Since coming home almost a month ago i have had the most amazing time. I'm not quite sure how i am going to survive going back to Nottingham when i have had my mum doing every little thing for me. Don't get me wrong i have missed my university friends so much but nothing beats home comforts. The biggest thing about being at home is the fact i have had so much time with my little niece who is two months old. When she was first born i was living in Nottingham so i only got to have two weekend visits to see her, so being home for a month has been amazing. Also spending time with my brother and his girlfriend, seeing my grandparents and my parents. Special moments were made this holiday, like my niece's first christmas and my best friends 19th. I have truly being spoilt this christmas, everyone has missed b=me whilst being at university but now I've been at home a month everyone is used to me being here. I have loved every moment of being at home this christmas especially seeing my friends but i need to get back to university because being at home is becoming to normal again. I know when i get back to uni ill miss home but being back with my uni mates will be brilliant. Another amazing thing has been moment has been visiting my old school, to see all my old performing arts family. It was amazing seeing them and finally becoming somebody who they looked up to and not just somebody they took the mick out of. Being home has been amazing but serious get me back to nottingham. |
0 Comments
2014 has been an eventful year to say the least, it's been a hard year full of sadness,new beginnings, loss, love, happiness and exams. Although its been a hard year i wanted to finish the year sharing my favourite memories from the year. 2014 began with myself and my parents sitting in our living room watching Jools Holland like we do every year. I love seeing in the new year with my parents especially now that i am getting older because whilst i could be out getting drunk i am with the people who i love the most before i get to the age where i am seeing in the new year with my own family. January was quiet as always. February was the month where i celebrated 6 months of my first real relationship, it was also the month when i found out my brother and his girlfriend were going to have a baby and that i would be an aunty for the first ever time. February as you all known is Valentines Day, which i spent my first ever Valentines with somebody. It was most of all the month in which i had my interview for Nottingham University to study Broadcast journalism where they recorded me doing a broadcast and where i had to write 200 words on why i wanted to be on the course. It was the scariest day but it confirmed that this was the course i wanted to study and what i am currently doing at University.
March was a huge month for me because it was St. Patrick's Day, In Birmingham it is considered the best day of the year. Luckily the sun was shining, the parade was in full force for families and couples to watch. However, for the teenagers and young adults we were all too busy drinking from 8am and in the Old Crown pub in Digbeth singing to irish songs and downing the alcohol. As always i got drunk to quickly and did not end up staying out and went home at 4pm drunk. The following week was my 18th birthday, but as always not many people wanted to come out for it because they'd blown their money on Paddy's Day. So it was myself my family and my boyfriend who went to TGI's, i was spoilt with beautiful gifts and then proceeded to Pop World in town with myself, and 5 friends. I also took a day trip to London with my boyfriend for my birthday, he paid for us to go to London, go to Madame Tussards and go on the London eye which was terrifying. It was an amazing day, probably one of my top 5 days of the year. The next big thing was May which was the month where i went to see Lord Of The Flies at Birmingham Hippodrome with my parents, i loved it as usual. May was also the month in which hardcore revision started and i had to resit my english exam to upgrade my previous grade. I spent most of May in the Drama studio practising my Performing Arts exam piece and in the library 12 hours a day trying to remember everything i'd learnt in the year. Most of all it was the month in which i left my Sixth Form, we had a great leavers day with an assembly and we all got to dress up fancy, we then proceeded to the local pub to drink in the sun, then to our friends house to drink MORE through the night. (if anyone thinks i am an alcoholic i swear I'm not). June was the devil of all months as it was the month of all my A Level Exams. The month had a horrible with a loss i my life. First exam was the dreaded english exam which i thought i was fully prepared for. 10th june saw the Media Exam which i enjoyed weirdly enough as i knew the exam inside out and had lots to write about. But....19th June.....my Performing Arts Exam in which i had to be a demented child, a girl raped and abused by her father for 30 years, emotionally and mentally damaged. An exam in which i had to talk about being raped by my father and how i enjoyed it, murder, anger and hanging myself. The exam itself was performed by myself and two other amazing girls, it went amazing but so much of my life and effort was consumed by the exam it was good to have it done with. However, the next day, 20th June, was PROMMMMMMMMM! On this day i had tanned, got my makeup professionally done, hair curled and in my dress. Then i had 5 girls over and 3 boys for pictures, food and drink and then we all proceeded to the prom. Prom was amazing, we had photos in the gardens and danced, drank and best of all had shots with my teachers. Then i went to Propaganda, a club, where i danced and drank til 5am. Prom was my favourite day of the year. July was the month where i performed in the school summer show which was a medley of our Head Mistresses favourite songs and musicals as she was leaving the school for retirement. I enjoyed the show, old friends came back to perform it was nice having the whole performing arts family back together. Performing is my favourite thing in the world and doing a final show with all my friends around me was sad yet comforting. September was the biggest month of the year! The month started with my best friend Ciara moving to University, she was still living in Birmingham but in halls. It was then my brothers girlfriends baby shower, i got to meet new people who were now family and got to play sperm games with my family....slightly awkward. Then i had to start shopping and packing all my stuff to move to Nottingham to go to University. Once all this was done i had a family meal to say goodbye to all my love ones before leaving Birmingham. 20th September saw the moving day where i had to put all my stuff in the car and move to Nottingham, it was scary, sad and so exciting. I got to Nottingham unpacked all my stuff and said goodbye to my parents which in turn created a lot of tears. It was also my first night of freshers where i went to a beach party with two of my flatmates in beach wear, we also met 4 lovely people who ended up being the flat across from us, people who are now our closest friends. Freshers was amazing, don't get me wrong i didn't handle it well, i had lots of homesickness, nights were the flat stayed in and watched films instead of drinking and times where we had to go to McDonalds for ice-cream to comfort ourselves. October was the month where i returned home for the first time to see all my family and friends for the weekend. I loved visiting everyone because it had been a month since leaving everyone behind, i got to catch up on gossip and got spilt by my parents. I did return the following weekend though as my baby niece had been born so i wanted to meet her for the first time. It was the most special part of the year meeting her for the first time, she was so perfect. Leaving her to return to Nottingham was horrible. October was also the month where my year and a half long relationship ended. December was the month in which i came home from Nottingham for Christmas for the month, i visited my old school to help out with their christmas show which was 'Frozen'. It was great going back to the old cast and seeing everyone but it was horrible not being a part of the actual show and just being backstage. Been an Frozen enthusiast myself seeing the show was great and i knew all the words, naturally. Here were up to modern day where i am currently spending time with my family for christmas. That was my year. I only spoke about the good things mainly because looking back on the year i can only think about the negatives and i really wanted to look back and write about the good things that happened. This year i have changed o much in the fact i am more confident and independent. I have lost friends and gained friends. Lost and gained family. Hope you all have a good New Year and great Christmas.
Last but not least are three palettes which i have loved the past few weeks. The Revolution palette in Hot Smoked £6, The Revolution RUN BOY RUN palette £8 and the MUA £4 Twelfth Night palette are my favourites for december. They are available for super drug. The three palettes are great quality, very cheap and last all day. The eyeshadows themselves are great colours and easily transferable to the eyelid, the last all day and are no powdery in the way that they cover your cheeks when applied.
The colours range from natural looks to glamorous and going out. I highly recommend Revolution and MUA as makeup brands as they may be very cheap but they do not cut out on quality. I love using these brands, i have two friends who study in makeup and they both use the makeup brands themselves. As a student these prices are great and i have over 7 different MUA palettes which i use extensively. Over the last few years i have had my fair share of friendships, some formed by school and some even from the internet. From these experiences i have gotten to understand the true meaning of friendship. Now that i am 18 i feel as if the friends that i have now are the friends who will hopefully be around for years to come, plus moving to Nottingham has reassured me on which friends want to be apart of my life.
Throughout school i had a large friendship group which was mainly glued together with relationships, when the relationships failed and we all left for sixth forms, colleges and apprenterships the group fell apart leaving just a few of us friends. Outside of that friendship group i had friends whom i had grown up with, people who i did not see on a day to day basis but i always felt as if they were truly there for me when i needed them. The friends who i drifted from to of the group i still see frequenlty and when i speak to them it's as if no time has passed. Just because you don't see or speak to somebody for ages doesn't mean you become strangers. The strangest part of my friends were the ones who i had met through being a 'One Direction Fan' (Directioner), these were the friends who i had never met and who ultimately understood my crazier side. However, one of these fellow fans has become one of my best friends. Callie is a girl who i met four years ago on Twitter with the intension of talking about Harry Styles' hair and Nialls accent etc... but Callie soon became somebody who i spoke to everyday about everyday life. We eventually met in London, then spend half terms at each others homes and saw One Direction together in London. This friendship came much later than all my other close friendships and also came out of nowhere but i can honestly say she is one of my two best friends. Friendship in my eyes should not be passed off, people shouldn't stick to somebody as a friend just because they've known them a long time or because they see them a lot but friendship should be about trust and fun. The willingness to be able to speak to them whenever and about anything. I have lost a lot of friends from back home since moving to Nottingham because i got to realise who was and wasn't willing to come a visit me, who was and wasn't texting me and calling me to see if i was ok and settled. University has allowed me to meet new people, people sharing the same experiences as me; allowing me to be around people who i wouldn't normally be friends with and people who are so much like my family and friends at home it enlightens me. Friendship in my eyes can come from anywhere, never give up the opportunity to make new friends, never give up on the opportunity to make friends with somebody whom has different interests to you. My two best friends, one is so alike me its scary and the other is so different to me in terms of what we like in music and how we socialise and live but we are the closest you can become as friends. If i were to give advice to people about making friends is 'Keep an open mind, Don't judge people at first glance and if you loose a friend then don't worry about it because if they valued your friendship the same as you do you wouldn't be loosing them' Last friday i went to the Birmingham Royal Ballet with my mum and dad to see The Nutcracker. It was truly amazing. Ever since i was a little girl i have always enjoyed going to the theatre, watching musicals and Ballet. I guess that's where my love of performing came from, aspiring to be like the stars i watched on the stage. The story of The Nutcracker is about a young girl, aspiring ballet dancer, who at night goes to her christmas tree to play with a toy given to her by a magician. She then shrunk to the size of her toys under the tree, where she, the nutcracker and her toys perform for her and defeat the evil Rat King.
The dancing was beautiful. As a dancer myself i couldn't help watch the detailed choreography, the delicate footwork. The dancers were majestic, stunning, making myself feel overly festive and warm. Each scene was amazing in telling the story through the movement of dance. As always the show made me want to rethink my outlook on my career, making me want to drop out of University and become a broadway star (which is impossible). Spending this experience with my parents made it more special as they are huge Ballet fans. I was around people who appreciated the dancing, who could understand the beautiful christmas story just through the movement they saw before their eyes. I felt truly blessed. Once again The Birmingham Royal Ballet out performed themselves. A great night out, An amazing performance and i highly recommend the show to everyone.
|
AuthorLeah Higgins, 19. If you can dream it, you can do it Archives
March 2016
|