Let's start with one of the big ones: university. If you're a regular reader of my lil blog, it goes without saying that I love my uni course (I study journalism, for anyone that didn't previously know) - I honestly and wholeheartedly think that it's the right course for me and, although second year so far has been intense, I'm really enjoying it. The back end of first year was a fun time for me, also - if you read my first year round up blog post back in June, you'll know that my uni experience didn't exactly have the best start but, in the third semester in particular, things ~ dramatically ~ improved and, ultimately, second year had a great start. I've made new friends and had great experiences with my new friends. It's funny, actually; my pre-existing uni friends (for lack of better terminology) say that I've somehow transformed into a social butterfly, and I guess they're kind of right. Last year, I felt like I wasn't that confident and was probably slightly stand offish and stuck to what - and who - I knew. This year, I'm happy to talk to anyone. I'm still the same in the sense that I probably won't open up to you until I get to know you but it's all about baby steps, right? Like I mentioned in one of my recent posts, this semester bought us the joys of a group project entailing the launch of an entire magazine and, once I have the physical copies of my magazine, I want to write an entire blog post on that experience but, for now, let's just say it was challenging.
In terms of blogging, on the whole, I've been disappointed with myself this year. I look back to January and it started off so well but then, particularly over the summer, it just went downhill - to put it bluntly. Towards the beginning of the year, I had at least two posts going up a week whereas, towards the end of the year (specifically November), I had none. For someone who prides themselves on being a regular, consistent blogger, that's embarrassing - and, while I am glad that I put my university work first during that time, it's disappointing that I didn't manage my blog as well as I thought I could but it'll be back to being my priority as soon as possible - so there's some positivity for you.
In terms of friendships, I feel like I’ve really solidified my friendships this year - I know exactly who I can depend on and who I can’t. Sophie and Lauren (as always) are people who have made my year. They’re always up for anything, always here if I ever need them and they’re genuinely my best friends - people I wouldn’t want to live my life without. I feel like I knew this all along but, particularly over the summer, I feel like we became a lot closer. We spent pretty much every single day together and going back to university in September was so incredibly hard - simply because we didn’t really want to leave each other (how very cringe).
Looking to uni friendships, it’s strange because, while I’m still close to my core group of friends from first year, we were all separated in classes so haven’t really managed to see eachother as much as we’d liked. But, with that being said, I’ve made friendships that I wouldn’t want to change for the world. People that I didn’t think I’d get along with, and people who are the complete opposite of what I am have become some of my favourite people in the world and I genuinely don’t think I would’ve been able to get through the semester without them. Again, super soppy (sorry) but, sometimes, you just meet people and you click - the friendships are easy and comfortable. With my uni friends, I feel like we’re all completely different from one another but are all on the same page and would (and do) feel comfortable to call eachother our if we don’t agree with something. And that is my favourite kind of friendship.
Let’s hop on over to the elephant in the room that is that of my love life. To summarise, it’s non existent. If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you’ll know that I was seeing someone over the summer (he was lovely, but it didn’t work out - obviously) and you’ll know that I downloaded Tinder (perhaps mistake number one?). The only real updates that I have are that I went on a date with a guy in London - seemed like a nice guy, I had a fun time but then it kind of went pear-shaped when I didn’t really want to carry on. Here are a couple of quotes for your entertainment: ‘go home, talk to your mum, sort your life out’, ‘you’re a nightmare, good luck to the lucky lad that lands you’ and, finally, my favourite - ‘sort your fringe out while you’re there kid’. So that kind of summarises that situation - but, looking back, I do find it quite funny. Aside from that, there’s not much to report - yeah, I’ve talked to people but nothing really else. Either way, any boy / Tinder experience from the year has been an obviously learning experience - but primarily a bit of entertainment, and I’ve got plenty of stories to tell so it’s not all bad. And who needs a man anyway?!
In terms of experiences from the year, I’ve had an incredible year. From going to Rome in May to LA in July and all my little road trips and escapades between, I’ve travelled a fair bit this year. And don’t even get me started on gigs - I won’t go into detail but I’ve been to probably a ridiculously large amount of gigs this year (see list below) and it’s been the best time of my life. We all know how much I love a good gig.
- The Hunna
- Thriller Live!
- Imagine Dragons
- Madison Beer
- The Vamps
- The Vamps (again)
- All Points East festival (Catfish and the Bottlemen, The Neighbourhood, Blossoms, The Hunna etc.)
- New Hope Club
- Summertime Ball
- The Vamps
- The Vamps (again, lol)
- Fusion Festival
- Jason Derulo
- Lawson
- Coasts
- 5 Seconds of Summer
Overall, 2018 has been a pretty great year for me. Yeah, it’s been a wild ride and there have been a lot of ups and downs but I don’t think I would’ve wanted it any other way. My friends have been my rock this year and the summer, especially, was my favourite summer of all time - I had a great job, saw The Vamps a fair amount, made some incredible memories and was the happiest I’ve been in a long time. Semester one of year two was hard but I’m proud of how I handled it and the work that I produced throughout. If I had to summarise the year in a non-direct sentence, I think it would have to be: started off the year not liking coffee, then liked coffee, drank too much coffee and now I can’t drink coffee (even though I am obsessed) because it gives me really bad chest pains. An absolute rollercoaster. But I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Thank you so much for the support throughout the year and - again - I’m sorry for my lack of posting within the past couple of months. The only way is up from here (I hope) so things should improve. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and has a banging new year - don’t celebrate too hard; ah, who am I kidding, go wild.
See you in the new year.
Comments
Post a Comment