Happy Birthday to me.

                                 

I thought I would write a little something to document what I done for my 19th birthday.

It was so different not living at home now I live at Uni. My birthday was on Thursday (27th). Since being born me and my twin sister had never been apart for our birthday, and I loved that! I can be such a socially awkward person and being the centre of attention causes me to be very embarrassed. Therefore, I love having a twin, because we can split the attention on our birthday and atleast I don't feel too awkward (aha, I know i'm crazy). 

 Birthday weekend in the Park    

Anyway, for my 19th my family drove all the way to me to celebrate, I was so excited to see them as I hadn't since the beginning of January when I returned to Liverpool from Christmas break. Although I am home in a week for Easter  I was so appreciative of my Dad being so looking forward to drive the almost 3 hour journey to make the day special for me and Rosie. It ended up being such a good few days and I am really happy I can remember it by writing this post. I took loads of photos, and have chosen some to share on here. 

On arrival

On my actual birthday my Uni friends spoilt me. I was spoilt rotten off my family and friends. I'm not going to list all of the present but a few of my favourite present are a Pandora ring from my best friend, IPhone 5 from my parents and a Disney Mickey Mouse mug from the Uni girls. I appreciate all of my presents and cards so much, and although I do say it ALL of the time, I have the best family and friends I could ever ask for. 

We spent my birthday night in the pub. We had a meal and drinks and it was such a good night. Night with my family always are but this was extra special. I hadn't seen them for months and getting together for a drink was fab. We took plenty of photographs and drank plenty of alcohol. 

A few snaps in the pub

The next day me, Alice (big sister) and my dad spent the morning playing pool, as I had been telling me dad about how 'good' I had gotten at pool since starting Uni. Me and my friends always go to the Students Union to play and in reality I am absolutely rubbish!! Oh well. Not until after challenging my dad to a game did he tell me he used to play all of the time and had his own cue and everything. I was absolutely slaughtered, he was so good at it and I was horrendous. It was very funny. 

            

                

Then we decided to have a walk to Calderstone Park. We discovered the cutest cafe that provided books to read and I got far too excited about this. What a cute idea! I love tea and I love reading. It was newly decorated and very pretty. Luckily it was a week day so there was no children at the park and we got to play on the swings! I love swings haha. 

 

That night there was an event on in the Student Union. It was comedy night, the Union hire comedians and it's always a good night. I had told my sisters about the one I had went to before and said I wanted to take them. We went with my mam and dad and a few of my Uni friends. It was a good laugh.

Today, my family made the journey back home but before that we went back to the park to show my mam and Rosie. We enjoyed a picnic in the sunshine and had a lovely walk. I must have stroked every dog in the park and aw'ed at every baby. I am such a sop. It was sad to see them go again, but I am home in exactly a week so i'm looking forward to that.

I had the best few days with my gorgeous family and I hope you enjoy this post.
Feel free to comment.

Disclaimer: I think we took plenty of photos! this isn't even half of them.

Nerves all over!

After 2 years of Sixth Form it all come down to this one day, A Level results day! Dun dun dun...
I don’t think I had ever been this nervous before in my life. At the time I thought GCSE day was nerve racking, but compared to this I feel like that was nothing. Obviously at the time it meant everything to me but today decided whether or not I was going to Uni in September 2013.

Since leaving College, going back to sit my exams, and Prom, these results were all I thought about. Even on my summer holiday people would ask me about what I was planning on doing next. For me (and I assume most students) this is the dreaded question, because I usually have no idea. I think I just hoped for the best, because what could I do now? There’s nothing you can change once you’ve sat an exam. I hated how long they made us wait for the results.

Finally the day came and my best friend in the whole wide world came to pick me up. She kindly offered to take me to collect my results (with my momma) because I told her I needed her support. I was having many doubts aha. I got to college and was actually quite pleased with my results. B in Health and Social Care and 2 C’s in Psychology and English Language. I don’t think these were amazing grades but I was very proud of myself for receiving them, considering I worked day and night revising for my exams and slaving for hours on end over course work pieces. I knew these grades would get me somewhere, even if it wasn’t straight to Uni.

What happened next I can’t really explain, I burst into hysterical tears of panic. What was I going to do next? I didn’t even have a plan. I had completely changed my mind after applying for a Primary teaching course in 2012.  What the heck is clearing? And how do I go about applying. If you don’t know what clearing is, it is basically the University opening up courses with spaces left after accepting their students who applied first time round. I knew what I wanted to do now but I had no hope that I was going to find a course I’d want to do so last minute. Magically, I did.

A careers advisor noticed the state I was in and asked if he could help. I composed myself and was prepared to take any help he was offering (He probably thought I needed counselling!). He helped me look through the courses I liked the sound of and I went home and spent the rest of the day on the phone, mostly hearing ‘We are currently receiving a lot of calls, please wait until we can connect you to...blah de blah shit’. Finally after Northumbria refusing to answer the phone, I found a course in Liverpool I was really interested in. I dialled the number and expected to wait ages, and straight away a lady asked my student ID and all that crap. I was 60 points off 300 and this is what the course was asking. I rang on a whim to just see what they would say. After 5 minutes on the phone she had put through my application and given me information about accommodation. I was in complete shock. I had just agreed to move 2 hours 30 minutes away from home without consulting my parents once! What da fuqqq. Was I crazy? I think so. Now I had to wait nearly 7 hours for my UCAS to upload and tell me whether I had been successful.

Around 7 hours after constantly refreshing my UCAS page my place had been confirmed. I had been accepted on to the Psychology and Early Childhood course, and I would move away in only 44 days! This was one of the craziest, proudest days of my life.


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FIRST POST!

Helllllo...

I'm Kate, 18 from the North East but Studying in the North West of England. 

I'd say i'm a typical teen, however I know some people would disagree (ha)

I love cats, drinking tea, getting stuck into a good book, writing random things and getting to know new people. I love buying new clothes, trying new makeup and getting dolled up for a night out with my friends and family (who doesn't love that?)

It's definitely time I got back to this blogging business! Unfortunately because i'm such a klutz I managed to delete my entire blog and YouTube when trying to do a good deed and set up my friends Uni E-Portfolio! Such a nightmare.

Anyway, enough of that...I decided to start again today so I have a hobby when Uni is stressing me out, or I just want to capture a special day, share my thoughts or just write a load of babble that hopefully will interest atleast one person. 

I haven't got a theme for this blog I think it will be just full of random shiz. So abit about me, Uni life, Mental health, Makeup/fashion and general lifestyle shabang.

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