Life of H

Living in student accommodation means decorating you room and house are generally kept to a minimum. You work with what you've got. At the beginning of the term, visiting everyone's houses and being nosy was great fun. You got to check out their house and see what they did with their space.   For me, my room is my space, somewhere where I can chill out and have moments where I can escape and relax. I thought I would share what I'd done with my room, although it's most likely not going to stay like this for long

A Few days ago I posted about my trip to Castle Howard, sharing some of the photos from my trip of the interior of the Castle. I thought I would also do a separate post of the grounds, which was equally as beautiful. For the majority of the day, the weather wasn't great, living up to 'typical English weather' conditions, However later into the afternoon the sun came out to play, creating a beautiful sunset and evening, even if it was a rather chilly one. 

Just before coming home for Christmas, myself and a friend, took a trip to the beautiful Castle Howard. Although the weather wasn't great, it was a wonderful way to get into the festive spirit. Both the grounds and the house has been decked out for Christmas with and endless number of Christmas Trees to marvel at, alongside the remarkable exterior and interior of the Castle.

Over the festive period and into the New Year, everyone changes things up, tries something new or simple keep on to their staple favourites. These are some of the few things I have been loving this January as we kick off the New Year. 

I cannot express how much I have enjoyed living and being apart of a student community. My entire experience over the last term has been overwhelming, the independence, the people. the course, the list could go on and a large part of it is down to where I am living.  There is nothing worse then disliking where you are living, so picking University accommodation is a huge thing. For the majority most people are content and loving their uni life, their flat and who they are surrounded with but how do you know what is going to suit you. Filling out the application form can be confusing, what are you willing to compromise and where should  you even start looking.  For myself I attend the University of York, a collegiate university. Something which doesn't seem as important as it did within freshers as we battle out with chants against other colleges along the bus to events and into town.  For myself my college plays a massive part of my Uni life, I feel it brings ...

Between the Christmas and New Year period, I travelled up to the Big City, to visit some friends from Uni and explore London, like proper tourists, from wondering around Museums, and staring at paintings from Monet and Van Gogh, to pondering around little markets and taking pictures o popular tourist spots it was a good day out, with a lot of laughs and very tired feet.

One of the most common questions among, myself and my friends is, what do I take to university? It's the first time we really need to think about what we actually need to live with, like kitchen and bedroom supplies.  Then I am one of those people who feel like I am going to over pack, I don't want to turn up with, things I am not going to need however I also do not want to turn up with not enough, so over the last few days I have been compiling lists (more lists) of the basic uni essentials to take with you. I do not think it is necessarily important for you to take up the entire contents of IKEA's kitchen range or 20 cushions for your bed. Although touches like that can immediately make you feel more homely. Also a trip shopping for those extra bits, when you get there, This could be a good ice breaker and secondly you don't always know what your going to need and you might end up keeping spare items in a box.  I am lucky enough to be in catered accommodation,...

Over the past couple of years, I have been lucky enough to experience a wide variety of things and visit places and do things I have never done before. While living in Spain has given my a great opportunity, it has resulted in a fair few flights back to the UK. While there have been plenty of other flights and visits to other countries.

It's been a couple of weeks since that nail biting few days of result time and thankfully I had gotten into my first choice university! (I apologise to my parents profusely for the hormonal mood swings over  that time) Since then I have been full of excitement, anticipation and nervs. In preparation to pull my life together and sort it out before I move in a few weeks, I've found I have been surrounded by never ending lists; shopping lists, enrolment lists, packing lists, reading lists and it goes on. So I thought I would compile my own list of the things I feel will make the move a little bit easier, with less things to work out when I get there, which means more time for freshers and fun.

This time two years ago, I was getting ready to move abroad. I had lived in England for 16 years, my entire life. The thought of moving to somewhere new, was excitedly terrifying and being a teenager I was 100% determined I was staying, in the place I knew and with the people I loved.