You got to be fast to get on this band wagon!

Hi, :) Guess what I'm mega happy! I just made student guide! So pleased, because it was mega harder to get though. In the interview they said that they had like 90 students already and that they weren't too keen on taking 3rd years on, because well its their last year and they are so busy. Also there was like four other people there who had so much experience working with people and they had done so much in their lives and here was me and abi, just in our twenties and not a lot to show for it. Well, I did put in about how I already worked for edge hill and the fact that my blog had got some great comments and how people were thinking about coming to edge because of my posts. Also said that my tutor, yesterday told me I was to become student leader in a new project where some students go into primary and secondary schools and do workshops with the kids. So I'm mega looking forward to doing that, get some experience and see if I'm any good at that.

I'm still applying for my teaching, but going to do my MA too, busy busy. Nothing on my LRC post yet, still not really sure I need to do that now. but still, hopefully that'll be okay. What else....I like scriptwriting, well sort of, got some books out to do that and have made a list of script writer people to study for my first essay. Reading north and South right now, because its the first novel I'm studying. Read like 5 chapters now and I think its pretty good. Though like Jane Eyre its going to go on forever!

Celebrating coming back to uni on the first pub quiz night!

Got one of my ordered books today as well- Instruction manual for swallowing, still waiting on The Ice people though. More are due tomorrow. I'm going to Anime Society tonight in the hopes of broadening my horizons a bit more. Oh and I have to stay this weekend for the training session for student guide- so no going home which will mean that I've done three weeks at uni, cause normally I just do two and then I really want to go home. But I need to start learning that its okay not to go home all the time.

Now I'm rambling a bit, but so much is happening, like someone opened a massive door and all this stuff is coming out and I'm like I want to be on that band wagon and that one and that one cause that sounds mega good....shocking really! I just hope I've not taking on too much really. We'll have to see...juggling stuff is a big part of life too, so hopefully I'll get more experience with that now.

Tea's in the oven and I'm just waiting to hear if Abi will be spending the day training with me or not. She's had no emails yet. Fingers crossed for her. :)

Another happy photo

First day at uni

So I thought before I had my tea I'd post on my blog and get some stuff out of my head. This stuff is not about my 3rd year at uni and my classes, though I've to say my first one-Modernism was good this morning, though they messed up the class rooms big style! But the hot American boys in my class made up for that! This post is about what's going to happen after I graduate.....thing is we had another lecture on this today and though they have been hounding us since we first started uni, it just doesn't get any easier.

My problem is that I was thinking of doing a teaching course, but it seems that its not going to be easy to get on that. Though I'm applying for the further and higher eduction course, it seems I need some experience at teaching and I've no idea where to even begin with that one! I'm left to do it by myself and my head already hurts with just filling in the form. I know I've to do this though and I'm not going to let it stop me. So I'm going to try and speak to my tutor tomorrow about it and see what he says.

I start script writing tomorrow too, that's my worse subject. I can't write in the style they want me too, but I'm going to try harder this year! Bug my tutors, I guess. lol. I'm stressed about stuff right now, though I know I shouldn't be! I just need to chill out, so its off to the pub quiz tonight! Lots of fun and drinking and though people have already pulled out I don't care. I'll go by myself if I've too!

Making my tea now and trying to come up with a group name....got a meeting on Thursday about me applying to be a student guide. Hope I get that and also the LRC post. I've been thinking about doing the uni mag too, but I think that might be too much, shall have to wait and find out. Think I've been boring enough for one day now. Hopefully I'll write something more fun next time and with photos too!

New house!

Hey everyone, this is the view from my new room! and the rest of the photos are the first from my new house in ormskirk. I moved in on Sunday and have only just finished sorting my room out last night. Had to wait because the landlady was being funny about putting posters up on her newly painted walls. But the house looks so bare! It least it feels homely and we are going to buy some more posters tomorrow at the freshers' fair.

The best feature of my room has to be this! my double bed, which I only found out I had got the day before I moved in. Luckily my mum lent me some sheets - purple satin ones! but they do fit in with the theme of my room. Only problem is I have to be careful getting out of it, because the sheets are slippery and I already fell out of it on my first night! But I like it anyway. I'm sleeping really good too and that's something I know I don't do well with when I'm away from home.

The first wall in my room, my wardrobe and the bean bag chair -Ally's shrine. My room is massive! I like it a lot and I've checked out how my housemates have set up their rooms and I decided that though I wasn't bothered about which room I got, I'm glad I choice the one I did, because its the best! I love the house though AKA The Pineapple, there's a good size living room and kitchen and its closer to uni. Only problem is that there's a very busy main road just outside, and though its very noisy I'm not going to let this get me down.

Some idea of how big my room is and my door! the sticky note that my housemate suggested says the room the size of a planet. I've to agree there. :)

That's mostly it. I applied for two jobs at uni and I need to apply for my teaching course too. Already the days are flying by. I'm also wearing my contact lenses too and its messing up my vision so its time to go!

Autumn knitting for xmas

The summer has all but faded now, yes its still clinging in the warm air and the sun is still warm when it appears, but there is that unmistakable hand of autumn in the air now. The nights are getting darker and longer, there's a cold touch to the ground and walls and there's so much more rain now. So, its time for people to spend more time in doors and what better way to pass the evenings then knitting?

That's what my mum is doing in the photo, knitting me an autumn jacket. I can knit too, but it takes me forever and I'm not as fast as her and I just seem to get bored unless its something small like a patch for my blanket or a part of something my mum is knitting. I hear that knitting is coming back now and that people are buying more knitted things in the shops. There's just something different about knitted clothes and I know that most people-me included-remember times when wearing something knitted made you look stupid. Not the way now it seems!


This is my latest jacket, the one my mum is knitting above. Its a summer one, but she's making the sleeves longer so that it'll be more suitable to autumn. Its the same blue colour, but a different wool and I'm hoping she'll have it finished before I go back to uni next week!





I'm so looking forward to that, can't wait to move in and all my housemates are just as excited as me now. I've already packed all my clothes- just need to find some more socks! Isn't that always the case? I'm sure the washing machine has eaten them and just left me with all the odd ones! I'll have to go to Primark and buy some more again.

I'm already making plans for winter and Xmas too. Like my next photo; a winter coat, yeah knitting again! But this one is going to be my Xmas present. The wool is mega expensive - sirdar's Nomad, its really soft and woolly, but light at the same time and mum's going to make me a hood. So it'll be a great winter coat then.

But of course before winter and Xmas, comes autumn and Halloween! One of my favourite times of year to be sure! And that also seems to be coming back, well in the shops and some areas. Halloween is becoming a bit like Christmas really; people have forgotten what its about and how to celebrate it. They seem to use it as an excuse to behave wrong and ignore others beliefs.

Anyway, in my true fashion, I've begun my Halloween shopping. As its easier to buy the things I want to add to my Goth/Halloween collection before everyone else decides that they need to buy things! So I started with 2 signs last week and I brought the one below today. I thought I could use it in the kitchen when I host my Halloween party. The plans for that are already under way. I've my costume already now-because I had to hand make it with my mum. I'm going as a Gypsy fortune teller, which was suggested by my best friend because I'm tarot card reading at the party. The theme is movie/tv/anima characters and I still have a lot to plan!

Lastly, the gnomes are back! They are also on the knitting list, two of them this time and they are for two people who got left out both times around, but I've now decided that its time they join the gang. But these gnomes are mega special and of course top secret at the moment, because I know that one of those said two people reads my blog, so I can't write or show my plans on here. So for now here's a photo of the gnomes who were made Xmas 2008 and who led the start of me giving gnomes out to my friends. May their numbers continue to grow!

Last weekend at home

Hi, know I've not written in another age, but I've been busy once again. Busy with my volunteering job, getting use to contact lenses and making future plans at uni. Also I've been reading The Black Dagger Brotherhood and watching Heroes. So yeah, almost a total waste of another summer. Not been much in the mood to write though, but I've to say in reading BDB I've realized that I can fix the problems I've in my novel set in Liverpool. This is my plan now, to go back to uni, get back into working and writing and try to fix my novel.

It sounds a lot of work, but I've done it before! When I did my GCSEs I wrote a whole series of novels I think there was like 7 or 8 books in all and they range from 50-70 odd pages (was aimed at teenagers) Then during my as/a levels I wrote 3 adult novels (My first trilogy and also first novels about vampires!) I'd done two years of animal care before that, but I suddenly started writing again and was inspired to carry on by a friend who I'd met in high school. She then wrote herself into the second book, (which reminds me I need to bring her back from the dead at the end of that novel!) and helped me edit the first one as my college years drew to an end.

Then there's been uni and my chance to prove myself. Mostly its the fact to prove to myself that I can write and I can turn my hobby into something else- my dream job. Also its to prove to people who said I couldn't get into uni and pass, wrong, because there's been a lot of them in my past and now I can already feel it happening. I mean I've written another trilogy now -minus 1 book, have written a few single novels, though most I still have to finish and I've another trilogy- a fantasy one still in the making. I've also written poems and short stories now and proving that I can write not just about vampires but about other stuff too.

I guess I sort of got on to that subject because I've just learned about my second best friend failing to pass her second year. I also know that my housemate has also failed and I've heard of other people doing like wise. This lead on to me thinking about how far I'd come and how though it seemed against all the odds I'd passed my second year with a 2.1 overall. Yet there are others, who I believed were better then me or just had put in more then me, who I believed would pass, but have failed for whatever reason. So in a way I'm sorry to all those who haven't passed and hope they have better luck in the future and me well.... I stand by what my parents have always told me; you can only try your best.

So I'm going to turn to my final year at uni and keep that saying close to my heart, just because that's what I do!