To coincide with Christmas Eve I begin blog number 24. I have come to the conclusion that these dark winter nights are definitely affecting me, and sitting on social media sites for hours certainly does not help! It seems a little silly to not be full of Christmas cheer, but I am somewhat lacking this year, perhaps due to my concern as to what will fill 2014 for me. 2013 begun as a brilliant year, filled with hobbies, academia and travelling. Finishing University has not been the amazing, liberating event I always thought it would be however, but rather hard, both in terms of trying to find employment to begin a career, and socially with changing friendships. I promised myself I would stick out a potentially boring year of work in order to begin my career after graduation, however the longevity of this is now beginning to concern me, and spending hours on stumbleupon searching travel stories has only increased my desire to get away for a while.
The fate of 2014 is totally unknown to me currently, however before the worry of this consumes me I will test my memory of this year: Jan - Uni exams, I spent a long time over the Christmas holidays writing a long poem for an English module of which I was particularly proud (see 'more poetry') although I'm not sure my teacher agreed! Feb - I don't remember anything of consequence other than lots of dance and singing rehearsals and the odd night out! March - First annual beach bonfire of the year to start the month off! The end of March was a rush to finish my Psychology research project and perform in a new student musical I choreographed. April - Easter holidays involved lots of revision and getting ready for Swansea uni dance show May - Swansea's annual dance show with about 160 student performers and nearly 700 audience members over 2 nights. My last ever 3 university exams, including my housemates having an extremely wild party the night before my last exam! June - Another performance of Kings and Commonors- The Musical, summer ball, performing at beach break student festival with choral society and packing up my uni room! July - Graduation - in Swansea and Liverpool having to wear the heavy gowns during the hottest week of the year! August - Boardmasters festival and a little holiday in Cornwall. Two job interviews and 2 days of work experience to begin my quest for employment in social housing. Sept - An interesting travel experience around Europe both with friends, my sister and alone. The latter something quite scary but also pretty liberating. Begun my graduate placement in housing at Ashford Borough Council. Oct - monotonous and not very interesting! Nov - working, lots of dancing, teaching and seeing old housemates from uni. Dec - it's a work in progress... With all the frivolities of Christmas I don't know if I'll manage to post again this year - so here's to the challenges, changes and surprise ahead in 2014!
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It's nearly Christmas!
Well I notice that I've managed to write 23 blog posts in the last 18 months, not too bad I guess, sometimes there's too much to say to consolidate into a post. I have been very busy for the last 6 weeks, seeing friends, teaching lots of jazz, tap and modern lessons and trying to find myself a permanent job as the end of my graduate internship looms. Well I have now officially come to the end of my first term in the big wide world! It's a tricky place I must say. Whilst I have enjoyed being busy and having the structure of an office job, I feel a little subdued. I enjoy a hectic life and feel the monotony is perhaps not so good for exciting me. I am desperately wanting to branch out and explore somewhere new and a little scary, the safety of living with my parents is not doing anything for my health and well-being! I will get back to noting some of the things I have done in the past few months, and perhaps a conclusive roundup of my first few months outside of education, but for now I must continue with some job applications! |
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