FAST FORWARD ONE WEEK
So it's been a week & I've moved into my new home! Yesterday was a long and tiring day but we (me, mum & dad) made it! Enjoying some KFC & Krispy Kremes along the way. Which was a delight. Today was where I finished off unpacking and making my room mine. Adding the little finishing touches, which actually make a massive difference. I think I'm going to write a blog on making your student bedroom feel like a home.. or something along those lines, because I've really enjoyed making my room, mine. Well kind of. All of the unpacking is quite a tedious, looooong task but when your room starts to look likes yours, you know it's all worth it. I don't understand how some people can go to uni with virtually no stuff, I just couldn't comprehend ever doing that. It wouldn't be okay.
I can't believe that next week I start my final year. It's actually mad. But over the past two years I've grown so much as a person and become so independent, I love it. I've become more confident in who I am, although at times I still can be an anxious person, I've still come leaps and bounds since my 18 year old self. My 18 year old self would be nervous about catching the train on her own, let alone flying on an aeroplane sat next to absolute strangers and then getting off the plane and navigating myself through the airport to find my friends on the other side (I did that btw). My now 20 year old self now travels around London alone quite happily without any worries or fears. When I was about 15 I came to London with a friend and every time I went to a tube station I got worried because I would lose phone signal (obviously, I was going underground) and then panic I'd be attacked. What a hypochondriac I could be, but it was true I always thought the worst. I look back and I'm not embarrassed because, well, that was me and that was how I truly felt. I could be a very anxious person, but now I've learnt that there's nothing to feel anxious about and I can do what I like and no one's thinking "that girl's an idiot". It was always all in my head.
So now it's time to put my head down and work hard but remember to enjoy myself too. I've got myself a lovely home, a job, friends up and down the country, a supportive boyfriend & family, now it's time to do something for myself and prove to myself I am capable of doing well and succeeding.
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| Best doughnuts ever!!! |
I can't believe that next week I start my final year. It's actually mad. But over the past two years I've grown so much as a person and become so independent, I love it. I've become more confident in who I am, although at times I still can be an anxious person, I've still come leaps and bounds since my 18 year old self. My 18 year old self would be nervous about catching the train on her own, let alone flying on an aeroplane sat next to absolute strangers and then getting off the plane and navigating myself through the airport to find my friends on the other side (I did that btw). My now 20 year old self now travels around London alone quite happily without any worries or fears. When I was about 15 I came to London with a friend and every time I went to a tube station I got worried because I would lose phone signal (obviously, I was going underground) and then panic I'd be attacked. What a hypochondriac I could be, but it was true I always thought the worst. I look back and I'm not embarrassed because, well, that was me and that was how I truly felt. I could be a very anxious person, but now I've learnt that there's nothing to feel anxious about and I can do what I like and no one's thinking "that girl's an idiot". It was always all in my head.
So now it's time to put my head down and work hard but remember to enjoy myself too. I've got myself a lovely home, a job, friends up and down the country, a supportive boyfriend & family, now it's time to do something for myself and prove to myself I am capable of doing well and succeeding.
So here goes nothing!
Shannon x
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