was as her friend had told her this morning, woop! So we got to lesson 15 minutes early, had a chat about a few things before lesson started.
Was a good lecture, though I'm a bit scared of how much work there's going to be as well as tons of reading and I still need to order a load of books from Amazon, have asked mum via facebook for advice on that. One I need to read by week 3 so I might have to go down to the local bookshop and buy that brand new, could be an ouch :/ but we'll see. SO hoping my loan came through today :S. At the end of the class we did a bit of spotanious writing, he called it automatic writing, a phrase that has too many stigmas attached to it. It was Derren Brown or psychic style, it was more like write the first things that come into your head. So the first question was gender? Then age? Occupation? One regret? and one dream? I chose:
Female
24
Teacher
Wanted to be a dancer
To find the love of their life
This was literally the first things that popped into my head, we weren't allowed to think about it too much. Then he said write a paragraph about this character and then and there we just had to write. I think everyone found it surprisingly easy, this is what I wrote:
"I'm Sarah, I'm a teacher, 24 and a boring, old teacher. I teach dance for a load of bratty students who don't apprciate the art of it. Why do I teach dance? Because I never made it as a dancer. Much like the P.E teachers who never made it as a footballer. I live by myself in a cold, lonely flat which I can bearly pay for. Maybe my life would be a little better if I had someone to share it with. But who is interested in dating a teacher? People are actually scared of it, like I'm marking them out of 10 or something. The other teachers reject me too, they are much older than me and dance is not an academic subject..."
I wrote the above paragraph on the spot, very little thought going into it at all. Which, the lecturer said was a good way to create a story, a character, just don't think about it too much. And he's right, there are many times I've wanted to write about something, but have thought about it too much, it needs to just happen! As I read back the paragraph, I realised the main inspiration for it was from my old Sociology teacher, she too was very young for a teacher and used to tell us stories about her life. I remember her telling us about how people react when you tell them you're a teacher, they suddenly get a lot more serious, etc. So, without realising it, I released my inner inspiration! A neat trick. He was also going on about details, when you're writing, include the little details, it makes a story. I try to do this, to an extent in my blogs. I'm amazed anyone actually bothers to read this thing but the fact that people do, drives me to write more. Hopefully by writing this, this counts as being creative to an extent!
I walked home from the lecture, thought some guy was going to run me over on the way home but he just drove by and winked at me from out the window. Creep. Now I'm back here. Chilling out, everything's been mental recently! Stuff will calm down after freshers I hope. Can't afford to be out EVERY night! Must go and make spag bol now, or at least attempt to! Am starving! Pyjama party tonight! Should be a laugh :D.
Monday, 21 September 2009
Sunday, 20 September 2009
A fun filled sunday!
Well, didn't think I'd be so busy today! Got up 10:30ish and decided to try out the shower. Man it is bad. There's hardly any water pressure, which I can live with but it, on a regular basis, changes from boiling hot to freezing cold. It is pretty awful. It was so hot when it was hot I felt like it would burn me so I had to press myself up again the wall. Not good. Somehow managed to survive, got changed, had breakfast, met Ellie in the kitchen, exchanged thoughts of the awful shower so after breakfast I went downstairs to reception to write a complaint in the book. Though something tells me it will be a miracle if they ever fix it. Fuck. Ellie said she was going into town to get some food bits and invited me along so I thought, fuck it, why not, it's a lovely day.
We met Ralph downtown who was trying to get his bearings, poor guy haha. We found Lidl which may now be out best friend for food from now on, dodgy German food but food none the less. Ellie brought loads of veg for £3, winrar. We then found 99p store right next to Lidl, I needed scissors so we went and had a look. But did they have any? Did they fuck! The only pair I could find were for cutting hair :/. 3 pairs of scissors and a comb for 99p. Fuck it, I thought, and brought them. Though I got IDed for buying damn scissors! Thank God I had my passport with me! Jesus do I look like a crazy bitch who's going to go round stabbing people? Okay, fair enough...point taken! Ellie didn't need anything else so we walked back, had lunch, took out the bin bag together, checked for mail, nadda, went back upstairs to retreat for the BBQ.
I didn't end up sitting around for long, poor old Bossman had started chatting to me again then Ellie had knocked on my door saying some bloke she met off the facebook middle mill (the halls I live in) group had called her and invited her down to the Space bar and to bring any friends. She asked if I fancied it and I thought why not. So I showed her how to get to Space (the main student bar) because she didn't know, I also showed her where she had to enrole on tuesday. We got there, she didn't remember what he looked like, we sat there nervously thinking it could be anyone of these guys. The bar was full of guys. The Man U VS Man City football match was on you see! Though Ellie said they were playing pool which narrowed it down to two people. She thought she knew who it was so we walked over..."Are you Alex?" she asked a guy who looked a little older than us. He said yes and said hi to us both, he also introduced us to his friend Warick, unusual name, dead easy to remember. Oh and guess what, Alex is an absolute nutter (I think it runs in the name y'know). We also met a really cool French guy called marcellius (not sure how you spell it!), speaks amazing English, puts us all to shame, love his accent too. I really love the French language/accent.
So we walked back with this group of guys for the BBQ at 4pm. BBQ was good, free burger, chicken and water (shame it wasn't beer!) and great conversation and people. They had a performer there who did some kinda cool circus type tricks, tried to get us all spinning plates, meh, boring. There was also a giant jenga and connect 4 set which I didn't play. There was a local radio station there which played decent music, chart stuff but not bad but the woman who was trying to chat to people and stuff was SO annoying. She was annoying up the point where she walked up to a guy with her microphone and said "What's your name?". He responded "Please don't talk to me", classic! Unfortunately for him, she was persistent! I met lots of different people there too, not all of them stuck out for me but we met and American girl and it was interesting to talk about the differences in her country and politics and stuff. Really, really interesting.
The BBQ got quite boring after a while, we left a little early and went back to Rachel and Ralphs again for a little bit before we decided to go back and sort out our stuff before going to this supposed pub crawl. Spoke to Alex on the phone again for a little bit, telling him about my day and the wide variety of people we'd met (including crazy Alex who wore a red wig to the BBQ and then left it on alllll night, funny guy). We then headed out soon afterwards to Knights bar where they were having a karaoke thing going on. Such good fun. Matt was so drunk he let me and Ellie choose a song for him, we chose Hit me baby one more time! And he did it! People LOVED him for it, shaking his hand, saying he had balls (talk about pointing out the obvious :P), etc. He was so drunk though he went home before 10. Not even kidding. He's a massive lightweight, think he threw up as someone was walking him home. Oh dear, he's going to feel so bad in the morning! Alex was trying to get as many people as possible down to our local pub, The Cocoanut, so we went along, sat down with Lewis (another great guy, kinda reminds me of the Janitor from Scrubs but on drugs or something...he's very...jittery but fantastic), Warick, Alex, the french dude, Rach and Ralph. We had some VERY strange conversations, something about the size of dicks and Rach said something like "Us women don't want our vaginas ripped in half". Alex had his mouth wide open, it was so funny how she came out with that! Warick seems to be a bit of woman hater, is a bit bitter about his ex and was saying that all women eat mens hearts, etc. Though I think he was largely joking!
When it got to about 11 we left, me, Ellie, Lewis, Rach and Ralph went back to Rachs' again! We hung out there for a bit, had some laughs, Rach was so pissed and Ralph was practically falling asleep so we left at 12 to let them go to bed and to get some rest ourselves. Except me who's stayed up for an hour writing two whole blogs. Enjoy! Haha. Course meetings tomorrow, thankfully the first one is at 12:45. WIN. Though it means I finish at 4. Boo. But then, pyjama party baby! :D Can't wait, shall be a laugh :).
We met Ralph downtown who was trying to get his bearings, poor guy haha. We found Lidl which may now be out best friend for food from now on, dodgy German food but food none the less. Ellie brought loads of veg for £3, winrar. We then found 99p store right next to Lidl, I needed scissors so we went and had a look. But did they have any? Did they fuck! The only pair I could find were for cutting hair :/. 3 pairs of scissors and a comb for 99p. Fuck it, I thought, and brought them. Though I got IDed for buying damn scissors! Thank God I had my passport with me! Jesus do I look like a crazy bitch who's going to go round stabbing people? Okay, fair enough...point taken! Ellie didn't need anything else so we walked back, had lunch, took out the bin bag together, checked for mail, nadda, went back upstairs to retreat for the BBQ.
I didn't end up sitting around for long, poor old Bossman had started chatting to me again then Ellie had knocked on my door saying some bloke she met off the facebook middle mill (the halls I live in) group had called her and invited her down to the Space bar and to bring any friends. She asked if I fancied it and I thought why not. So I showed her how to get to Space (the main student bar) because she didn't know, I also showed her where she had to enrole on tuesday. We got there, she didn't remember what he looked like, we sat there nervously thinking it could be anyone of these guys. The bar was full of guys. The Man U VS Man City football match was on you see! Though Ellie said they were playing pool which narrowed it down to two people. She thought she knew who it was so we walked over..."Are you Alex?" she asked a guy who looked a little older than us. He said yes and said hi to us both, he also introduced us to his friend Warick, unusual name, dead easy to remember. Oh and guess what, Alex is an absolute nutter (I think it runs in the name y'know). We also met a really cool French guy called marcellius (not sure how you spell it!), speaks amazing English, puts us all to shame, love his accent too. I really love the French language/accent.
So we walked back with this group of guys for the BBQ at 4pm. BBQ was good, free burger, chicken and water (shame it wasn't beer!) and great conversation and people. They had a performer there who did some kinda cool circus type tricks, tried to get us all spinning plates, meh, boring. There was also a giant jenga and connect 4 set which I didn't play. There was a local radio station there which played decent music, chart stuff but not bad but the woman who was trying to chat to people and stuff was SO annoying. She was annoying up the point where she walked up to a guy with her microphone and said "What's your name?". He responded "Please don't talk to me", classic! Unfortunately for him, she was persistent! I met lots of different people there too, not all of them stuck out for me but we met and American girl and it was interesting to talk about the differences in her country and politics and stuff. Really, really interesting.
The BBQ got quite boring after a while, we left a little early and went back to Rachel and Ralphs again for a little bit before we decided to go back and sort out our stuff before going to this supposed pub crawl. Spoke to Alex on the phone again for a little bit, telling him about my day and the wide variety of people we'd met (including crazy Alex who wore a red wig to the BBQ and then left it on alllll night, funny guy). We then headed out soon afterwards to Knights bar where they were having a karaoke thing going on. Such good fun. Matt was so drunk he let me and Ellie choose a song for him, we chose Hit me baby one more time! And he did it! People LOVED him for it, shaking his hand, saying he had balls (talk about pointing out the obvious :P), etc. He was so drunk though he went home before 10. Not even kidding. He's a massive lightweight, think he threw up as someone was walking him home. Oh dear, he's going to feel so bad in the morning! Alex was trying to get as many people as possible down to our local pub, The Cocoanut, so we went along, sat down with Lewis (another great guy, kinda reminds me of the Janitor from Scrubs but on drugs or something...he's very...jittery but fantastic), Warick, Alex, the french dude, Rach and Ralph. We had some VERY strange conversations, something about the size of dicks and Rach said something like "Us women don't want our vaginas ripped in half". Alex had his mouth wide open, it was so funny how she came out with that! Warick seems to be a bit of woman hater, is a bit bitter about his ex and was saying that all women eat mens hearts, etc. Though I think he was largely joking!
When it got to about 11 we left, me, Ellie, Lewis, Rach and Ralph went back to Rachs' again! We hung out there for a bit, had some laughs, Rach was so pissed and Ralph was practically falling asleep so we left at 12 to let them go to bed and to get some rest ourselves. Except me who's stayed up for an hour writing two whole blogs. Enjoy! Haha. Course meetings tomorrow, thankfully the first one is at 12:45. WIN. Though it means I finish at 4. Boo. But then, pyjama party baby! :D Can't wait, shall be a laugh :).
More new friends! :O
The main highlight of my day yesterday was meeting Ellie, my new neighbour as it were. I went into the kitchen to throw away a banana skin as I spotted her and her mum, they were being briefly shown around the kitchen. I then said "You must be my new neighbour then!" and introduced myself. Her and her mum were really lovely, I showed them where the shower and toilet was then let them get on with unpacking or whatever. I then went out shopping to Sainsburys and brought a few bits for dinner.
Later on when it came to making dinner? Ahaha. I turned the knob that said "oven" on the cooker (as you do), waited for it to heat up...nothing. Ahh fuck. I'd defiantly turned it on. I had already marinaded the chicken in sticky BBQ sauce. I caught Ellie in the corridor with her mum so I asked her mum for advice just to check I wasn't being an idiot! We checked the cooker over. I knew the hobbs worked so it wasn't broken. I said "Oh no how am I going to cook this chicken?!" Ellies' mum suggested I grilled it. Okay, so I carefully somehow managed to take the sticky chicken from inside a bowl onto the grill. Very messy stuff, sticky BBQ sauce everywhere. By this time the rest of Ellies' family had appeared, her sister, younger brother and her dad. Her dad commented on how good to chicken looked. Too fucking right mate! So turned the grill on waited...stuck my hand inside nothing. I paniced yet again, looks as if I was going to have to fry it but I had no idea how to do that and with that sauce it would have been super messy. Then I realised there was heat coming from underneath...some monkey had labelled the oven as the grill and vice versa. Face. Palm.
Sooo after 40 minutes I had a lush meal of chicken, chips and sweetcorn. Thank God Alex has taught me how to cook something haha! Quite a big meal, just what you need when you're going to go out drinking later! Matt had text me just before dinner about going out if I fancied it, etc. I said yeah totally and mentioned it to Ellie so she could come out and meet some people. She told me to let her know if anything was going on, I said I would. Nothing happened till around 9, which is what i'd expected from the previous night, then Andre, a really cool freshers angel knocked on our floor door, I answered it, had a chat with him. He'd seen Alexs' car the other night and he was so jealous of it, asking what car it was and stuff. He loved it, said to meet in the carpark at 9 again and to bring my flatmates. I knocked on Ellies' door and told her but of course John was out, he has mates he knew from college/school in the halls next door so he's always out with them. Which is a little weird because then he's not making new friends but oh well, his choice.
So we headed out, met up with some others and headed off to Knights bar again, we ended up staying there, it's getting more and more bearable every night I think! It closed at 11:30 though so we headed back to some of out new friends kitchen in their block. Rachel (looks like and is an art student, bright pink hair, amazing girl) and Ralph (extremly funny drunk who walked into some bins on the way back and Rachel was helping him the entire way!). Matt came along with us too, love Matt, he's great. We sat around there table, talking about random shit, including gaming and peter andre and Jordan. Rachel was making a point of how much she hated Jordan and that "We've all got fantastic tits because they're real!". Good point, Rach, good point indeed. And hence was born the running joke of "sky remote penis". Jordan once described Peters dick as a sky remote. Seriously, wtf! xD I was laughing until tears that night, mainly because of drunken Ralph haha!
Eventually we headed back, said by the Matt and went to bed. All in all a damn good night. :)
Later on when it came to making dinner? Ahaha. I turned the knob that said "oven" on the cooker (as you do), waited for it to heat up...nothing. Ahh fuck. I'd defiantly turned it on. I had already marinaded the chicken in sticky BBQ sauce. I caught Ellie in the corridor with her mum so I asked her mum for advice just to check I wasn't being an idiot! We checked the cooker over. I knew the hobbs worked so it wasn't broken. I said "Oh no how am I going to cook this chicken?!" Ellies' mum suggested I grilled it. Okay, so I carefully somehow managed to take the sticky chicken from inside a bowl onto the grill. Very messy stuff, sticky BBQ sauce everywhere. By this time the rest of Ellies' family had appeared, her sister, younger brother and her dad. Her dad commented on how good to chicken looked. Too fucking right mate! So turned the grill on waited...stuck my hand inside nothing. I paniced yet again, looks as if I was going to have to fry it but I had no idea how to do that and with that sauce it would have been super messy. Then I realised there was heat coming from underneath...some monkey had labelled the oven as the grill and vice versa. Face. Palm.
Sooo after 40 minutes I had a lush meal of chicken, chips and sweetcorn. Thank God Alex has taught me how to cook something haha! Quite a big meal, just what you need when you're going to go out drinking later! Matt had text me just before dinner about going out if I fancied it, etc. I said yeah totally and mentioned it to Ellie so she could come out and meet some people. She told me to let her know if anything was going on, I said I would. Nothing happened till around 9, which is what i'd expected from the previous night, then Andre, a really cool freshers angel knocked on our floor door, I answered it, had a chat with him. He'd seen Alexs' car the other night and he was so jealous of it, asking what car it was and stuff. He loved it, said to meet in the carpark at 9 again and to bring my flatmates. I knocked on Ellies' door and told her but of course John was out, he has mates he knew from college/school in the halls next door so he's always out with them. Which is a little weird because then he's not making new friends but oh well, his choice.
So we headed out, met up with some others and headed off to Knights bar again, we ended up staying there, it's getting more and more bearable every night I think! It closed at 11:30 though so we headed back to some of out new friends kitchen in their block. Rachel (looks like and is an art student, bright pink hair, amazing girl) and Ralph (extremly funny drunk who walked into some bins on the way back and Rachel was helping him the entire way!). Matt came along with us too, love Matt, he's great. We sat around there table, talking about random shit, including gaming and peter andre and Jordan. Rachel was making a point of how much she hated Jordan and that "We've all got fantastic tits because they're real!". Good point, Rach, good point indeed. And hence was born the running joke of "sky remote penis". Jordan once described Peters dick as a sky remote. Seriously, wtf! xD I was laughing until tears that night, mainly because of drunken Ralph haha!
Eventually we headed back, said by the Matt and went to bed. All in all a damn good night. :)
Saturday, 19 September 2009
Day 2
My first night at uni was not a great one, sleeping wise. My room was freezing due to the radiator not working and my window being broken so a slight breeze came through. It also means I can hear every drunken idiot outside at night, great. I got to sleep eventually though and didn't wake up too late either.
I got up at a rather early 10am, though the guy next door always seems to get up alot earlier! Crazy guy! Unless he had to for enrolment maybe. I should stop calling him the guy next door, his name is John lol. Anyway, last night I realised I'd forgotten a toothbrush so I decided it was vital to go and buy one! I walked down to the shops, sorted out some savings account stuff, found the Sainsburys, huzzah! And then I went into Boots and brought a toothbrush for a quid. Can't go wrong really! I had to use one of those stupid self checkouts, I really do not like them. It's like, what's the point in replacing humans with machines? And they still have to have staff there in case someone doesn't know how to use them or whatever. Utterly pointless if you ask me. Anyway, some Asian woman was helping me out and then said I had a special receipt meaning I could enter a prize draw of £1000 if I rung up this free number and said she provided good service. Pah! Special customer my arse. She wrote her name on the receipt so I could say what great service she'd given me *cough*. I wasn't going to ring the number, even if it was free phone my mobile still may have charged me, didn't want to risk it.
Walked home, realised how godamn lonely I was again, got home and cried. Pathetic I know but I just miss being around people. When you're around your family every single day it's weird when they're suddenly not there! I know I'll get used to it but I just felt awful. I think speaking to my parents on facebook has made it worse, makes me tearful every time I speak to them but at the same time I can't not speak to them! Argh! Dilemmas.
I spent the rest of the afternoon on the computer, talking to various people, trying to feel better about things. Had a banana for lunch as I wasn't really that hungry and it was healthy at least. Then I decided to play my psp in the kitchen for a bit incase I bumped into John. The plan sort of worked, as I was heading back to my room I bumped into him, said hi, asked how he was, etc. He mentioned last night "I knocked on your door but you didn't come out". I said I had a friend round so I couldn't really come out, I asked if I missed much, he said only 10 of them came out and it was really awkward. So in a way I'm glad I saw Alex instead of go out with them if it was that lame! Alex liked my room, was amazed at how big it was I think! Though directing him here was a bit of a kerfuffle! He also dropped me off a load of geeky DVDs to watch when I'm bored one day/night. Woop! I also lent him the resident evil animation on DVD because I thought it was really good, hopefully he enjoys it.
Anyway I was super excited because John said they might all be going out again tonight so I told him to give me a knock, he said he would and he went off out to see his mate. Spent some more time on the comp before heading out to get enroled. I asked reception which was the quickest way to get to the campus, was told of a new way to go that would take me to the back of it. Found the building I needed to go easily as I'd seen it on open day. I was amazed at how long the queue was, unfortunatly the people standing next to me in the queue weren't very talkable, there was one guy stood infront of me on his phone and behind me were two girls taking in Chinese to each other, fail. Had a brief word with some of the other people I met, had to queue several times for things. The whole process took about 50 minutes but it didn't seem that long. Got my ID card in the end, I look so tired in the picture but oh well!
Walked back to my room, made dinner of beans on toast (I know, I know, was going to have pasta but I had no sauce, failcats.). I need to buy some sauce for my chicken breasts today! Will eat one today and freeze the other one before it goes off. If I can ever be arsed to go out :/. I need to otherwise dinner will consist of nothing much tonight :P.
I waited around talking on msn and such, no knock on my door, was thinking I was never going to go out. Then I heard someone knocking on my corridor door (which is a locked door from the outside), so I opened the door and there were two girls there. "Freshers Angels" who were inviting people out, as I was desperate to go out I of course said yes. They said 20 minutes in the carpark. So I got ready and went outside, there was a group of people in the middle of the carpark. I saw John and asked if this was everyone who was going out, it was and there was a lot of them. A lot more than 10 anyway! Got talking to some of Johns' friends, found out they all knew each other before uni, so that's where he's been going all this time! Made me feel better as he only had friends because he already knew them! Later on when in the student pub just down the road from our halls, I got talking to some much nicer people. A guy called Matthew (possible PS3 gaming buddy!) who hung out with a load of girls, hannah and bianca were the ones I spoke to the most though, they were really nice.
The first pub we were at, drink were dirt cheap, rum and coke for £1.60! Even Matthew brought me a drink, was nice of him, I returned the favour when we moved onto a better student pub though. That one was crawling with students, absoutly packed, amazed me how anyone managed to play pool in there! Drinks were still cheap, yay! Will be going there in future, might go there during the day too if the others invite me. We left quite early because some people had to get up early tomorrow to meet parents and Matthew had had a few too many and he didn't want to be ill again so I walked home with Matt, hannah and bianca. We went back to Matthews halls and sat in the kitchen for a bit just chatting. It was about 00:20 when Bianca said she was heading upstairs to bed, I said I had better go too as I was knackered and my body really was starting to ache. So I said goodbye to everyone, nice to meet you, etc and I walked back to my halls which were next door. Got home, text Alex and was on the phone to him until stupid o'clock. What a day! Feel so much better about everything now :).
I got up at a rather early 10am, though the guy next door always seems to get up alot earlier! Crazy guy! Unless he had to for enrolment maybe. I should stop calling him the guy next door, his name is John lol. Anyway, last night I realised I'd forgotten a toothbrush so I decided it was vital to go and buy one! I walked down to the shops, sorted out some savings account stuff, found the Sainsburys, huzzah! And then I went into Boots and brought a toothbrush for a quid. Can't go wrong really! I had to use one of those stupid self checkouts, I really do not like them. It's like, what's the point in replacing humans with machines? And they still have to have staff there in case someone doesn't know how to use them or whatever. Utterly pointless if you ask me. Anyway, some Asian woman was helping me out and then said I had a special receipt meaning I could enter a prize draw of £1000 if I rung up this free number and said she provided good service. Pah! Special customer my arse. She wrote her name on the receipt so I could say what great service she'd given me *cough*. I wasn't going to ring the number, even if it was free phone my mobile still may have charged me, didn't want to risk it.
Walked home, realised how godamn lonely I was again, got home and cried. Pathetic I know but I just miss being around people. When you're around your family every single day it's weird when they're suddenly not there! I know I'll get used to it but I just felt awful. I think speaking to my parents on facebook has made it worse, makes me tearful every time I speak to them but at the same time I can't not speak to them! Argh! Dilemmas.
I spent the rest of the afternoon on the computer, talking to various people, trying to feel better about things. Had a banana for lunch as I wasn't really that hungry and it was healthy at least. Then I decided to play my psp in the kitchen for a bit incase I bumped into John. The plan sort of worked, as I was heading back to my room I bumped into him, said hi, asked how he was, etc. He mentioned last night "I knocked on your door but you didn't come out". I said I had a friend round so I couldn't really come out, I asked if I missed much, he said only 10 of them came out and it was really awkward. So in a way I'm glad I saw Alex instead of go out with them if it was that lame! Alex liked my room, was amazed at how big it was I think! Though directing him here was a bit of a kerfuffle! He also dropped me off a load of geeky DVDs to watch when I'm bored one day/night. Woop! I also lent him the resident evil animation on DVD because I thought it was really good, hopefully he enjoys it.
Anyway I was super excited because John said they might all be going out again tonight so I told him to give me a knock, he said he would and he went off out to see his mate. Spent some more time on the comp before heading out to get enroled. I asked reception which was the quickest way to get to the campus, was told of a new way to go that would take me to the back of it. Found the building I needed to go easily as I'd seen it on open day. I was amazed at how long the queue was, unfortunatly the people standing next to me in the queue weren't very talkable, there was one guy stood infront of me on his phone and behind me were two girls taking in Chinese to each other, fail. Had a brief word with some of the other people I met, had to queue several times for things. The whole process took about 50 minutes but it didn't seem that long. Got my ID card in the end, I look so tired in the picture but oh well!
Walked back to my room, made dinner of beans on toast (I know, I know, was going to have pasta but I had no sauce, failcats.). I need to buy some sauce for my chicken breasts today! Will eat one today and freeze the other one before it goes off. If I can ever be arsed to go out :/. I need to otherwise dinner will consist of nothing much tonight :P.
I waited around talking on msn and such, no knock on my door, was thinking I was never going to go out. Then I heard someone knocking on my corridor door (which is a locked door from the outside), so I opened the door and there were two girls there. "Freshers Angels" who were inviting people out, as I was desperate to go out I of course said yes. They said 20 minutes in the carpark. So I got ready and went outside, there was a group of people in the middle of the carpark. I saw John and asked if this was everyone who was going out, it was and there was a lot of them. A lot more than 10 anyway! Got talking to some of Johns' friends, found out they all knew each other before uni, so that's where he's been going all this time! Made me feel better as he only had friends because he already knew them! Later on when in the student pub just down the road from our halls, I got talking to some much nicer people. A guy called Matthew (possible PS3 gaming buddy!) who hung out with a load of girls, hannah and bianca were the ones I spoke to the most though, they were really nice.
The first pub we were at, drink were dirt cheap, rum and coke for £1.60! Even Matthew brought me a drink, was nice of him, I returned the favour when we moved onto a better student pub though. That one was crawling with students, absoutly packed, amazed me how anyone managed to play pool in there! Drinks were still cheap, yay! Will be going there in future, might go there during the day too if the others invite me. We left quite early because some people had to get up early tomorrow to meet parents and Matthew had had a few too many and he didn't want to be ill again so I walked home with Matt, hannah and bianca. We went back to Matthews halls and sat in the kitchen for a bit just chatting. It was about 00:20 when Bianca said she was heading upstairs to bed, I said I had better go too as I was knackered and my body really was starting to ache. So I said goodbye to everyone, nice to meet you, etc and I walked back to my halls which were next door. Got home, text Alex and was on the phone to him until stupid o'clock. What a day! Feel so much better about everything now :).
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Moving in...
So omg. It comes to the day where I actually have to move out. I've wanted this for so long but now it's just a bit scary! My sister came into my room this morning, early, to say goodbye and give me a hug. I was half asleep and couldn't really open my eyes but I tried my best. Last thing I really wanted was a tearful goodbye anyway. Later on when I was up and dressed, my mum took the dog for a walk and then my auntie and uncle arrived. We packed everything in the car, was amazed it all fitted in! Then, because we got it all done so quickly, we waited around ages for mum to come back with the dog! Eventually she came back so we could get going. Only took us an hour and a half to get there, not too bad. We were a little early to collect keys but there was hardly anyone there so it was okay. She gave me 4 keys, 2 big ones, 2 little ones. It's a little tricky remembering which is which but I think I'll catch on quick.
We packed all my food stuffs in my lockable cupboard (pretty handy) and unpacked most things out of the boxes they needed to take home with them. We then decided to try and find the shops. We went out the back way and eventually found our way to the town centre (i'm only about 10 minutes walk from the Uni and shops, not bad). We went into Bentals and they had an American style on the 3rd floor so I had my (probably) last hearty meal, milkshake, burger and chips. Was yummy but so filling I'm not going to eat dinner tonight! We then decided to get to a supermarket we'd have to use the car to find one. So we walked back to the halls, popped into reception to get a map and a guy there asked if I was going to be here tonight and asked if so, if I was I up for going to a pub tonight with the other people staying in the halls. I said yes even though I didn't know what I was going to actually do about tonight.
Anyway, we went to find a supermarket, found an ASDA by accident, brought some last minute fridge/freezer things and then went back. I took my shopping out of the car and then Alan and Elaine (my uncle and aunt) said goodbye then and there to let me and mum say goodbye alone. My mum went upstairs with me and helped put some of my foods stuffs away, I could feel myself going (emotionally, I mean) when I was in the kitchen because I knew she would be leaving me soon. We went to my room, I hugged her and started crying immediatly. My mum didn't cry. I was shocked to say the least. I think she was shocked too "I didn't think you'd be like this" she said. Then when she finally left she didn't want to leave me because I was upset but knew she had to so she did.
So to cheer myself up I set up the internet connection which was dead easy, wired connection to the wall so no problems whatsoever, amazed at how simple it is! Spoke to a couple of people on MSN about stuff whilst unpacking everything else. Realised no remote with my TV = I can't play with my gamecube :/ fail will have to get my parents to find it and bring it to me when they visit. Something about having your own set of keys and wondering about by yourself is actually very nice, I feel very independant. Still a bit tearful (just had another cry moments ago from talking to my mum on msn) but I'll get over it. It's going to be weird for a while I guess. I said hello to the guy living opposite me, seems nice enough, the other room isn't moved into yet, or they moved in later as I haven't seen them yet. I'm hoping they're at breakfast tomorrow in the kitchen so I can get to know them a little better!
I should have gone out tonight really but I didn't, I am very tired and emotional. I spose it would have taken my mind off it a bit but to being going out (with a guy trying to get me drunk) when I've just moved in is a bit too much for me at the moment I'm afraid! Plus I'm on antibiotics, can't exactly get rat-arsed when I'm taking those! Would probably be okay but don't really want to risk being ill at uni! Only need to take them for one more day anyway :). There's a BBQ on sunday afternoon with free food and drink to meet all the other people staying in the halls! Win! Am definatly going to that, will be a good way to make up for tonight and you can never say no to free food and drink :). It's very strange, sitting here by myself. It's cold, the window is broken (they said they'd fix it) and my heater doesn't seem to work :/. Great start lol. Will go down to reception to tell them tomorrow and I'll ask if there's anything going on during the day because I don't have to enrole until 4pm!
Pretty short-ish blog for such a bit day but I'm rather over-whelmed by it all! I'm sure I'll feel better tomorrow. Just gotta get used to being alone(ish). X
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
FUUUU-
Cannot believe I'm going to uni tomorrow! It's mental! I'm shitting myself lol. I woke up to a text from Marnie, asking what time I wanted her, Alice and Bex to come round. I text back 3:30. Nice and simple right? Well you will find out later...
Once I gotten dressed, taken all my meds and eaten some toast. I went for a walk with mum and the dog up to my nan and grandads. They're on holiday in Blackpool at the moment so they wanted us to water the plants and stuff. There wasn't much to do when we got there so we were in and out in no time but it was nice to get out for a bit. When I got back I stuck on some Nightwish, burnt some incense and got packing! The food stuff and most of the kitchen stuff was already done so it was just packing more personal things really. Got a suitcase full of clothes, a box full of shoes and two dressing up costumes (never know when you'll need those!), photos, stationary, make-up, jewellary. So. Much. Crap! I really don't know how this will all go in the car but it best do!!! My mum made me some tea while I packed and helped me out with a few things but I did most of it myself. Spoke to Alex on the phone for a bit to take a little break from packing. Finished off, then went downstairs and ate lunch, which consisted of chocolate cake and lemonade. Hmm.
So then it was time to wait for my friends to come round. Alice turned up and we sat down and talked for a bit, I wondered where Marn and Bex were. Alice said Bex couldn't come because she was working so I though fair enough. But I thought she'd finished work now??? Oh well, maybe she got an extra shift or something. I then got a text from marn saying: "Hi I'm sure your busy. I'm going to pop to town to get something. So if your free I could pop round after? Whens alice seeing you?". I just flipped. For fucks sake. What part of I'm free at 3:30 so come round then don't you understand?! Alice thought it was rather funny! We both agreed we have no idea how that girl thinks sometimes. I was really pissed off. Why bother Marnie, why fucking bother. Eugh. So me and Alice had a good old bitch about marnie and a chat about uni stuff before she had to go off to work. I got on my tip-toes and gave her a big hug (yes she's really that tall compared to me :P). I'm going to miss her so much! We had an emotional goodbye (don't worry, we didn't cry lol) and off she went.
Later on Marn came round for a bit, we just stood and the doorstep and talked. As we were talking, a man who was running stopped and asked "Is that your baby?" and pointed to a toddler (who I hadn't noticed was there.). Some woman in her car was also shouting to me that the kid could just wonder into the road. For fucks sake. I didn't see it, it was behind a wall. One, don't insult me by suggesting I have a 2 year old. Two, lady, shut up. He was fine. He was just standing there on the pavement, looking quite happy with a bottle in his mouth. She told me to "grab the kid". No. I'm not going to pick up someone elses child! It's not necessary either, unless it was running into the road there is no need to. So I went to next door while the runner and Marn kept an eye on the kid. I shouted, no less than four times "Hello is anyone in? Can you hear me?" (the door was open but there was no doorbell to ring). Finally, the grandmother of the child came out (shouting her grandsons name) and she realised the door was open I said "Yeah he's outside". She rushed past me and scooped him up into his arms. He was grinning away quite happy. No harm done but she should have been more careful! No thank you, she just rushed inside with him. You're welcome -__-. Sigh.
Later on it was MGO time. Only 4 people turned up, Iain, John, Stew and epicsteve. Was good fun but a bit of a letdown. Alas, you can't expect people to be free on a wednesday night! It was nice of the few that turned up to play anyways. When Stew and JB had left, me, iain and Steve played some worms. Was great fun! :) My dad rang during MGO. Wishing me luck and stuff. I must have sounded a bit cold on the phone but I was trying to desperatly hold back tears! I cried but only after I got off the phone. I don't want to cry tomorrow, but I know I will. So embarassing :(.
Once I gotten dressed, taken all my meds and eaten some toast. I went for a walk with mum and the dog up to my nan and grandads. They're on holiday in Blackpool at the moment so they wanted us to water the plants and stuff. There wasn't much to do when we got there so we were in and out in no time but it was nice to get out for a bit. When I got back I stuck on some Nightwish, burnt some incense and got packing! The food stuff and most of the kitchen stuff was already done so it was just packing more personal things really. Got a suitcase full of clothes, a box full of shoes and two dressing up costumes (never know when you'll need those!), photos, stationary, make-up, jewellary. So. Much. Crap! I really don't know how this will all go in the car but it best do!!! My mum made me some tea while I packed and helped me out with a few things but I did most of it myself. Spoke to Alex on the phone for a bit to take a little break from packing. Finished off, then went downstairs and ate lunch, which consisted of chocolate cake and lemonade. Hmm.
So then it was time to wait for my friends to come round. Alice turned up and we sat down and talked for a bit, I wondered where Marn and Bex were. Alice said Bex couldn't come because she was working so I though fair enough. But I thought she'd finished work now??? Oh well, maybe she got an extra shift or something. I then got a text from marn saying: "Hi I'm sure your busy. I'm going to pop to town to get something. So if your free I could pop round after? Whens alice seeing you?". I just flipped. For fucks sake. What part of I'm free at 3:30 so come round then don't you understand?! Alice thought it was rather funny! We both agreed we have no idea how that girl thinks sometimes. I was really pissed off. Why bother Marnie, why fucking bother. Eugh. So me and Alice had a good old bitch about marnie and a chat about uni stuff before she had to go off to work. I got on my tip-toes and gave her a big hug (yes she's really that tall compared to me :P). I'm going to miss her so much! We had an emotional goodbye (don't worry, we didn't cry lol) and off she went.
Later on Marn came round for a bit, we just stood and the doorstep and talked. As we were talking, a man who was running stopped and asked "Is that your baby?" and pointed to a toddler (who I hadn't noticed was there.). Some woman in her car was also shouting to me that the kid could just wonder into the road. For fucks sake. I didn't see it, it was behind a wall. One, don't insult me by suggesting I have a 2 year old. Two, lady, shut up. He was fine. He was just standing there on the pavement, looking quite happy with a bottle in his mouth. She told me to "grab the kid". No. I'm not going to pick up someone elses child! It's not necessary either, unless it was running into the road there is no need to. So I went to next door while the runner and Marn kept an eye on the kid. I shouted, no less than four times "Hello is anyone in? Can you hear me?" (the door was open but there was no doorbell to ring). Finally, the grandmother of the child came out (shouting her grandsons name) and she realised the door was open I said "Yeah he's outside". She rushed past me and scooped him up into his arms. He was grinning away quite happy. No harm done but she should have been more careful! No thank you, she just rushed inside with him. You're welcome -__-. Sigh.
Later on it was MGO time. Only 4 people turned up, Iain, John, Stew and epicsteve. Was good fun but a bit of a letdown. Alas, you can't expect people to be free on a wednesday night! It was nice of the few that turned up to play anyways. When Stew and JB had left, me, iain and Steve played some worms. Was great fun! :) My dad rang during MGO. Wishing me luck and stuff. I must have sounded a bit cold on the phone but I was trying to desperatly hold back tears! I cried but only after I got off the phone. I don't want to cry tomorrow, but I know I will. So embarassing :(.
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
About time!
I had my haircut today for the first time in over a year! (See pic above). Me and mum went to the hairdressers this morning together as she was getting her hair done too, my mum was treating me yay. There was hardly anyone in the hairdressers but it was taking ages for anyone to see to us. There was one woman storming around and we could hear some shouting/argueing going on in the back. I was getting rather annoyed that we were kind of getting ignored, especially when we'd rushed out of the house especially. After being 15 minutes late, a woman came out to cut my hair, her eyes were red and watery, she'd obviously been crying. My mum asked if she was okay but obviously she wasn't going to say what was going on. Bit of a drama going on of some sort but she was okay I think :/. She took a few inches off my hair and layered it but when she'd finished it blimey it was short! I think I'll grow to like it though and I'm sure it will grow back soon. Probably needed a fair bit chopping off anyway, she did notice it hadn't been done in a while! Woops!
When I came home and tweeted about having my haircut, for some very odd reason, Tim from OPM asked for a twitpic! John had also asked for one last night so I waited for my hair to dry off a bit, took a pic on my phone and uploaded it. Tim replied saying: Looks strong and not too short at all. Not sure what strong means but it was nice of him all the same. Rachet also commented on my pic saying it was cute. Aww ^_^. So I feel better about my hair now thanks to OPM haha!
I forgot to mention in yesterdays blog that yesterday I saw my dad for the last time! :(. He'd gone to work for a few days, hence why my auntie and uncle are taking me to uni, plus they have a nice big car...I hope :S. My mum said they might come up to Kingston sometime to go for a walk so they might come and see me but I don't HAVE to see them if I don't want to. I think I'd like to though, obviously it depends if I'm busy but I'm sure I can make time for my parents! Plus, I'm sure a free lunch would be involved ;).
Because I can't go out tonight, Alex said he'd play mercenaries with me which will be good fun. I'll try to be a little better this time :S. Marnie spoke to me last night on msn, she sort of invited herself round on wednesday, along with the others. Does she have to plan everything? Still it will be nice to say goodbye to them, I'll just have to let them know they can't stay for long because I'll have to be getting ready of course and packing and stuff. I am the first one to leave though which is why people seem to be fussing lol. Amy said she'd really miss me, was really sweet of her to say. I promised her we'd have new years drinks or something as I was coming home on the 18th December.
Currently listening to: Evanescence-My last breath
"Can you hear me? Can you feel me in your arms? Holding my last breath. Safe inside myself, are all my thoughts of you, sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight."
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